Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
~quote about Generations by Susan Sontag
If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.
~quotes on Teachers by Donald D. Quinn
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
~sayings on Philosophical by Terry Josephson
What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you?
~quotations on Television by J.B. Priestley
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
~quote from famous people by Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
~saying about from people by Yiddish Proverb
When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
~quote about Hypocrisy by Otto von Bismarck
I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before reaching for the handkerchief. Then I know I'm really crying. Crying just isn't crying unless it's messy.
~quotes on Crying by D.H. Mondfleur
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
~sayings on Exercise by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two
~quotations on Weddings by Ambrose Bierce
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
~quote from famous people by Les Brown
More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.
~saying about from people by Linda Sunshine
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it
~quote about Mothers Day by Chinese Proverb
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
~quotes on Money by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897
The sun is nature's Prozac.
~sayings on Light by Astrid Alauda
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
~quotations on Mothers by Washington Irving
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
~quote from famous people by Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958
We don’t own expensive possessions. They own us by the expense of supporting them.
~saying about from people by
Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.
~quote about Integrity by Davy Crockett
What holy cities are to nomadic tribes - a symbol of race and a bond of union - great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.
~quotes on Books Reading by G.E. Woodberry
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
~sayings on Community by Nathaniel Hawthorne
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim
~quotations on Drinking by Ann Landers
Kids spell love T-I-M-E.
~quote from famous people by John Crudele
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
~saying about from people by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Cru et le cuit, 1964
Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
~quote about Ideas by José Marti, letter, 1890
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
~quotes on Gratitude by G.K. Chesterton
Nobody Ever Drowned IN SWEAT
~sayings on Attitude by Dan Foley
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
~quotations on Helping by Jack London
[T]he Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
~quote from famous people by Thomas Carlyle, Characteristics
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer.
~saying about from people by Swami X
Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.
~quote about College by Martin H. Fischer
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.
~quotes on Winter by W.J. Vogel
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
~sayings on Society by Arnold Toynbee
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
~quotations on Parenting by Edward, Duke of Windsor, Look, 5 March 1957
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
~quote from famous people by H.L. Mencken
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
~saying about from people by William Arthur Ward
Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
~quote about Freedom by Jeffrey Borenstein
Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
~quotes on Women by George Eliot, The Harvest Supper, Adam Bede
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