I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was. ~Henry Miller, My Bike and Other Friends
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. ~Anton Chekhov
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ~Rudyard Kipling
How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? ~Tom Waits, "Mr Siegal," Heartattack and Vine (Thanks, Paula) How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? ~Tom Waits, "Mr Siegal," Heartattack and Vine
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. ~Erma Bombeck
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
"Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. ~Havelock Ellis
Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. ~Chinese Proverb
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. ~Jean Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957
When I skip, I have no worries. ~Carolyn Tyler, as posted on iskip.com
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. ~Matthew Henry
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. ~Sydney Smith
I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. ~Abd-El-Raham
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income. ~George Foreman
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. ~Alexander Woollcott
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. ~Matthew Henry
A hole is nothing at all, but you can still break your neck in it. ~Author Unknown
Teach us to say: "I will arise." ~Richard Le Gallienne
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Einstein
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