Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? ~Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. ~Samuel Johnson
People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. ~William Shakespeare
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. ~Seneca
The best way to stop smoking is to just stop - no ifs, ands or butts. ~Edith Zittler
If men liked shopping, they'd call it research. ~Cynthia Nelms
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. ~Samuel Johnson
Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav Mahler
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ~Gerald Brenan
All that I have seen teaches me to trust God for all I have not seen. ~Author Unknown
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were. ~Author Unknown
Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. ~Thomas Hardy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. ~Menander
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. ~Hortense Calisher, Queenie, 1971
The last birthday that's any good is 23. ~Andy Rooney
Why don't you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini? ~Robert Benchley
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