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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

~Thomas Jefferson~

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.


Lou Holtz

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In summer, the song sings itself

~William Carlos Williams~

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“History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes”

Mark Twain

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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.


Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”



Jamie Paolinetti

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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

~Mark Twain~

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“Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.”


Cher :bow:

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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

~Frank Lloyd Wright~

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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.


Carl Sandburg

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Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

~William Powell~

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“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.”

Soren Kierkegaard (poor guy:cry:

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

~George Bernard Shaw~

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“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others”


Oscar Wilde

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If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

~Dalai Lama~

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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.


Maya Angelou

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“We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.”


Bill Vaughn

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“Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!”

Minnie Pearl

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If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

~Nelson Mandela~

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“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”

Peter Ustinov

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As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

~Henry Van Dyke~

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There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.


Jerome Bruner

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

~Marshall McLuhan~

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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.


Victor Hugo

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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

~Percy Bysshe Shelley~

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“Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."


Dave Barry :cheesy:

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"If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party."


Ronald Reagan

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“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”

Allen Ginsberg

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'The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.'

Hubert H. Humphrey

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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.


George Bernard Shaw

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

~Gilbert K. Chesterton~

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God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.


Farrah Fawcett (RIP)

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I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

~Rodney Dangerfield~

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“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”


Og Mandino

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“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake...”

Francis Bacon, Sr.

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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Voltaire

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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.


Albert Einstein :heart:

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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Richard Bach

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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.


Thomas A. Edison

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso