best quotes for 2011

Don't blame me. I voted with the majority. ~Author Unknown



Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"



Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. ~Author Unknown



We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden



Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. ~Dorothy Bryant



The bicycle will accomplish more for women's sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged. ~Author Unknown, from Demerarest's Family Magazine, 1895



If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties. ~Henry Ward Beecher



It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary



There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~Baruch Spinoza



I like my coffee strong, not lethal! ~M*A*S*H



Fashion Law: If the shoe fits, it's ugly. ~Author Unknown



An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it. ~James Michener



There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it. ~From a Charles Barkley commercial for basketball shoes, 1993



Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. ~Ivern Ball



It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ~Leon Blum



Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator. ~Richard Pratt



To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others. ~Buddha



It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com