Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Boredom is a vital problem for…

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ~Author Unknown A book is the only place in which you…

It is better to be bold than too circumspect because fortune is of sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~Machiavelli Put a…

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. ~Friedrich Nietzsche Take care of your body. It's the…

May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb May you live all the days of your life. ~Irish blessing also attributed to…

A crying baby is the best form of birth control. ~Carole Tabron Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus. ~Bob…

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~Joseph Addison, The Spectator, 1712 I once had…

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~Christopher Morley The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard It…

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~Ezra Pound This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except…

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human…