Every crowd has a silver lining
Every crowd has a silver lining.
— Phineas Taylor Barnum
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
—James Madison, fourth US president (1751-1836)
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Sometimes I find myself agreeing with Umberto.
Other times I want to say, “Chill dude . . . Life is a Cabaret, old chum!”
The descent into dysfunction is a long, slow process. At no point is there a conscious choice to be dysfunctional.
— Unknown, possibly original
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Sir Francis Bacon
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.
— Richard Bach