senior quotes for 2011

If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could! ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. ~Author Unknown



America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas. ~John Burton Brimer



Never wear anything that panics the cat. ~P.J. O'Rourke



I always wanted to be Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up. I can't fly, but swimming is the next best thing. It's harmony and balance. The water is my sky. ~Clayton Jones



I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. ~Janette Barber



I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon. ~Willa Sibert Cather



Men are like a fine wine. They start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. ~Author Unknown



Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. ~Frank A. Clark



The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. ~Albert Einstein



Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Author Unknown



If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? ~George Clason



In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal



The water is your friend. You don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move. ~Aleksandr Popov



There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. ~Finley Peter Dunne



Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. ~Richard Bach



The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton



Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. ~Edward Abbey