We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN (William Shakespeare)
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. (W. C. Fields)
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. (Dave Barry)
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart. (Phyllis Mcginley)
After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, 'Hey, old buddy, how's it going' (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you. (Billie Holiday)
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. (Robert Frost)
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. (James Russell Lowell)
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself. (Barbara Burrow)
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Charles Kingsley)
To measure the man, measure his heart. (Malcolm Stevenson Forbes)
You are perhaps the most accomplished confidence man since Charles Ponzi. I'd say you were a carnival barker, but that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. to former Enron CEO Keny Lay (Peter Fitzgerald)
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time. (Johannes Meister Eckhart)
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. (Martha Washington)
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. (William Wordsworth)
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. (National Lampoon)
The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows. (Aristotle Onassis)
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. (Mark Twain)