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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ~Salvador Dali


Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. ~Pubilius Syrus


Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices. ~Shana Alexander


Embalm, v.: To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus. ~Ambrose Bierce


Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. ~Judith Viorst


Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. ~Friederich Nietzsche


If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. ~Edward O. Wilson


Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. ~John Lahr


No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism


Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ~Gordon R. Dickson


So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. ~Alexandre Dumas, fils


Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau


We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. ~Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," 1967


No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson


America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness. ~Aurora Raigne


Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? ~Lynn Hecht Schafren


Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. ~Lemony Snicket


He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. ~Arabian Proverb


Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. ~Allen Tate