Saying: a usually pithy and familiar statement expressing an observation or principle generally accepted as wise or true.
though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing. ~e.e. cummings
I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran
Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. ~Author Unknown
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ~Harper Lee
Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness. ~Terri Guillemets
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ~O. Henry
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. ~George Miller
Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them. ~Compton MacKenzie
Conscience is, in most, an anticipation of the opinion of others. ~Henry Taylor
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883
That arc of light, born of the shower and colored by the sun, which spans the heavens! ~Jean Charles Prince (rainbow)
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ~Edward R. Murrow
Medicines heals doubts as well as diseases. ~Karl Marx
I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me. ~Josh Billings
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior? ~James Donovan
A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it. ~John Loengard, "Pictures Under Discussion"
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. ~Charles H. Spurgeon
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap. ~Liv Ullmann
Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. ~John Wesley
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