Book lust?

Libraries are brothels for the mind, librarians are the madams, greeting customers, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping books.

Guy Browning, The Guardian, October 18, 2003.

Lunacy

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

Big heart

Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.

Dorothy Parker

Sleep....

A poor substitute for caffeine.

Both sides now

I stopped fighting my inner demons.
We're on the same side now.

Political philosophy reconsidered

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

Strange resemblance

dop·pel·gäng·er, noun. A ghostly counterpart of a living person.

Early to bed

Early to rise and early to bed
Makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

James Thurber

This too shall pass

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

A good wife....

Is one who can mow the lawn in the summer and put up the storm windows in the winter.

W. C. Fields

A unique perspective

Up yours?

Garden Discourse

I do not scorn weeds. As a matter of fact, there are some instances where they are necessary for the garden. The question of propriety is decided by the dialogue between man and weed.

Shimpei Kusano

Last Words #9

That was a great round of golf, fellers.  

Bing Crosby

Plus ça change...

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum. 

George Bernard Shaw

Sun-stroked or sun-smitten?

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Russell Baker

Strange Convergence: Piano + Cats = Katzenklavier

A proposed cure for melancholy and attention deficit disorder during 17th century. More at Wikipedia.

Flashed

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

Sir Robert Baden Powell

Last Words #8

I have a terrific headache.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Cleansing Rituals

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

Ambrose Bierce

Expect nothing....

Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker