Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Mae West

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no reason for beauty. It just is.

Erin Kellison

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Nelson Algren

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

Source Unknown

And if tonight my soul may find her peacein sleep, and sink in good oblivion,and in the morning wake like a new-opened flowerthen I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Karl Marx

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

Marilyn Monroe

Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

William James, Principles of Psy

What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.

Joseph Conrad

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Dave Barry