I get up and a button falls off, I pick up my briefcase and the handle falls off I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly

Bertrand Russell

Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD.

Jerry Bruckheimer

She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it.

Mary S. Almanac

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Mark Twain

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Doris Lessing

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness... The only food at the Hotel X which was ever prepared cleanly was the staff's.

George Orwell

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

Anon.

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

Hugh Laurie

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.

Ernest Istook

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that. If a businessman does not strictly obey the orders of the public as they are conveyed to him by the structure of market prices, he suffers losses, he goes bankrupt, and is thus removed from his eminent position at the helm. Other men who did better in satisfying the demand of the consumers replace him.The consumers patronize those shops in which they can buy what they want at the cheapest price. Their buying and their abstention from buying decides who should own and run the plants and the farms. They make poor people rich and rich people poor. They determine precisely what should be produced, in what quality, and in what quantities. They are merciless bosses, full of whims and fancies, changeable and unpredictable. For them nothing counts other than their own satisfaction. They do not care a whit for past merit and vested interests. If something is offered to them that they like better or that is cheaper, they desert their old purveyors. In their capacity as buyers and consumers they are hard-hearted and callous, without consideration for other people.http://www.mises.org/humanaction.asp

Ludwig von Mises, Human Action,

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Jane Austen

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Publilius Syrus