Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith. ~Author Unknown
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ~Albert Einstein, in The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ~Washington Irving
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ~Samuel Butler, "Prose Observations"
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. ~George Patton
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ~W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788
I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. ~Rosa Parks
You need special shoes for hiking - and a bit of a special soul as well. ~Terri Guillemets
Erratum: an act or thought that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true; an error in printing or writing, especially such an error noted in a list of corrections and bound into a book; plural is errata.
In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. ~Orson Welles
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. ~Samuel Johnson
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
Cheerleaders are simply a jump above the rest. ~Author Unknown
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase. ~E.B. White, "Hot Weather," One Man's Meat, 1944
Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, the fork years behind, how many have thought to pull up on the shoulder and leave the car empty, strike out across the fields; and how many are still mazed among dock and thistle, seeking the road they should have taken? ~Damon Knight, The Man in the Tree
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. ~Orson Welles
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ~Marie Stopes
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ~Kin Hubbard
