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Ten Random Quotes

"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with "gourmet" status."
Russell Baker

"Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!"
Emily Dickinson

"The resident kvetch of 60 Minutes. an unabashed fogy."
Sue Halpern

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion."
Ambrose Bierce

"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."
John Morley

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."
Stephen King

"No news at 4:30 a.m. is good."
Lady Bird Johnson

"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."
Lord Byron

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