Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
The last birthday that's any good is 23. ~Andy Rooney
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ~Author Unknown
The safest risk is the one you didn't take. ~Author Unknown
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ~Samuel Johnson
I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. ~F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace
In war, truth is the first casualty. ~Aeschylus (Thanks, Dan)
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. ~Gilbert Highet
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. ~Robert Fulghum
Never cry over spilt milk. It could've been whiskey. ~"Pappy" Maverick, in Maverick Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ~Edmund Burke
Me and ice cream. Best friends forever. ~Jessi Lane Adams
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. ~Dylan Thomas, letter to Vernon Watkins, March 1938
Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Guatemalan Proverb
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen
Ruin and recovery are both from within. ~Epictetus
When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it. ~French Proverb
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. ~Henry David Thoreau
Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football. ~S.A. Sachs
