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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ~Don Marquis



It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. ~Mark Twain



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Thank you for Not Smoking. Cigarette smoke is the residue of your pleasure. It contaminates the air, pollutes my hair and clothes, not to mention my lungs. This takes place without my consent. I have a pleasure, also. I like a beer now and then. The residue of my pleasure is urine. Would you be annoyed if I stood on a chair and pissed on your head and your clothes without your consent? ~Sign from Ken's Magic Shop



It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle



Problems are messages. ~Shakti Gawain



We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. ~Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939



The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. ~Joel Hildebrand



Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her. ~Val Doonican



To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951



It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb



Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. ~Jonathan Swift



I'm so poor I can't even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle, 1987



If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 3



Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ~George Jean Nathan



The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system. ~Robert C. Peale



There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ~G.K. Chesterton



Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads - at the extreme opposite end of our bodies. ~Levende Waters



Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827