quotes

"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you." Roger Ebert

“My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.” Peter Golkin, museum spokesman (1966- )

"Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them." Alvin Toffler, futurist and author (1928- )

"The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime." Henry David Thoreau

"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while." Kin Hubbard

"The days are long enough for those who use them." Leonardo da Vinci

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.” James Dent

"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world." Ada Louise Huxtable

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times'

"The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does." Maurice Barres, novelist and politician (1862-1923)

'The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself." Rita Mae Brown

"Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs." Martha Scott

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. " Thomas Merton

“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.” Gladys Browyn Stern, writer (1890-1973)

“Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.” Pepper Giardino

"To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace." Milan Kundera

"Laughter is an instant vacation." Milton Berle

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.” Doug Larson

“In summer, the song sings itself.” William Carlos Williams

“Happiness walks on busy feet.” Kitte Turmell

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace." Milan Kundera

"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent." Jean Kerr