“The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking” ~Phaedrus

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. ~Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. ~Walt Whitman

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ~George F. Will (1941 - )

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water. ~Stone Gossard

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” ~Socrates

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” ~Plutarch

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ~Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ~Plutarch

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ~Ernest Hemingway

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” ~John le Carré

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. ~H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~Norman Vincent Peale

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. ~Matt Groening (1954 - ), "Life in Hell"

The sun is new each day. ~Heraclitus

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. ~George S. Patton

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. ~Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), The Little Foxes, 1939

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ~George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. ~Thomas Wolfe