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Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, "You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers." ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50


There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ~J. Robert Oppenheimer


My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. ~Terri Guillemets


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana


A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. ~Puzant Kevork Thomajan


Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims


Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. ~James Russell Lowell


Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw


Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Yoga is bodily gospel. ~Reaven Fields


Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ~Jane Austen


I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more. ~Franklin Knight Lane


Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858


I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul. ~Mary Ellen Mark


Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ~Thornton Wilder


Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~Oprah Winfrey


A canter is a cure for every evil. ~Benjamin Disraeli


Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~Charles Richards


Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"


Pretty is the queen that rules our land. ~Carrie Latet

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In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~Terri Guillemets


Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. ~William Henley


Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ~William McFee


The first cup moistens my lips and throat. The second cup breaks my loneliness. The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs. The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration - all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores. At the fifth cup I am purified. The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup - ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither. ~Lu Tung, "Tea-Drinking"


Safety never takes a holiday. ~Author Unknown


Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball. ~Pete Hamill


When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do. ~Darryl Dawkins


Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein


A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. ~Robert Frost


You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter


In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western. ~John Reader, Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man


Chlorine is my perfume. ~Author Unknown


It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. ~Author Unknown


Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. ~Norman Cousins


There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist. ~G.C. Lichtenberg


Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay


History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass. ~Frederic Harrison, The Meaning of History History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. ~Thomas Carlyle


Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. ~John Moffat


It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. ~Proverbs 21:9

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No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul. ~Bruce McCall, "The Case Against Golf," Esquire


You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown


There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. ~Boy George


Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. ~E.M. Forester


Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ~Alan Coren


Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. ~Mark Twain


Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless. ~Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth


It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt. ~Abraham Lincoln


The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. ~Arabian Proverb


Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Respecting yourself means listening to your body and emotions continuously. Then acting beyond a linear logic to achieve ones goals. ~Author Unknown


If the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~Mencius


People who love cats have some of the biggest hearts around. ~Susan Easterly


Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence. ~Astrid Alauda


We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. ~Paul Harvey


Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana


Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! ~Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ~Andre Gide, Journals, 1894


A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. ~Ralph Nader


May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. ~Irish Blessing


Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ~Romans 12:21


Never is a long, long word, but it's less frustrating than "God knows when." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it. ~Abraham Lincoln


In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours. ~John Milton


The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. ~William Westmoreland


You can't take something off the Internet - it's like taking pee out of a pool. ~Author Unknown, 1995


People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ~Ogden Nash


Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. ~Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica


One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself. ~Betsy Cohen


It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~Machiavelli


A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958


It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951


An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ~Aldous Huxley


Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will


No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one. ~George F. Nordenhold


It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob Bronowski


Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb

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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


How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. ~William James


Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished. ~Michael Strassfeld


El tiempo da buen consejo. ~Proverb


He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb


A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. ~Francis O'Walsh


I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. ~Lord Dunsany


Men are only as loyal as their options. ~Bill Maher


Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ~William James


Stress is poison. ~Agave Powers


Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine. ~James Poland


No man's credit is as good as his money. ~E.W. Howe, Sinner Sermons


Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. ~Denis Waitley Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise. ~Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism


Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. ~Daniel Berrigan


So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne


God's glowing covenant. ~Hosea Ballou (rainbow)


Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history. ~Woodrow Wilson


They that are born on Halloween shall see more than other folk. ~Saying of unknown origin

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. ~David Ogilvy


Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cell phone, cable TV, and French manicured fingernails.... We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining. ~Charlie Diekatze


Life is one long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler


Everything's got a moral if only you can find it. ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland


There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. ~Ramana Maharshi, attributed


Time is the longest distance between two places. ~Tennessee Williams


The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial. ~Alban Goodier


Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ~Elise Boulding


Her face was her chaperone. ~Rupert Hughes


Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ~Chuang Tzu I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. ~Vaslav Nijinsky


Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Boys are beyond the range of anyone's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. ~James Thurber Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard


Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown


Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! ~Louisa May Alcott


Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb, sometimes attributed to William C. Hazlitt


Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ~John F. Kennedy

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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye


Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. ~Judith Olney


Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. ~Sam Levenson


I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. ~Sylvia Plath


Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations. ~Martin Terman


A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. ~Author Unknown


If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. ~Ursula Le Guin


No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. ~Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995


The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal. ~Astrid Alauda


Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book


In union there is strength. ~Aesop


Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters. ~Ik Marvel Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverb


Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. ~Vinton Cerf


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In an early class, one of the students asked me if I believed in God. I replied, 'I don't think so.' And then proceeded to wail on the theme, using material from this column of some weeks ago, in which I observed the perpetuation of insanity on this planet through the mediums of Arabs-vs-Jews, Catholics-vs-Protestants, Southern Baptists-vs-Everyone. I said I felt if 'God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he them,' (Genesis 2:27, King James's italics, not mine) then we were God. And when Man (my capitalization, not King James's) in his most creative, his most loving, his most gentle and most human, then he is most God-like. The student said he would pray for my immortal soul. He also asked for my address, so he could send me some literature on the subject of God. I thanked him politely and told him I'd gotten all the literature I could handle on the subject from a certain Thomas Aquinas. ~Harlan Ellison


The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. ~Holbrook Jackson


When you gamble with safety, you bet your life. ~Author Unknown


No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. ~George Carlin

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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. ~John Muir, letter to J.B. McChesney, 19 September 1871


I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


Boys are beyond the range of anyone's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. ~James Thurber Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard


Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. ~John Wesley


One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. ~M.M. Musselman


Pleasure is the bait of sin. ~Plato


I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Time flies on restless pinions - constant never. ~Friedrich Schiller


As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


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The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963


Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow. ~Author Unknown


Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. ~Murphy's Law


It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling. ~Mark Twain


It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. ~Author Unknown


It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob Bronowski


I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott


Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949

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There are couples a matchmaker would match every time - and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves. ~Thomas Wolfe


I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice. ~Kurt Rambis, on drug testing


Philo began laying out his vision for what television could become. Above all else... television would become the world's greatest teaching tool. Illiteracy would be wiped out. The immediacy of television was the key. As news happened viewers would watch it unfold live; no longer would we have to rely on people interpreting and distorting the news for us. We would be watching sporting events and symphony orchestras. Instead of going to the movies, the movies would come to us. Television would also bring about world peace. If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings? War would be a thing of the past. ~Evan I. Schwartz, The Last Lone Inventor, about Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television


In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again.... We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. ~Enid Bagnold, Autobiography, 1969


All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. ~Sidney Lumet


We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. ~L'Estrange


For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be no sur-cease to his Agony till he sink in Dissolution. Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final Punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever and aye. ~Curse Against Book Stealers, Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona


The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. ~Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871


The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. ~Author Unknown


Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. ~CoCo Chanel


It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - "voluntarily" sell - himself every day and hour to the "beast of property." ~Johann Most, The Beast of Property


Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown


You might be a firefighter if "climbing the corporate ladder" has nothing to do with career advancement. ~Author Unknown


Quote A: �Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.� ~John Perry Barlow


I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. ~Bernard Manning


Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti


You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ~James D. Miles


It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner


Clearly, God is a Democrat. ~Patrick Caddell