Wise Words

English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar. -- Unknown

If women ruled the world there would be no wars -- just a bunch of jealous countries not talking to each other. -- Unknown

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. - Kingsley Amis

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the world together. -- Author Unknown.

The first and great commandment is, 'Don't let them scare you. --Elmer Davis

You set out for church, and find yourself; at the dog races…. –Naomi Shihab Nye, on writing poetry.

Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off. ~Author Unknown

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. - -Samuel Smiles

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem..... -- Walt Whitman, from the Preface of "Leaves of Grass"

All who wander are not lost-- Tolkien

Art is one of those things we simply must do so that our spirits may continue to grow. -- Unknown

Art is the expression of mans' pleasure in labour. - William Morris, designer

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther, reformer and theologian

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall hang separately. -- Benjamin Franklin, philosopher and American patriot

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly. -- Langston Hughes, American poet

Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.-- Rainer Maria Rilke, poet

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? -- Benjamin Franklin

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. -- Mr. Miyagi (The Next Karate Kid)

We nestle in nature, and draw our living as parasites from her roots and grains, and we receive glances from the heavenly bodies, which call us to solitude, and foretell the remotest future. The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know nothing, except what everyone knows-- if there when Grace dances, I should dance.-- W.H. Auden

The function of an artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He makes uneasy the static, the set and the still. -- Norman Bethune

The thing I've learned, folks, and this is absolutely key, it's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself. -- Chris-in-the-Morning, KBHR, Cicely, Alaska (Northern Exposure)

Stay calm. Share your bananas. -- Koko, the Gorilla.

Me and God, we be mates.-- Crocodile Dundee (Crocodile Dundee I)