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tastesofhoney“Many a false step is made by standing still.”
-- fortune cookie
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“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
-- William James
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“In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.”
-- Paul Harvey
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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
-- Douglas Adams
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“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
-- Buddha
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"The beginning is always today."
-- Mary Wollstonecraft
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"The difference between truth and fiction: Fiction has to make sense."
-- Mark Twain
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"I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific."
-- Lily Tomlin
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“We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.”
-- Mark Twain
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"Older, more generous,
We give each other hope.
The gift is ominous:
Enough praise, enough rope."
-- "The Gift" for Bobby Jack Nelson
by N. Scott Momaday
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"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
-- Mae West
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"Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you."
-- Mae West
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. . .Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. . . Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
-- Helen Keller
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“What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors.”
-- Henry Becque
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“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
-- “Separation” by W.S. Merwin
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“I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don’t always agree with them.”
-- George Bush, US President
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“Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.”
-- Anonymous
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“If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.”
-- Cicero
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“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
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“The man in the hat was quite obviously a pervert, and Simon recalled the single salient point that his parents had made in all their comments about perverts.
‘Where’s my sweet?’ he said.”
-- Oblivion by Dave Stone (and can you believe I didn’t like anything else in the novel?)
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“There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in mind.”
-- Marcel Proust
