So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 7
In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence. ~Cesar Chavez
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~Dr. Seuss
Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
Never is a long, long word, but it's less frustrating than "God knows when." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli
Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools. ~Henry David Thoreau
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
God is not the name of God, but an opinion about Him. ~Pope Xystus I, The Ring
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. ~Samuel Richardson
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. ~Author Unknown
The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. ~Bill Strickland
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset
Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself. ~Hubert de Givenchy, Vogue, July 1985
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. ~Dudley Moore
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. ~Author Unknown
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
When red headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. ~Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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