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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898



Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ~Frank A. Clark



Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. ~Arthur Schopenhauer



Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. ~Carl G. Jung



It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. ~Henry David Thoreau



How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. ~Alistair Cooke



After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile. ~English Saying



Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. ~Sydney Smith, His Wit and Wisdom, 1900



I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~Henry David Thoreau



We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton



This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was. ~Quentin Crisp



Curling rocks! ~Saying of the sport



Waiting is one of life's hardships. ~Lemony Snicket



Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man. ~Jean Jacques Rousseau



A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn. ~Dave Barry



When gravity calls, something falls. ~J.L.W. Brooks



If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words...." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com