Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. (Horace)
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. (George Bernard Shaw)
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life. (Diane Wakoski)
Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it. (Anonymous)
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. (Henry Spencer)
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one. (Abraham Lincoln)
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. (Wilson Mizner)
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did. (James Arthur Baldwin)
I think a good movie would be about a guy who's a brain scientist, but he gets hit on the head and it damages the part of the brain that makes you want to study the brain. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
It is better to understand little than to understand a lot. (Anatole France)
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. (Gilbert K. Chesterton)
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'. (William Shakespeare)
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes. (Douglas Noel Adams)
When a thing is new, people say 'It is not true.' Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say 'It is not important.' Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say 'Anyway, it is not new.' (William James)
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. (Alice Walker)
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. (Andr Gide)
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. (G. K. Chesterton)
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. (Thomas Fuller)
May you always live in interesting times. (Chinese Curse)
Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. (Black Hawk)