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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.. ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It



It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ~Mark Twain



How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams



Love is blind; hate is deaf. ~Author Unknown



What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb



Ideas that escape are fast and slippery and not likely to be hunted down. ~Carrie Latet



A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. ~Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race



Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ~Norman Mailer



You may lose your most valuable property through misfortune in various ways. You may lose your house, your wife and other treasures. But of your moko, you cannot be deprived except by death. It will be your ornament and companion until your last day. ~Netana Whakaari of Waimana



Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt. ~Edna Ferber, Show Boat, 1926



Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. ~James Morrow



We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. ~Dora Winifred Black Russell



Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right. ~William Allen White (Thanks, Bob)



An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ~Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955



One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why. ~Author Unknown



Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. ~Samuel Johnson



To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ~W.J. Vogel



It is not a Justice System. It is just a system. ~Bob Enyart



His heart and his brain were utterly foreign to all vindictiveness or personal bitterness. He declared himself hotly and strongly against wrong causes, but never against men. ~London Spectator