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“my favorite animal is steak”
“tongue – a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow” - bob ekstrom“the only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for...
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“some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”
“sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful” – benjamin franklin“the worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them;...
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“from its brilliancy everything is illuminated”
“when the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness” - alexis de tocqueville“it is the inherent characteristic of the flames to move upward and illuminate the nearby area....
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“god is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk”
“for those who believe, no proof is necessary. for those who don’t believe, no proof is possible” - stuart chase“one life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. but to sacrifice...
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“opportunity only knocks once”
“opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work” - thomas edison“it is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity...
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“if you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on...
“desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything” - napoleon hill “we always long for the forbidden things, and desire...
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“the fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey”
“i would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority” – e. b. white “silence...
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“true happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the...
“to character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together: humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self” - william wordsworth“things derive their being and nature...
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“truths and roses have thorns about them.”
“you can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses” – ziggy “there is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he...
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“breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in arabia”
“some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun” - pablo picasso“i told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie” - rodney...
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“paradise can be found on the back of horses, in books and between the...
“paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside” - herman hesse“paradise is exactly like where you are right now; only much, much better” - laurie anderson“england is a...
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“roses are red, violets are blue, i’m schizophrenic, and so am i”
“winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking“ - friedrich nietzsche“a man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but...
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“you’re only given a little spark of madness. you mustn’t lose it”
“as we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others” - robert h. schuller“today you are you, that is truer than true. there is no one alive who is youer than you” - dr....
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“soon i realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, i was never going to be...
“riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them” - michel de montaigne “what a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! a...
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“like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on...
“only as high as i reach can i grow, only as far as i seek can i go, only as deep as i look can i see, only as much as i dream can i be” - karen ravn“no one feels another’s grief, no one understands...
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“there is no delight in owning anything unshared”
“woman’s dearest delight is to wound man’s self-conceit, though man’s dearest delight is to gratify hers” – george bernard shaw“only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in...
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“to fake it is to stand guard over emptiness”
“to know that which before us lies in daily life, is the prime wisdom; what is more, is fume, or emptiness, or fond impertinence” - john milton“our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil...
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“solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind”
“a harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and...
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“may you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart”
“keep love in your heart. a life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. the consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can...
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“whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god”
“it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it” – rainer maria rilke“solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you...
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