'Twixt the optimist and pessimist/ the difference is droll:/The optimist sees the doughnut/but the pessimist sees the whole. -- McLandburgh Wilson

A kiss can be a comma, question mark, or exclamation point. -- Mistinguett

All men are born truthful, and die liars. -- Luc de Clapiers

Almost all of our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to hide them. -- Rochefoucauld

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. -- Lord Philip Chesterfield

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. -- George Washington Carver

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself and you wish to be. -- Thomas a Kempis

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -- Oscar Wilde

Death twitches my ear, "Live", he says, "I am coming." -- Virgil

First you teach a child to talk; then you have to teach it to be quiet. -- Anonymous

Here's to the past: thank God it's past! -- Anonymous

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? -- Robert Mallet

I am an atheist, and I thank God for it. -- George Bernard Shaw

I do not feel any age yet. There is no age to the spirit. -- Anonymous

I shall pass through this world but once; any good things, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, or dumb animal, let me do it now. Let me not deter it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. --John Galsworthy

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. -- Georges Courteline

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. --Derek Bok

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit. -- Josh Billings

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms, one would not part. -- Marcel Proust

It's hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. -- Henry Louis Mencken

Just think of how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now --and then got it back again. -- Anonymous

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's. -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. -- Christopher Morley

One says a lot in vain, refusing; the other mainly hears the "No." -- Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. -- Eric Hoffer

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. -- Samuel Johnson

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. -- Cullen Hightower

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. -- Napoleon I

The friendship that can cease has never been real. -- Saint Jerome

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. -- George Bernard Shaw

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike. -- Diane de Poitiers

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never decieved us. --Samuel Johnson

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. -- Longfellow

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are. -- Albert Camus

What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Conan Doyle

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you. -- Spanish proverb

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. -- Cornelia Skinner

You can take better care of your secret than another can. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson