If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. ~Oscar Wilde~

go ugly early; don't wait for closing time.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. ~Victor Hugo, 'Les Miserables,' 1862~

If you're not failing now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe. ~Woody Allen~

Adventure is not outside man; it is within. - David Grayson

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. ~Edgar Watson Howe~

A. E. Housman~ In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you. ~Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003~

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~ A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Depression is merely anger without the enthusiasm.

Friendship like gardens, grow with beauty.

How can there be self-help groups?

Mind over matter. - German Proverb

Jacques Martin Barzun~ Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once. (Polish Proverb)

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

Confucius~ Wealth and rank are what people desire but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.

Groucho Marx~ Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Confucius Say The inventor of shag carpet made a big pile.

Birds of prey do not flock together. - Portuguese Proverb