But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. (Alan B. Watts)
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. (Kahlil Gibran)
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. (Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. (H. Jackson Browne)
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. (Ford Maddox)
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age. (Henry David Thoreau)
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. (Norman O. Brown)
My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober. (G. K. Chesterton)
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. (Pliny the Younger)
It is not length of life, but depth of life. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth. (Samuel Butler)
There is always something new out of Africa. (Pliny the Elder)
No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
All phone calls are obscene. (Karen Elizabeth Gordon)
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln)
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. (Edmund Burke)
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. (Cicero)
There is no virtue in being uncritical nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics. (Richard Livingstone)
Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself. (Shannon Miller)
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences. (Eugene Kennedy)