The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. ~Eugene Ionesco
My whole heart for my whole life. ~French saying used on poesy rings
The power inside you is energy amplified. ~Claire Todae
Men who never get carried away should be. ~Malcolm Forbes
I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy - make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls. ~John Kerry
Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588
Happiness is sharing a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry with a shade tree. He doesn't eat much and doesn't read much, but listens well and is a most gracious host. ~Astrid Alauda
Life is God's novel. Let him write it. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. ~Pablo Picasso
Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~Thomas Fuller
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. ~Colette
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value. ~Ralph Nader
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness. ~Voltaire
I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing. ~Tori Amos
The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong. ~Nevin Fenneman
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. ~Florence Scovel Shinn
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. ~Mickey Mantle, 1970
It's like being hit up the arse by a rainbow. ~Rod Eddington, about being lucky
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