Polite Curves

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. -Oscar Wilde

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. -Christopher Columbus

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. -John Milton

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. -Thomas Jefferson

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. -Peter Drucker

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. -Peter Drucker

It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies. -Yiddish Proverb

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking. -Fats Domino

Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. -Joan Didion

A fact is like a sack -- it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place. -Luigi Pirandello

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke. -Will Rogers

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new. -Rex Steven Sikes

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. -Aristotle

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie. -Cole Porter

Good fences make good neighbors. -Robert Frost

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. -Ralph Waldo Emerson