“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, quoted in Forbes) “Character—The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source form which self-respect springs.” (Joan Didion, quoted inBookreporter.com) “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” (Fredrick Douglass, quoted in …
“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.” (Ronald Reagan, quoted in the Victory Baptist Press) “Good things happen slowly, bad things happen fast.” (Abigail Thomas, quoted in The Boston Globe) “I don’t know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.” (Sandra Day O’Connor, …
“A 2-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.” (Jerry Seinfeld, quoted in BuzzFeed.com) “Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength and move on.” (Henry Rollins, quoted in HuffingtonPost.com) “Rugby is a good occasion for keeping 30 bullies off the streets.” (Oscar Wilde) “Easy lives make …
“I always thought the world was divided into only two kinds of people—those who think the world is divided into only two kinds of people, and those who don’t.” (Molly Ivins, quoted in the Asheville, N.C. Citizen-Times) “The person who follows the crowd will usually go further than the crowd. the person who walks alone …
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” (Tom Clancy, quoted in GCFL.net) “What we know is a drop; what we don’t know is an ocean.” (Isaac Newton, quoted in The Toronto Sun) “Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, quoted …
“Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.” (Gen. George S. Patton) “The strength of moral character is derived and conserved by the refusing of the unimportant.” (Oswald Sanders) [That is a very convicting truth! AH] “Human history is the long terrible story o man trying …