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