From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye. (Jerry Coleman)
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please. (Edmund Spenser)
How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his precepts O 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. (Benjamin Franklin)
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. (Vaclav Havel)
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. (Orson Scott Card)
To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice. (Ambrose Bierce)
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself. (Jacob Bigelow)
If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul. (Logan Pearsall Smith)
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. (Benjamin Franklin)
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books (Thomas Carlyle)
Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people. (Thomas Davidson)
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it. (Benjamin Franklin)
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras. (Tom Nolan)
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. (W. C. Fields)
Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all. (Matthew Arnold)
Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening. (Jerry Coleman)
Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. (Saint Augustine)
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life it goes on. (Robert Frost)