Entry 272

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Emerson

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Dante

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
Emerson

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran

Entry 271

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff


I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interests.
Winston Churchill

Entry 270

Great hypocrites are the real atheists.
Francis Bacon, Sr.


A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Andre Gide


Democracy don't rule the world. You'd better get that in your head. This world is ruled by violence. But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Bob Dylan


What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.
Bill Maher


A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson

Entry 269

O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed!
Virgil

Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet.
Jack Handy

As the counterpart of Zeus for the Greeks or Jupiter for the Romans, Indra is the god of the thunderstorm, who vanquishes drought and darkness.
Rig Veda

Entry 268

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
Mark Twain




AnD tHeRe It WaS.

ThE vErY fIrSt StAr.

ThE vErY fIrSt TeAr

Of LiGhT iN tHe UnIvErSe.

StArLiGhT.

Oh WhAt A mYsTeRy

Is HeAvEn

AnD

wOmEn

So LoVeLy

An EaRtH.

M.L. Squier

Entry 267

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.

Joss Whedon

Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, the romance and you find out you still care for that person.
Alexandre Dumas

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
Federico Fellini

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo


It is easy to fly into a passion---anybody can do that---but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way---that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
Aristotle

Entry 266

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
Anonymous

Truth flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho Marx

Truth is a fruit that should not be picked until it is ripe.
Voltaire

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun


The land that had nourished him and had borne him fruit now turned against him and called him a fruit. Man, I hate land like that.
Jack Handy

Entry 265

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
Edward Abbey

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
Oscar Wilde

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. Wells

Patriotism is the religion of hell.
James Branch Cabell

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
Charles Baudelaire

Entry 264

I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it.

Stephen Wright


When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
Stephen Wright


You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
Stephen Wright

Entry 263

All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.
Joseph Sobran


If any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the passing years and generations.
Thomas Sowell



It is by this tribunal that statesmen [are tried] not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence but upon the enlarged and solid principles of morality.
Edmund Burke

The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust, and they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.
Alexander Hamilton

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.
Thomas Jefferson

Entry 262

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
Mark Twain

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes--none knows whence--and cannot explain itself.
Mark Twain

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain

Entry 261

The oil can is mightier than the sword.

Everett Dirksen

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

John Milton

Entry 260

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Benjamin Franklin

She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

Woody Allen

Entry 259

DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed the most unexpected and deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life in a duel.

Ambrose Bierce

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

Boris Pasternak

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Mark Twain

Entry 258

The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.
Unknown


What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being.
Jose Saramago


I am part of the sea and stars
And the winds of the South and North;
Of mountains and Moon and Mars,
And the ages sent me forth!
Edward H.S. Terry