Quotes

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. George Eliot, Middlemarch

Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will. George Eliot, Romola

I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME! Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld episode “The Van Buren Boys” – broadcast on February 6, 1997

Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect. Jason DeBruin, The poem “Temporary Shame”

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. Oscar Wilde, Letter from Paris, dated May 1900

cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit. Maynard James Keenan, in the song “Schism”, by Tool

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out. Will Rodgers

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world....