Punchline Status Quotes

#1. but that it is only the writings and precepts of the philosophers and other fine writers that are the true riches, because they enrich with virtue the minds of those that possess them." Euthydemus

Xenophon

#2. You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?

Martin Amis

#3. God made a wonderful mother, a mother who never grows old; He made her smile of the sunshine, and He molded her heart of pure gold; in her eyes He placed bright shining stars, in her cheeks, faith roses you see; god made a wonderful mother, and He gave that dear mother to me.

Pat O'Reilly

#4. Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.

Teresa Mummert

#5. There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

Herbert Spencer

#6. The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#8. Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly.

Dave Anthony

#9. He who doesn't fear his own imagination ... is not worthy to envision.

Lionel Suggs

#10. But perhaps you do not understand. I was crippled, crippled by an elephant that came through the roof - Madam LaVaughn

Kate DiCamillo

#11. All presidents but Jefferson have argued that their first job was to keep us safe. All presidents but Jefferson were wrong. If you read the Constitution, you will see that the President's first job - as Jefferson understood well - is to keep us free.

Andrew Napolitano

#12. I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn't take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to come up and give a look, revealing its location.

Joseph Monninger