sex and the city quotes

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus


Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. ~W.H. Auden, A Certain World


Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. ~Francis Bacon


When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. ~Vincent Van Gogh


To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~Charles Horton Cooley


If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. ~Edgar Watson Howe


Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark. ~Author Unknown


You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. ~Maya Angelou


You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson


There is no such thing as a little garlic. ~A. Baer


Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. ~Peter Saint James


Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ~Jean Jacques Rousseau


God is real, unless declared integer. ~Author Unknown


Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. ~Attributed to John Wagner


I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes


As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ~Antisthenes


Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers


I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1909


His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays. ~Ian Baker-Finch, on John Daly