The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

Here is the same clock that walked quietly Through those enormous years I half recall,When between one blue summer and anotherTime seemed as many miles as round the world,And world a day, a moment or a mile,Or a sweet slope of grass edged with the sea,Or a new song to sing, or a tree dressed in gold

Judith Wright, The Moving Image,

If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.

Kin Hubbard

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

Gary Bauer

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Helen Macinness

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

Peggy Noonan

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and c

Albert Einstein

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

Chuck Palahniuk

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

Jimmy Reed

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Matthew Arnold

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Oscar Wilde