The enemy of your enemy is your friend.  ~Proverb

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.  ~Henri Frederic Amiel

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.  ~Author Unknown

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.  ~William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Set out from any point.  They are all alike.  They all lead to a point of departure.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.  ~Chinese ProverbFW

How, child, do I know where you’re headed?  Because I’m there, and I can see you coming.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy.  ~D.H. Lawrence

Won’t you come into the garden?  I would like my roses to see you.  ~Richard Brinsley SheridanMBT

Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter

There are always three sides to every story:  your side, the other side, and the truth.  ~Author Unknown

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.  ~William Bernbach

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.  ~Kahlil Gibran

It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.  ~Mexican Proverb

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his own.  However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.  ~Charles Dudley WarnerQG

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.  ~Andy RooneyNEMYL

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.  ~Mark TwainCUL

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.  ~Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842LCD

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.  ~William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600LCD

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.  ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22

We’re all hookers.  What matters is dignity.  ~Mike Farren

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.  But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute – and it’s longer than any hour.  That’s relativity.  ~Albert EinsteinGCLE

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.  ~James BaldwinLLDT

A light supper, a good night’s sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.  ~Earl of Chesterfield

There is no burnt rice to a hungry person.  ~Philippine ProverbCOCI

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place.  A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse below and dreams of home.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

How many merits one sees in those one likes! how many faults in those one dislikes!  Yet people fancy they see with their eyes.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Each moment is a place you’ve never been.  ~Mark Strand SD

It takes a while, but eventually we appreciate that the people who were always there for the special occasions of our youth had other things to do.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.  ~Curtis BillingsQSO

A boil is no big deal.  On someone else’s neck.  ~Jewish Sayingin Leo Rosten’s Treasury of Jewish Quotations

The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. MerwinTPV

If anyone were to be willing to trace his descent through an ape as his grandfather, would he be willing to trace his descent similarly on the side of his grandmother?  ~Samuel Wilberforcein speech to British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1860, SS

A hole is nothing at all, but you can still break your neck in it.  ~Author Unknown

Edible, adj.:  Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.  ~Ambrose Bierce

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.  ~Marcel Proust, The Fugitive, Remembrance of Things Past, 1925PMB

When a guy goes to a hooker, he’s not paying her for sex, he’s paying her to leave.  ~Author Unknown

The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of a whole number. ~Martin H. FischerFFM

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.  ~Friederich Nietzsche

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.  ~Russian Proverb

Winning is overrated.  The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.  ~Al McGuireBS

Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity. ~Terri Guillemets

It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom.  Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.  Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance and the other in a dusky and lurid glow.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.  ~John Henry Cardinal NewmanCUL

Chaperons don’t enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.  ~Judith Martin

Emotion has taught mankind to reason.  ~Marquis de Vauvenargues

As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full.  ~Terri Guillemets

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.  ~Benjamin Disraeli

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.  ~Alexander Pope, in Swift, MiscellaniesLCD

Expectant of greater things,
We try climbing –
Higher
And Higher;
An effort that costs us much,
Leaving us short of breath
To find only
The ground below is much prettier.
~Phillip Pulfrey, "Mountains" Love, Abstraction and other Speculations, www.originals.netNov08mail

The shadows:  some hide, others reveal.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

An apology for the Devil:  It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case.  God has written all the books.  ~Samuel Butler, Note-BooksLCD

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.  ~William Hazlitt, Sketches and Essays, 1839MBT p29

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.  ~Robert Benchley, Benchley – or Else!

I never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune, nor suffered my face to be overcast at the revolution of the heavens, except once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes.  I came to the chief of Kfah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet.  I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience, and exclaimed,
Roast fowl to him that’s sated will seem less
Upon the board than leaves of garden cress.
While, in the sight of helpless poverty,
Boiled turnip will a roasted pullet be.
~Sa’dī, translatedpopular modern paraphrase: I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

An exhibitionist is nothing without a voyeur.  ~S.A. Sachs

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.  ~Socrates

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.  ~John Lubbock

Sin is geographical.  ~Bertrand Russell

Advice to children crossing the street:  damn the lights.  Watch the cars.  The lights ain’t never killed nobody.  ~Moms MableyWL

There’s an alternative.  There’s always a third way, and it’s not a combination of the other two ways.  It’s a different way.  ~David CarradineSD

A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.  ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Notebook L," AphorismsPMB

‘Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
~Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, Part I, line 7; BMC

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.  ~Charles Simic SD

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that e[E]very saint has a past and every sinner has a future.  ~Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893LCD; PMB

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.  ~Norman Cousins

Distance is inspiration’s best hearting.  ~E. Marshalljun09mail

Be careful how you interpret the world:  It is like that.  ~Erich HellerPMB

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.  ~Walt Whitman

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. ~Brooks AtkinsonCUL

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.  ~Bob Hawke

Immorality:  The morality of those who are having a better time.  ~H.L. Mencken

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction. ~Mike Dolan, www.hawaiianlife.comtwitter.com/HawaiianLife/status/153694607929126912

If a dream is realistic, it’s not really a dream. It’s a to-do. ~Kim & Jason Kotecki, kimandjason.comtwitter.com/kimandjason/status/25313669955

A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.  ~Samuel Grafton

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

The activities you spent your time on yesterday were the things that were important to you.  Calendars don’t lie.  ~Scott Ginsberg, hellomynameisscott.com

If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he’s probably willing to give yours as well.  ~David Gerrold

If you see a whole thing – it seems that it’s always beautiful.  Planets, lives…  But up close a world’s all dirt and rocks.  And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.  ~Ursula K. Le Guin

Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.  ~Dorthea Lange

I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Rennaisance.  ~Steven Wright

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves.  The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.  ~Carl Jung

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1836LCD

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.  ~Saint Francis de Sales