"It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
-"Sister" Elizabeth Kenny (1886-1952)

"Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God
speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in."
-George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life’s star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But railing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home."
-William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

"When you see your brother, you see God."
-St. Clement of Alexandria (c.A.D. 150-c.215)

"As a tale, so is life; not how long
it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
-Seneca (4? B.C.-65 A.D.)

"God will not look your over for medals,
degrees or diplomas, but for scars."
-Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

"The soul is not where it lives but where it loves."
-Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)

"There is another reality enfolding ours-as close as our breath!"
-Don Pendleton (1927-1995)

A dreamcatcher works, if your dream is to be gay. — Demetri Martin

Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal. — Demetri Martin

I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades…or a game of fake heart attack. – Demetri Martin

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. — Bill Cosby

If it’s sent by ship then it’s a cargo, if it’s sent by road then it’s a shipment. — Dave Allen He who can does – he who cannot, teaches. – George Bernard Shaw

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. – Oscar Wilde

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. – W. C. Fields

[putting arms around Nigella Lawson] My wife is going to kill me. But you look like my wife, so that’s Ok! – Jay Leno

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end. – Jerry Seinfield

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I’m one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. – Mel Brooks

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. – George Bernard Shaw

I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception. – Groucho Marx

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice. – Bill Cosby