If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~Anne Bradstreet
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? referring to cliff dwellings
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ~Ecclesiastes 12:14
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. ~Charles Dickens
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ~Henry David Thoreau
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. ~Francoise Sagan
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Can you find another market like this? Where, with your one rose, you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? ~Rumi
It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going. ~Groucho Marx
If I were a cat, what would make me purr? A pair of really comfortable blue jeans, and massages. ~Cinnamon Stomberger
It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne
A man's kiss is his signature. ~Mae West
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. ~Kim Elizabeth
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. ~Howard Scott
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret. ~Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
Saying yes to the skinny jeans by saying no to the donuts. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com
Your heart knows your song, but you have to be willing to listen to the words. ~Sue Rock, http://sue215.blogspot.com
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. ~Simon Gray I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. ~Mother Teresa
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ~J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922
...And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas. ~Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "Miracles"
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. ~Pablo Picasso
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