A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. ~Samuel Johnson
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed. ~Saint Augustine
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. ~Hafez
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. ~Fred Hoyle, Of Man and Galaxies
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. ~William Congreve
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ~Robert Peel
If you don't control your mind, someone else will. ~John Allston
When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose. ~Printers' Ink, 27 May 1915
Truth is no Doctoresse, she takes no degrees at Paris or Oxford... but oftentimes to such an one as myself, an Idiota or common person, no great things, melancholizing in woods where waters are, quiet places by rivers, fountains, whereas the silly man expecting no such matter, thinketh only how best to delectate and refresh his mynde continually with Natura her pleasaunt scenes, woods, water-falls, or Art her statelie gardens, parks, terraces, Belvideres, on a sudden the goddesse herself Truth has appeared, with a shyning lyghte, and a sparklyng countenance, so as yee may not be able lightly to resist her. ~Charles Lamb
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. ~Thomas Jefferson
Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere! ~Author unknown, as seen on a shirt
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all. ~Vachel Lindsay
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ~Maya Angelou
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. ~Thomas Sowell
I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The hair is the richest ornament of women. ~Martin Luther
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ~Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur
It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can't stop and catch our breath, we can't roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can't ask for a substitution. ~Dusty Hicks