quotes for today

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. ~Arthur Koestler



We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes. ~Anne C. Weisberg, Everything a Working Mother Needs to Know, 1994



As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full. ~Terri Guillemets



Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar. ~Wilfrid G. Oakley



Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes. ~Author Unknown



I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. ~Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893



People "died" all the time.... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions - decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out... you always knew when you made a decision against life.... The door clicked and you were safe inside - safe and dead. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible. ~J.J. Bentley



The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. ~Sydney Smith



It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. ~Seneca



If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention. ~Author Unknown



A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. ~Henry Giles



Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about. ~Rodney Marsh, 1969



In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper, The Task



People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that. ~Don Murray



God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion. ~Fernand Mery



People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ~William McFee, Casuals of the Sea, 1916



The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. ~Bill Maher



Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ~Alfred North Whitehead