Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.
Nonnee Coan
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats
When I dream, I am ageless.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
I thought so hard I got a headache.
J.D. Cobb
Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
Curtis LeMay
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
William Cobbett
It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.
It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world
Oscar Wilde
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
George W. Bush
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Plato
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
Our hope, and it's a sad hope, is that... well, I mean we need a tip. That's why we have such a big reward. We just hope that someone is holding her for her child and that we can, you know, get her back with a tip.
Scott Peterson
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered
Virginia Woolf
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.
Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur
Samuel Johnson
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but something to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
Richard Cobden
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Stephen Hawking
Hearts are breakable, but even when you heal, you're never what you were before.
Cassandra Clare
Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
You can't trust the internet.
Nicolette Sheridan
Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.
Alexander Cockburn
Stay Whlemed.
Robin
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.
Robert Sternberg
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.
A just war is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
Christopher Hitchens
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.
I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.
Georgie Fame
Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.
Claud Cockburn
When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.
Birdy
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
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