The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. ~David Mamet
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown
Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. ~Leonardo da Vinci
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown
I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere. ~Author Unknown
You know you're an Arizona native when you take rain dances seriously. ~Skip Boyer, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993
Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands - and the rest of the year on the financial rocks. ~Sam Ewing
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? ~W.H. Auden
Nothing that is complete breathes. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ~George Eliot
Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller
A leader leads by example not by Force. ~Sun Tzu
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~Edward, Duke of Windsor, Look, 5 March 1957
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. ~E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field
A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined. ~Paul Blair, quoted in Washington Post, 22 June 1978
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. ~W.H. Auden
Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. ~Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille, 1852
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ~Attributed to George Carlin
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ~W.H. Auden
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. ~I Timothy 6:10
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere
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