There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.
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Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
~quotes on Birth by Margaret Mitchell Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
~sayings on Men by Erica Jong I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.
~quotations on Very True by Elaine Dundy A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
~friendship good quotes by Helen Rowland The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
~quote about Writing by Samuel Johnson Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.
~quotes on Animal Rights by Albert Schweitzer All know the way; few actually walk it.
~sayings on Action by Bodhidharma Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
~quotations on Success by David Frost That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!
~friendship good quotes by Wolfgang Pauli Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.
~saying about friendship by M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.
~quote about Religion by Victor Hugo Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
~quotes on Art by Wynetka Ann Reynolds Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~sayings on Death by Norman Cousins Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them
~quotations on Death by Edward W. Howe I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
~friendship good quotes by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
~saying about friendship by Dorothy Parker Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
~quote about Kindness by Samuel Johnson Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?
~quotes on Environment by Lane Olinghouse Scientists are complaining that the new Dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing?
~sayings on Cute by Jay Leno For years it has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
~quotations on Jewelry by Erma Bombeck, about her wedding ring The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right.
~friendship good quotes by Terri Guillemets If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
~saying about friendship by Jack Handey When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.
~quote about Advice by Charles Varlet de La Grange, Pensées, 1872 The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake!
~quotes on Medical by Martin H. Fischer Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
~sayings on Attitude by Alphonse Karr I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
~quotations on Age by Voltaire Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.
~friendship good quotes by Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.
~saying about friendship by Fritjof Capra, The Turning Point, 1982 They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
~quote about Media Journalism by James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982 The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
~quotes on Age by H.L. Mencken As the gardener prunes the tree to draw the sap into one or two branches, so must we concentrate on one or two to avoid scattering our talents.
~sayings on Self Improvement by I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
~quotations on Alcohol by Frank Sinatra I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.
~friendship good quotes by Gene Perret The man who has no imagination has no wings.
~saying about friendship by Muhammad Ali To ask timidly is to invite refusal. Ask as though you expected to receive.
~quote about Personality by A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.
~quotes on Gambling by William Bolitho
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