But I can’t do any good in this world if I’m a walking, ticking time bomb, ever-ready to scatter the shrapnel of my misdirected emotions.
Lori Deschene,Tiny Buddha
“You will end up really disappointed if you think people will do for you as you do for them. Not everyone has the same heart as you.”
Unknown
Now for some lighter thoughts:
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
P. G. Wodehouse
I don’t believe in astrology. I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.
Arthur C. Clarke
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
My grandmother is over eighty and she still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny Youngman
I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken
In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.
Burt Prelutsky
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O’Rourke
Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
Tom Wilson