Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
Marcel Proust
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.
Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
The USA has become government by the highest bidder because USA voters do not hold politicians accountable.
Don Mashak
OZOCRACY - Watch the spectacle (or divisive, polarizing issue) we, the politicians, have created or pointed out, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. The politicians have us casting votes for them based on issues like lipsticked pigs, teen pregnancy, duplicitous social class polarization, who is the truer American, who is a homosexual, race and religion etc. while they steal us blind and violate the Public Trust. (Term is based on this scene from The Wizard of Oz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.squidoo.com%2FUSA_VOTERS_VOTE_NO_TO_GOVERNMENT_CORRUPTION_THIS_ELECTION&feature=player_embedded
I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
Hank Aaron
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson
The future comes one day at a time.
A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Diane Ackerman
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
Repeticio est mater studiorum.
Thomas Aquinas
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
James G. Cozzens
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
George Crabbe
Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.
Roger Craig
One rose says more than the dozen
Wendy Craig
You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.
Robert Crandall
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
Frederick E. Crane
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
George W. Crane
You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
Monta Crane
These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.
Adelaide Crapsey
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.
William Crashaw
Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
Cindy Crawford
I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Francis Crawford
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