quotes for facebook

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. ~G.K. Chesterton


Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones


A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it. ~Frank A. Clark


The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~Martin H. Fischer


I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ~Douglas Adams


You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. ~Walt Schmidt


Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Mencius


The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881


The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. ~Will Rogers


Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. ~Author Unknown


He loses his thanks who promises and delays. ~Proverb


The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. ~Author Unknown


I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. ~Ida B. Wells


A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ~G.K. Chesterton


Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin


A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. ~Erich Fromm (Thanks, Sarah)


Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on. ~Thurman Arnold


Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"


Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. ~Seven Wright


Every true genius is bound to be naive. ~J.C.F. von Schiller

best friend quotes and poems

For many are called, but few are chosen. ~Matthew 22:14


A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. ~Francis Bacon, Essays


Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A show of envy is an insult to oneself. ~Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko


Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many. ~Robert Kirby


Chiastic quotation: see Chiasmus.


People change and forget to tell each other. ~Lillian Hellman


When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team. ~George Raveling


Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common. ~Satchel Paige


Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. ~Seneca


Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. ~Franklin P. Jones


Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ~Sultana Zoraya


There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. ~Ramana Maharshi, attributed


Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams. ~Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence


Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~C.C. Scott


Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due. ~Richard Blackmore, The Jockey Club and its Founders, 1891


For the most part, Western medicine doctors are not healers, preventers, listeners, or educators. But they're damned good at saving a life and the other aspects kick the beam. It's about time we brought some balance back to the scale. ~Claire Todae

amore e amicizia

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982 Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982


The safest risk is the one you didn't take. ~Author Unknown


He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless. ~Italian Proverb


My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said. ~Author Unknown


Jealousy is the great exaggerator. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783


Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs. ~Tom Wolfe


The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~Muhammad Ali


My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. ~Margot Asquith


Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment. ~Ellis Peters


Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man. ~Emily Dickinson


America: Where a little thing like a majority won't get in the way of democracy! ~Author Unknown


Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown


Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. ~Pam Brown


A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers. ~Helen Lawrenson


Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. ~Al McGuire


Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. ~Sara, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999


Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ~Joseph Conrad


Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

quotes about dads

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti


A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ~Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain


All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey


I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time. ~Bill Gold


Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ~St. Jerome, Attack on Jovinian


There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. ~Kenneth Patchen


I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. ~Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849


There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. ~Fran Lebowitz


There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. ~Author Unknown


Harmony seldom makes a headline. ~Silas Bent


What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The easiest way to keep a secret is without help. ~Author Unknown


Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. ~Tracy Kidder


Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. ~William James, The Principles of Psychology


Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. ~Stephen Vincent Benet


An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. ~Author Unknown


Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids. ~Sam Levenson


If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food. ~Sally Edwards


The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ~William Shenstone


His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. ~Dorothy Parker

sad love poems for him

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. ~Author Unknown


The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. ~William Ralph Inge


A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


If you mess up, 'fess up. ~Author Unknown


Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield


We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ~John Ciardi


The finish line is sometimes merely the symbol of victory. All sorts of personal triumphs take place before that point, and the outcome of the race may actually be decided long before the end. ~Laurence Malone


The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed


Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's Field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light. ~Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider


I got a postcard from my gynecologist. It said, "Did you know it's time for your annual check-up?" No, but now my mailman does. ~Cathy Ladman


What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger


A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda


Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. ~Author Unknown


She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. ~Raymond Chandler


How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; priviledging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof. ~Thomas Fuller


You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet


The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. ~Ezra Pound


Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole. ~Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest in which readers were asked to alter a word by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter and supply a new definition

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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb


The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. ~Pierre de Coubertin


The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~Thomas Carlyle


The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren


To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. ~Helen Rowland


He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than for illumination. ~Andrew Lang


If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader's Digest, July 1972


My boyfriend asked me why women think firemen are sexy, so I explained the pole theory: Men love women who slide down poles, and women love men who slide down poles. Subject dropped. ~Terri Guillemets


It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ~Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1770


And I'll skip to Heaven on my own two feet. ~Terri Guillemets


To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. ~Coventry Patmore


The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~Dorothy Nevill


In God we trust; all others must pay cash. ~American Saying


Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. ~Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic


A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it. ~Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727


If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854


What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

judgemental quotes

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. ~Winston Churchill


He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ~John McPhee


Fire takes no holiday. ~Author Unknown


Sometimes life's Hell. But hey! Whatever gets the marshmallows toasty. ~J. Andrew Helt


Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. ~Edmund Arthur Helps


Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. ~George Orwell, Animal Farm


Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau


Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners. ~William Shakespeare


Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers. ~Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour


Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ~Rudy Giuliani


Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Christ does not give men light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness. ~Johnn Wesley


Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. ~Henry David Thoreau


There are offences given and offences not given but taken. ~Izaak Walton


You can kid the world. But not your sister. ~Charlotte Gray


Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years. ~Warren Buffett


Any man can lose his hat in a fairy-wind. ~Irish Saying


All men are created equal, then a few become firemen. ~Author Unknown


We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. ~Albert Einstein


There is no finish line. ~Nike advertisement

quotes on religion

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958


Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ~John F. Kennedy


Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov


If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and treated disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered in quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock market. The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the wealth and influence of everyone involved would increase dramatically. Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since the beginning of human existence. ~Gabrielle Palmer


If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. ~Author Unknown


At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche. ~Carl Jung


Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. ~Orson Rega Card


Problems are messages. ~Shakti Gawain


I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings


There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ~Mark Twain


When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. ~B.K.S. Iyengar


But ne'er the rose without the thorn. ~Robert Herrick


It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part. ~Marcel Proust, The Fugitive, Remembrance of Things Past, 1925


Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit. ~Author Unknown


No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. ~Isaac Rosenfeld


If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle. ~Rita Mae Brown


A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. ~Author Unknown


Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~Auguste Rodin


A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ~James Feibleman, Understanding Philosophy, 1973


I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. ~Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

emo i love you quotes and sayings

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. ~John Lancaster Spalding


Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. ~Hermann Hesse


Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 15


Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. ~William Hazlitt


His love shone as impartial as the sun. ~Maurice Thompson


We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. ~Al Attles, on Nate Archibald


There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ~Tony Benn


I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. ~Voltaire


It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. ~Greenpeace advertisement, New York Times, 25 February 1990


I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All


Gluttony is not a secret vice. ~Orson Welles


What is soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. ~Ray Charles


Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ~Gustave Flaubert


If I were a doctor, skipping would be my number one prescription. ~Jessi Lane Adams


To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951


Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. ~Brendan Francis


My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure. ~Ashleigh Brilliant


I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. ~Bishop Desmond Tutu, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs


When the horse is dead, get off. ~Author Unknown