puppies and quotes

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. ~John Donne


He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. ~Mae West


The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. ~Frank M. Garafola


It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. ~Olin Miller


Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ~Arnold Bennett


The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670


Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ~Francis Bacon


Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. ~Ian Hay


Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. ~John Comenius, 17th century philosopher Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ~Abraham Lincoln


A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. ~Author Unknown


Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer. ~Terri Guillemets


I've often thought, if I got really hungry for a good milk shake, how much would I pay for one? People will pay a hundred dollars for a bottle of wine; to me that's not worth it. But I'm not going to say it is foolish or wrong to spend that kind of money, if that's what you want. So if a guy wants to bet twenty or thirty thousand dollars in a poker game, that is his privilege. ~Jack Binion


A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. ~Doug Linder


If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17


Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off. ~Philip Larkin


Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. ~Dorothy Day


Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ~William James


When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows. ~Rachel Houston


The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. ~Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books, 1954