We never repent of having eaten too little. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1825
It's about ten times the size of the Bible - and unlike the Bible, contains no good news. ~Don Nickles, about the Internal Revenue Code
If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course? ~Larry Nelson
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ~Voltaire
It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers. ~William Galvin
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~James Bryce
Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions. ~Benjamin Stillingfleet
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. ~Voltaire
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ~Napoleon I, Maxims
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. ~Diane Sawyer
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~Fred Allen
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer. ~Dale Carnegie
It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Unknown author, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ~Oscar Wilde
Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks. ~Author Unknown
It proves nothing. Must things be proved in order to be painful or pleasant? They need only be felt. ~"The Manuscript"
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina. ~H.L. Mencken
Skip like the wind! ~Author Unknown
Some defeats are more triumphant than victories. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588
It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. ~Samuel Butler
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window. ~Jules Renard, Journal, 1906
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