I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. (Camille Paglia)
A snake deserves no pity. (Yiddish Proverb)
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. (Joseph Addison)
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. (Larry Gelbart)
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. (James Reston)
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight. (Martin Luther)
He's a real loser. He moved into a new neighborhood and got run over by the Welcome Wagon. (Red Buttons)
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. (Francis Bacon)
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. (Rabbi H. Schachtel)
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man. (Laertius Diogenes)
All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.' (Mickey Lolich)
If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice (Neil Peart)
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. (Brendan Francis)
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. (Agatha Christie)
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. (Pierre Bayle)
An optimist is the human personification of spring. (Susan J. Bissonette)