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Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick



Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. ~Jim Beggs



People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote. ~Charlotte Gray



You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone. ~Lou Krieger



Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else? ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold.... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ~Matthew 4:4



I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein



Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ~David T. Wolf



With neurotics, it's always "some assembly required." ~Terri Guillemets



The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose. ~Garrison Keillor



The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends. ~Saki



This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind. ~Herbert J. Muller



To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg



I'd prefer to have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. ~Frank Nicholson, attributed



If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., address to Holt Street Baptist Church, 5 December 1955



The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. ~Cecil Beaton



That ephemeral sheet,... the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. ~E. and J. de Goncourt, Journal, July 1858



Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it! ~Martin H. Fischer