I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses. Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand short story author (1888 - 1923) Eating without conversation is only stoking. Marcelene Cox Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing? Katharine Whitehorn My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. Rita Rudner
US comedian Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. Agnes Repplier
US essayist (1855 - 1950) Hope is a thing with feathers <br> That perches in the soul, <br> And sings the tune without words <br> And never stops at all. Emily Dickinson
US poet (1830 - 1886) To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. Simone Weil
French social philosopher (1909 - 1943) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. Emily Dickinson
US poet (1830 - 1886) My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me. Anne Morrow Lindbergh | 
