Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary Phoebe: "It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!... It's a poem. By Robert Burns."
There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. ~Finley Peter Dunne
A person given to barefaced flattery, will usually balance the account with interest in your absence. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
A show of envy is an insult to oneself. ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
God's mill grinds slow, but sure. ~George Herbert
I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents become better people as a result of practicing it. ~Joe Mullally
Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. ~Chris Van Allsburg
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed. ~Charles Schulz, Peanuts
The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about. ~Don Marquis
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. ~Richard Cardinal Cushing
Instead of being born again, why not just grow up? ~Author Unknown
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck
All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way. ~Frederick the Great
A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ~G.K. Chesterton
A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. ~Arabian Proverb
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. ~Max Nordau
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. ~Lewis Mumford
Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep. ~Bob Marley
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. ~Charles R. Brown
0 comments:
Post a Comment