If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine. ~Author Unknown
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. ~Calvin Coolidge We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. ~Calvin Coolidge
Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him. ~Colonel Potter
History is the story of events, with praise or blame. ~Cotton Mather
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. ~Rupert Brooke
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."
To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump. ~Geoffrey Boycott, 1989, how a cricket batsman feels when facing a fast bowler
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"
The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap. ~Author Unknown
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation. ~Louis Fabian Bachrach
The smart cat doesn't let on that he is. ~H.G. Frommer
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein
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Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956 Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. ~Ellen Glasgow
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. ~John Steinbeck, America and Americans
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match. ~Steve Sax
Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." ~Bill Maher, on Politically Incorrect, 1995
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