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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires



Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin



A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. ~S.N. Behrman



The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. ~C.E.M. Joad



History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious. ~Paul Valery, Regards sur le Monde Actuel



I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ~Douglas Adams



All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954



Rule #2: It's all small stuff.



Wine is sunlight, held together by water. ~Galileo



If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first. ~Arthur Weigall



A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. ~Charles Lamb, "Popular Fallacies: That the Worst Puns are the Best," Last Essays of Elia, 1833



If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow. ~Author Unknown



No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. ~George MacDonald



"That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did." ~J.K. Rowling, "The Missing Mirror," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007



Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ~H.G. Wells



Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of the heavens. ~Sepal Felicivant



I'm not funny. What I am is brave. ~Lucille Ball



The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart. ~Author Unknown



Platonic love is love from the neck up. ~Thyra Smater Winsolow



It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless. ~Charles Simmons