A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956) Health food makes me sick. Calvin Trillin US columnist (1935 - ) The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time. Edmund Burke Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797) Destiny...is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved William Jennings Bryan US lawyer, orator, & politician (1860 - 1925) Communism is like one big phone company. Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966) Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. I.F. Stone In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850 English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900) Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. Anatole France French novelist (1844 - 1924) |