Silence is more musical than any song. ~Christina Rossetti
Sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. ~George Burns
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~Booker T. Washington
Logic is one thing and commonsense another. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car. ~Author Unknown
The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. ~Author Unknown
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. ~Gore Vidal
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. ~Henry Van Dyke
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~William James Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~William James
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. ~John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1851
The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell. ~Red Smith
In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. ~Mark Twain
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller
Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know. ~Aunt Bee Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ~Andre Gide
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her. ~Francis Thompson
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. ~Aesop, Fables
Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them. ~Author Unknown
There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure. ~Author Unknown
You know, we've got to do it someday... throw away all the guns and invite all the jokers from the North and the South in here to a cocktail party... last man standing on his feet at the end wins the war. ~Hawkeye, "Pilot Episode," 1972 You know, we've got to do it someday... throw away all the guns and invite all the jokers from the north and the south in here to a cocktail party... last man standing on his feet at the end wins the war. ~Hawkeye, "Pilot Episode," original airdate 17 September 1972, written by Larry Gelbart, directed by Gene Reynolds
God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do! ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina. ~H.L. Mencken
A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. ~Author unknown, from an editorial in New York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren
