I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.
~quote about Pregnancy by Sherry Glaser
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
~quotes on Philosophical by John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
~sayings on Government by Louis Brandeis
There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass.
~quotations on American football by Dan Devine, former Notre Dame football coach
We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes.
~old friendship quotes by Anne C. Weisberg, Everything a Working Mother Needs to Know, 1994
To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
~saying about old friendship by George Santayana
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
~quote about Psychology by James Thurber
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
~quotes on Psychology by Mason Cooley
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.
~sayings on Attitude by Henri Frédéric Amiel
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
~quotations on Helping by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
He only salutes the flag with one finger.
~old friendship quotes by The Simpsons
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure.
~saying about old friendship by Portuguese Proverb
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
~quote about Travel by G.K. Chesterton
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
~quotes on Worry by Author Unknown
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
~sayings on Manners by Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a mathematical fact that fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class.
~quotations on Math by Author Unknown
Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.
~old friendship quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
I don't think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
~saying about old friendship by W. Somerset Maugham
Love is being stupid together.
~quote about Love by Paul Valery
I will not carry a gun.... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
~quotes on Violence by Hawkeye, M*A*S*H, Officer of the Day
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.
~sayings on History by Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
~quotations on Honesty by Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment
Lost time is never found again.
~old friendship quotes by Benjamin Franklin
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
~saying about old friendship by Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927
There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.
~quote about Science by Rudolph Ladenburg
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
~quotes on Weddings by Emily Brontë
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
~sayings on Freedom by D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone.
~quotations on Tattoos by Author Unknown
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
~old friendship quotes by Marcus Antonius
Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
~saying about old friendship by Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.
~quote about Religion by John F. Schumaker, Corruption of Reality, Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't.
~quotes on Homosexuality by Author Unknown
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
~sayings on Hawww by D.H. Lawrence, Peace and War, Pansies, 1929
The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond.
~quotations on Driving by Edward McDonagh
Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.
~old friendship quotes by Russian Proverb
ทำวันนี้ให้ดีที่สุด จะได้ไม่ต้องเสียใจทีหลัง
~saying about old friendship by
Few women and fewer men, have enough character and patience to be happy when idle. Happiness is activity. Nature puts her curse on idleness. An idle brain is the devil’s playground.
~quote about Happiness by
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
~quotes on Writing by Elias Canetti
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