The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ~Ernest Newman
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ~Mao Zedong
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. ~Josh Billings
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own. ~Alistair Cooke
The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city. ~Carl van Vechten
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. ~Rita Rudner
Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. ~Samuel Grafton
Camping: nature's way of promoting the motel industry. ~Dave Barry, Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. ~Samuel Lichtenberg
The United States has a system of taxation by confession. ~Hugo Black
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ~Charlie Parker
A lot of people are willing to give God credit, but so few ever give Him cash. ~Robert E. Harris, Laugh with the Circuit Rider
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Handwriting is autobiography. ~Carrie Latet
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. ~Lord Chesterfield
Eggs and oaths are easily broken. ~Danish Proverb
Question: " I understand that Congress is considering a so-called 'flat' tax system. How would this work?" Answer: "If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool." ~Dave Barry
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. ~William E. Simon
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do. ~E.V. Lucas
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. ~Benjamin Tucker, Instead of a Book