Month: March 2011

  • The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ~ W. H. Auden

  • Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~ Usman B. Asif

  • God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

  • At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

  • Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.  Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it.  Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it.  Bitterness sickens life; love heals it.  Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

  • It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ~ Anatole France

  • I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

  • Life comes with an expiration date.

  • Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. ~ Raymond Mortimer    ++

  • Everyone who ever walked barefoot into his child’s room late at night hates Lego’s.  ~  Tony Kornheiser

  • Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome. ~ Oscar Levant

  • The trouble with a kitten is that it eventually becomes a cat. ~ Ogden Nash

  • Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. ~ Laurence J. Peter

  • The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. ~ Mark Twain

  • Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. ~ Henry David Thoreau

  • In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ~ Akiro Kurosawa

  • Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase…the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. ~ Frank Herbert, “Dune”

  • Nothing endures but change. ~ Heraclitus

  • I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ~ Katherine Kurtz

  • Never buy a portable TV set on the sidewalk from a man who’s out of breath.

  • It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.  I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. ~ Ronald Reagan  ++

  • The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program. ~ Ronald Reagan

  • There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. ~ Mother Teresa

  • Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. ~ H.L. Mencken

  • One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to Hell without perspiring. ~ H.L. Mencken