My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library. -Peter Golkin, museum spokesman (1966- )

Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it. -Brigid Brophy(1929-1995)

There’s more to life than good wine.
But not much.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

I won’t rise to the occaision but I’ll slide over to it...

Give me ambiguity or gove me something else.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. -Gore Vidal, writer (1925- )

When you want a kitten, start by asking for a horse.

Rumer Godden: "Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person." - from A House with Four Rooms

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -Dwight David Eisenhower, 1969

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. -Ludwig Wittgenstein,
philosopher (1889-1951)

The more I like people in general, the more I dislike them in particular. - Dostoevsky from The Brothers Karamazov

Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another's trouble, / Courage in your own. -Adam Lindsay Gordon, (1833-1870)

A closed mind is a wonderful thing to lose.

Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet. "Inferno," cto. 1, l. 1-3, The Divine Comedy (c. 1307-

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. -Richard Feynman, physicist, Nobel laureate (1918-1988)

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is -- it must be something you cannot possibly do. - Henry Moore

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and philosopher (1772-1834)

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it. -- Alan B. Watts

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. -Lewis Carroll, 1898

There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that will help is a glass of champagne. - Betty Davis