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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. ~Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld



The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



Grammar stops at love, and at art. ~Terri Guillemets



Grammar is the grave of letters. ~Elbert Hubbard



But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Gifts," Essays, Second Series, 1844



Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust. ~Author Unknown



There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ~Annie Dillard



Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~Lydia M. Child



If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country. ~Author Unknown



Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll



The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ~Eric Hoffer



You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do. ~Author Unknown



Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. ~George J.W. Goodman, The Money Game



Man - a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ~Alexander Hamilton



Don't water your weeds. ~Proverb



It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. ~Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930



You always pass failure on your way to success. ~Mickey Rooney



Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ~Jim Murray



Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. ~Mark Twain



Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal