Archives - July 2013

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

I don't have to look far to find treasures. I discover them every time I visit a library.

Twitter is just a multiplayer notepad.

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.