There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. ~Josh Billings It's double the giggles and double the grins, and double the trouble if you're…

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Ye shall know the truth, and…

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~E.M. Forster I think we may safely trust a good deal…

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his…

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ~Elizabeth Drew The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St.…

Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~William Faulkner Time…

Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character. ~S.W. Straus Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse. ~Seneca…

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ~Voltaire Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~Edmund Burke Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect…

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. ~Jacques Barzun I have always considered tennis as a…

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ~Nicholas Johnson I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence.…