I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. ~Job 29:14-15
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. ~Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. ~Author Unknown
Walking isn't a lost art - one must, by some means, get to the garage. ~Evan Esar
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. ~Doug Larson
It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office. ~Shirley MacLaine
I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. ~John Updike
Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. ~Elbert Hubbard
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers
Vanity is the quicksand of reason ~George Sand
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. ~Lord Byron
Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. ~Author Unknown
If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline... ~Abraham J. Heschel
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ~Harold Ross
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. ~Albert Camus
Television keeps the masses occupied. What if everyone decided they wanted to make something of their lives? Television keeps the competition down and keeps more criminals off the street. What if everyone decided to go to law school or medical school? It would sure make it tough on the rest of us. ~Jim Urbanovich