The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel. (Logan Pearsall Smith)
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. (Max Frisch)
He fishes well who uses a golden hook. (Latin Proverb)
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. (Walter Kerr)
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. (Lao Tzu)
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. (Joan Walsh Anglund)
I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool. (William Shakespeare)
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned. (George Bernard Shaw)
The scars of others should teach us caution. (Saint Jerome)
Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience here's the place to have the experience. (Joseph Campbell)
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. (Millicent Fenwick)
Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got. (Rose Cherin)
Age is a function of mind over matter if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. (Leroy Robert Satchel Paige)
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them. (Alan B. Watts)
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. (Lily Tomlin)
Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check. (M. C. Escher)
Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with. (American Proverb)
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Look twice before you leap. (Charlotte Bronte)