Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
~quotes on Freedom by H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956 They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
~sayings on Environment by James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982 The best time to make friends is before you need them.
~quotations on Friendship by Ethel Barrymore Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!
~quotes famous quotes by Charlotte M. Yonge Old houses mended,Cost little less than new before they're ended.
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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
~quote about Letters by Jane Austen I no longer have the fear of being alone. It's cool to find out that you don't need a boyfriend to be happy.
~quotes on Humor by Drew Barrymore The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all
~sayings on Education by Aung San Suu Kyi I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~quotations on Human Rights by Barry Goldwater I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
~quotes famous quotes by Marlo Thomas There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
~saying about famous by Andrew Carnegie There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
~quote about Hair by Martial No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.
~quotes on Feminism by Rabbi Sofer Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
~sayings on Mistakes by Phyllis Theroux, Night Lights A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age
~quotations on Birthdays by Robert Frost I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
~quotes famous quotes by Jorge Luis Borges As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
~saying about famous by Buddy Hackett My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the pale cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of the Erie.
~quote about Faces by Toni Morrison Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
~quotes on Dogs by Roger Caras A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
~sayings on Faces by Oscar Wilde We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.
~quotations on Sisters by Rose Macaulay It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
~quotes famous quotes by Henry Louis Mencken Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
~saying about famous by William Hazlitt Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
~quote about Poetry by Samuel Johnson The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life
~quotes on Friends by Edward Everett Hale Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
~sayings on Horses by W.C. Fields Science is the record of dead religions.
~quotations on Science by The Oscariana of Oscar Fingall O'Flaherty Will Wilde [1856-1900] for George Bernard Shaw Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
~quotes famous quotes by Rebecca West, The Strange Necessity, 1928 For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
~saying about famous by Francis Bacon Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
~quote about Smiles by Mother Teresa Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
~quotes on Vegetarianism by George Bernard Shaw I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely.
~sayings on Gambling by Joe E. Lewis Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them.
~quotations on History by Guy Fregault, La guerre de la conquête Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
~quotes famous quotes by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
~saying about famous by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.
~quote about War by Harriet Tubman Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
~quotes on Feminism by Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals
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