If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane. ~Author Unknown
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown
I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese. ~Author Unknown (Thanks, Eric)
There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. ~Grover Whalen
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ~Mao Zedong
It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. ~Abraham Lincoln
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. ~John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, 1920
Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. ~Peter Finley Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Opinions, 1900
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~Edward Stanley
I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die. ~William Wiley
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. ~Elbert Hubbard
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. ~Andrew Delbanco
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ~Tony Benn
The movie The Graduate was talking about that moment in time when you have this world of possibilities, all these expectations, and you don't know who it is you're supposed to be. And you choose this one path, Mrs. Robinson, and it turns out to be bleak, but it's part of your initiation, your trial by fire. And then, by choosing the wrong path, you find your way onto the right path, but you've created this mess. Fight Club is the Nineties inverse of that: a guy who does not have a world of possibilities in front of him, he has no possibilities, he literally cannot imagine a way to change his life. ~David Fincher, director of Fight Club, interview with Gavin Smith, "Inside Out," Film Comment, Sep/Oct 1999
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Einstein
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. ~Hubert H. Humphrey
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle
Little dew-drops of celestial melody. ~Thomas Carlyle
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. ~Baltasar Gracian
The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands. ~Author Unknown