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Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ~Caskie Stinett, Out of the Red, 1960



Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. ~Louis L'Amour



Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself. ~Author Unknown Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself. ~Author Unknown



Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. ~Christopher Morley



I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye



We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. ~Paul Eldridge



The best way to get something done is to begin. ~Author Unknown



This psychiatry shit, apparently what you're feeling is not what you're feeling and what you're not feeling is your real agenda. ~Frank Renzulli, The Sopranos, "Pax Soprana," original airdate 14 February 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano



Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Really. ~Lenny Bruce, "Religions Inc.," in The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen, 1967



False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. ~Joseph De Maistre



The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. ~Dorothy Parker



A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. ~Bill Vaughan



Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle



Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. ~Alice Walker



The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. ~Paul Strand



I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it. ~Groucho Marx



Don't make excuses - make good. ~Elbert Hubbard



The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. ~Martin H. Fischer