Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.
George Bernard Shaw

True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

The eye is the jewel of the body.
Henry David Thoreau

intransigient - refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible. a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

A frustrated father told a work colleague: "When I was a youngster, I was disciplined by being sent to my room without supper. But in my son's room, he has his own color TV, computer, games console, cell phone and CD player."

"So what do you do?"

The father replied: "I send him to my room!"

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do.  Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions.  If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.
Rabindranath Tagore

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
Virgil

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire

We can't all be heroes, because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers

Every year, Smitty and his wife Martha went to the State Fair. And every year, Smitty would say, "Martha, I'd like to ride in that there airplane." And every year, Martha would reply, "I know, Smitty, but that airplane ride costs ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars."

This one year Smitty and Martha went to the fair and Smitty said, "Martha, I'm 71-years old. If I don't ride that airplane this year I may never get another chance. "

Martha replied, "Smitty, that there airplane ride costs ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars."

The pilot overheard them and said, "Folks, I'll make you a deal. I'll take you both up for a ride. If you can stay quiet for the entire ride and not say one word, I won't charge you, but if you say one word it's ten dollars." Smitty and Martha agreed, and up they went.

The pilot performed all kinds of twists and turns, rolls and dives, but not a word is heard. He even does a nose dive, pulling up 15 feet above the ground, but still not a word. They land and the pilot turns to Smitty, "By golly, I did everything I could think of to get you to yell out, but you didn't."

Smitty replied, "Well, I was gonna say something when Martha fell out ... but ten dollars is ten dollars!"

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
Thomas Paine

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
Thornton Wilder

The irate customer calling the newspaper offices, loudly demanded to know where her Sunday edition was.

"Ma'am, said the employee, today is Saturday.The Sunday paper is not delivered 'til Sunday."

There was quite a pause on the other end of the phone, followed by a ray of recognition.

"So that's why no one was in church today."

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
Plutarch

The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.
Peace Pilgrim

It is time to be old, To take in sail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
Ronald Reagan

Cool teenage Martian: "I was at a party on Mercury last night."

His friend: "Was it any good?"

Cool teenage Martian: "No! It was really boring."

His friend: "How come?"

Cool teenage Martian: "There was no atmosphere."