The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
Author: Dave Barry
Source: The Taming of the Screw
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: American Civilization", The Atlantic Monthly, 1862
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Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am sure the grapes are sour.
Author: Aesop
Source: The Fox and the Grapes
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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
Author: Virgil
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No human thing is of serious importance.
Author: Plato
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In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.
Author: Virgil
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A small rock holds back a great wave.
Author: Homer
Source: The Odyssey
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I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: The Apple Cart (1930)
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Author: Plato
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I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
Author: Dave Barry
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: Walden, Conclusion, 1854
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Author: Confucius
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration
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The best [man] is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao.
Author: Lao Tzu
Source: The Way of Lao-tzu
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You cannot conceive the many without the one.
Author: Plato
Source: Dialogues, Parmenides
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To each his own.
(Suum Cuique)
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
Author: George Bernanos
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