We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. ~Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., address to Holt Street Baptist Church, 5 December 1955
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round. ~Karl Kraus
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. ~Stephen Vincent Benet
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. ~Art Buchwald, "Adding Insult to Injury," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ~Winston Churchill There are always three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth. ~Author Unknown
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. ~Henry David Thoreau
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. ~Mark Twain
Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. ~Brian Eno, Wired, January 1999
Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak.
All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon. ~Voltaire, Jeannot et Colin
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ~St. Bernard
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A drug is that substance which, when injected into a rat, will produce a scientific report. ~Author Unknown
Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut. ~Author Unknown
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ~Ambrose Bierce
As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., about the March on Washington in the summer of 1963, Why We Can't Wait, 1963
"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it. ~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1872
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and satins and, of course, money. ~Erica Jong
