The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. ~Andre Maurois
Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton
Congratulations! You're not perfect! It's ridiculous to want to be perfect anyway. But then, everybody's ridiculous sometimes, except perfect people. You know what perfect is? Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake. Perfect is never doing anything wrong - which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is boring! So you're not perfect! Wonderful! Have fun! Eat things that give you bad breath! Trip over your own shoelaces! Laugh! Let somebody else laugh at you! Perfect people never do any of those things. All they do is sit around and sip weak tea and think about how perfect they are. But they're really not one-hundred-percent perfect anyway. You should see them when they get the hiccups! Phooey! Who needs 'em? You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week. ~Stephen Manes, Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. ~Saul Alinsky
You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy. ~Melissa Etheridge, "Silent Legacy," Yes I Am, 1993
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. ~Martin Golding
The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ~G.K. Chesterton
Do you know why grandchildren are always so full of energy? They suck it out of their grandparents. ~Gene Perret
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish. ~Author Unknown
If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon. ~Doug Rader
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. ~Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft
Anybody can be good in the country. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ~Lady Bird Johnson
The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk. ~Michael Klaper
Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers. ~Sarah Vowell
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. ~H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920
What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. ~Winston Churchill
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow in his footsteps? ~Author Unknown
Why wait for the weekend to have fun ~Loesje, loesje.org
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