If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
- Blaise Pascal


Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you?
- Unknown


A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
- Chinese proverb


The music is not in the notes,but in the silence between.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.
- Mark Twain


A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes


You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry


The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
- David Russell


Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
- Hans Christian Andersen


Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
- Mason Cooley


You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
- Bill Watterson


There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
- Confucius

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
- Mark Twain


It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
- Margaret Bonnano


Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
- Feodor Dostoevsky


A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
- Rita Mae Brown


Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
- Henry Ford


The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot


If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
- Mark Twain