After dinner, rest after dinner walk a mile. --Arab Proverb

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. --

Russell Wayne Baker

I hold it true,what'er befallI feel it, when I sorrow most' Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. --Alfred Lord Tennyson

We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. --Benjamin Franklin

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. --

Nelson Algren

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. --Han Suyin

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. --Nora Roberts

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places. --Samuel Butler

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. --C. D. Jackson

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. --Steven Wright

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. --John Howard Payne

I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school you feel you've achieved something when you haven't. --

Dodie Smith

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. --Barber B. Conable, Jr

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war. --William Shakespeare

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. --Paul Fussell

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. --H.L. Mencken

Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. --Socrates

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking. --Phaedrus

Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check. --M. C. Escher

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. --Robert A. Heinlein

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny. --Tennessee Williams

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. --Chinese Proverb

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. --Marilyn vos Savant

There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. --Plato

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. --Tom Stoppard

Nineties style isn't. --David Borenstein

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet --Lily Tomlin

Never take counsel of your fears. --General Thomas Jonathon Stonewall Jackson

Tis the good reader that makes the good book. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no love lost between us. --Miguel de Cervantes

Where there is love there is life. --Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. --Albert Camus

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation-and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. --

Robert Francis Kennedy

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present. --Lillian Eichler Watson

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears. --Rob Brown

Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough --William Shakespeare

There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money

somewhere else. --Sam Walton

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. --Horace

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. --Edward W. Howe

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. --Woody Allen

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. --Leonardo DaVinci

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. --John Powell

I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart. --Alice Walker

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. --H.L. Mencken

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. --Jane Austen

You try to give away what you want yourself. --Lois McMaster Bujold

Make friends not enemies, and you will always have eyes in the back of your head. --Eric Pio

Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. --H.L. Mencken

He not busy being born is busy dying. --Bob Dylan

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. --D. H. Lawrence

As ill-luck would have it. --Miguel de Cervantes

Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. --Ruth Stout

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to

adults. --H Hahn Blavatsky

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails --Will Rogers

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. -- George Sand

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. --Muhammad Ali

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. --Kahlil Gibran

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True friendship is never serene. --Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. --Fawn M. Brodie

There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one. --James T. Farrell

The older you get the stronger the wind gets-and it's always in your face. --Jack William Nicklaus

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. --William Butler Yeats

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. --Bradley Miller

Without music life would be a mistake. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far. --Euripides

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license. --John Milton

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. --Lou Holtz

But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. --Mary Bertone

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. -- Henry Miller

Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery. --Gore Vidal

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. --Josh Billings

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does. --G. C. Lichtenberg

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. --Peter Marshall

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. --Pablo Picasso

Husbands are awkward things to deal with even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. --Mary Lorraine Buckley

My life needs a rewind erase button. --Bill Watterson

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. --Bob Hope

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. --Bergen

He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. --Heywood Brown