quotes for your sister

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. ~Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711


Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ~Martin H. Fischer


New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! ~E.B. White


Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ~Mark Twain


No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. ~Charles Dudley Warner


I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense. ~Gene Perret


When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670


The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right. ~Terri Guillemets


I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. ~Author Unknown


TV a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. ~Goodman Ace


All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! ~Thomas Carlyle


Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. ~Author Unknown


There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night. ~Marie de Rabutin-Chantal


Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that�s bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers


A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature's demands - except man, who has found ways of ignoring them. ~Eugene M. Poirot, Our Margin of Life, 1978


Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. ~Author Unknown


The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins. ~Tom Canterbury


If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ~Gelett Burgess


One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. ~Franklin Thomas


Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827