My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image, 1

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

Brian Ferneyhough

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.

Bible

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Groucho Marx

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.

Andre Breton, Surrealist Manifes

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

Source Unknown

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Which of the Himalayas is the shortest?

Steven Wright

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

Fred Thompson

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

William Shakespeare