Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. ~Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896
In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. ~Richard Wilkinson
Inspiration abounds when I skip and I do feel like a kid again. It frees the cobwebs, stimulates the soul, and enlightens the spirit. ~Nancy, as posted on skip.com
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. ~James Norman Hall
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil. ~Byron, Hours of Idleness
Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur. ~Carrie Latet
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished? ~Francis Bacon
It's double the giggles and double the grins, and double the trouble if you're blessed with twins. ~Author Unknown
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. ~Bill Veeck, 1975
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ~Vladimir Nabokov
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage. ~George Washington
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. ~Lewis Gannit
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. ~Isaac Asimov
If you have a lane, you have a chance. ~Author Unknown
One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa. ~Mac O'Grady, describing a typical round of golf
I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose. ~Gerald Ford
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. ~William E. Simon
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. ~Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown, 1926
Peace on the outside comes from knowing God on the inside. ~Author Unknown
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. ~Bobcat Goldthwaite
Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. ~Don Sutton
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. ~Erma Bombeck
When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
