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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav Mahler



Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. ~Josh Billings



A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private. ~Elizabeth Wilson



Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~Robert Byrne



Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~Leo Tolstoy



Sometimes I think if there was a third sex men wouldn't get so much as a glance from me. ~Amanda Vail



Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be. ~Dennis Gunton



One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb



Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. ~Henry David Thoreau, journal, 5 January 1856



A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment. ~Duke of Endinburgh



When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen. ~Author Unknown



The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Elliot



What do nudists wear on casual Fridays? ~Author Unknown



Jealousy and love are sisters. ~Russian Proverb



Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith



Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself. ~James Anthony Froude, Oceana, 1886



Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank. ~Ben Irwin



History is but the nail on which the picture hangs. ~Alexandre Dumas, Catherine Howard