I love America. It's Americans I can't stand. ~Attributed to both Charles Shultz and Bill Maher
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ~Francis Bacon
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. ~Joseph Wood Krutch
Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it - with their life. ~John Wooden Legs, "Back on the War Ponies," 1960, quoted in We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May and Clint Willis
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. ~James Russell Lowell
You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God. ~Author Unknown
A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~M*A*S*H, Father Mulcahy, "A Holy Mess," 1982
I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer. ~Jack Smith
There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. ~Joseph Conrad
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~Mark Twain
He who excuses himself accuses himself. ~Gabriel Meurier, Tresor des sentences
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch
A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter X "The Leech and His Patient"
Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea. ~Author Unknown
The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. ~Howard Aiken
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five. ~Martin H. Fischer
In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball. ~Gene Perret
Vanity is the quicksand of reason ~George Sand
The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All
Never wear anything that panics the cat. ~P.J. O'Rourke
