Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese
Snow: a form of precipitation that usually occurs three weeks prior to and the morning of your departure from your ski vacation. ~Author Unknown
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells
When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match. ~Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward, Sleepless in Seattle
All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel. ~Ira Berkow
Investors have very short memories. ~Roman Abramovich
Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. ~John B. Gough
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls. ~Adlai Stevenson
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. ~Heywood Broun
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. ~Mark Twain
I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ~Lauren Bacall
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no. ~Jean Anouilh
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. ~Hugh Walpole
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. ~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. ~John Donne
If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine. ~Author Unknown
Tea...is a religion of the art of life. ~Okakura
Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born. ~Garrett Hardin
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. ~Joseph Wood Krutch
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure. ~Anna Quindlen
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. ~Jean Cocteau
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