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The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 7 July 1763



Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. ~Max Frisch



One almost expects one of the players to peer into the monitor and politely request viewers to refrain from munching so loudly on cheese and crackers while the golfers are trying to reach the greens. ~Pete Alfano



Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin



A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. ~Havelock Ellis



Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye



Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners. ~George du Maurier



For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? ~Kahlil Gibran, from "The Prophet"



If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ~Mahatma Gandhi



If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. ~Robert Quillen



Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving evidence of the fact. ~George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, 1879



A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world. ~Charles and Ann Morse



Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial. ~Seneca



Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. ~Peter Saint James



Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization. ~W.E.B. DuBois



The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton



Fate laughs at probabilities. ~E.G. Bulwer-Lytton



No man can follow Christ and go astray. ~William H.P. Faunce



To some, the cigarette is a portable therapist. ~Terri Guillemets



If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. ~Paul McCartney