Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.

Source Unknown

You're not what you think you are; you're not what others think you are; you're what you think others think you are!

Source Unknown

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.

William Shakespeare

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

Joanne Harris

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

Thomas Lux

Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds, and mammalsnot to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening. Many leading men, Americans and Canadians, are doing all they can for the Conservation movement.

Theodore Roosevelt

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

Homer

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

George MacDonald

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Richard Ford

One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her you cooked it, you take it out.

Rodney Dangerfield

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Paul J. Meyer

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

Fred Allen