The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal. (Lao Tzu)
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport. (Vince Lombardi)
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. (Cornelius Tacitus)
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. (Charles Hendrickson Brower)
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. (Ellen DeGeneres)
Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen. (Anonymous)
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. (William Shakespeare)
For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. (Frantz Fanos)
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. (Bob Dylan)
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. (F Scott)
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. (Bennett Alfred Cerf)
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race. (Henry G. Stott)
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. (Giacomo Leopardi)
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. (Aretha Franklin)
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. (Emma Goldman)
Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much. (Alfred Stuart, Jr.)
Writing only leads to more writing. (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)
I think there probably should be a rule that if you're talking about how many loaves of bread a bullet will go through, it's understood that you mean lengthwise loaves. Otherwise, it makes no sense. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. (Douglas Noel Adams)