The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
~quote about Justice by Tacitus, Annals
You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.
~quotes on Society by Earl Wilson
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
~sayings on Women by J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
~quotations on Wise Words by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
~quotes on love and friendship for teen by James Conrad
Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.
~saying about friendshipteen by James Alexander Thom
It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood an
~quote about Arbor Day by Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message
Men may come, men may go, but I go on forever
~quotes on Attitude by
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
~sayings on Living by Art Buchwald
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
~quotations on Faith by Blaise Pascal
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
~quotes on love and friendship for teen by Will Rogers
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them
~saying about friendshipteen by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart
~quote about Commitment Ceremonies by Author Unknown
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy
~quotes on Independence Day by Paul Sweeney
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.
~sayings on Gambling by Mark Twain
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
~quotations on Death by Alice Walker
I am a part of all that I have met.
~quotes on love and friendship for teen by Alfred Lord Tennyson
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
~saying about friendshipteen by Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.
~quote about Feminism by Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage, and guarantee he'd be dead within the year.
~quotes on Marriage by Bette Davis
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
~sayings on Adversity by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
~quotations on America by Oscar Wilde
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow
~quotes on love and friendship for teen by Charles Brower
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
~saying about friendshipteen by Laurence J. Peter
An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him - and we would have fewer mediocre concerts.
~quote about Music by Kit Coleman, Kit Coleman: Queen of Hearts
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job
~quotes on Retirement by Ella Harris
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving.
~sayings on Poverty by O. Henry, Heart of the West, 1907
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
~quotations on America by Robert J. McCracken
When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better
~quotes on love and friendship for teen by Joe Torre
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
~saying about friendshipteen by Hendrik Wilhelm van Loon, The Story of Mankind
Friends are God's apology for relations.
~quote about Family by Hugh Kingsmill
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
~quotes on Friendship by Menclus
Man creates problems. Government and bureaucrats magnify them 100 times
~sayings on Bureaucracy by George Van Valkenburg
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule.
~quotations on Sanity by Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
Faith is a passionate intuition.
~quotes on love and friendship for teen by William Wordsworth
If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
~saying about friendshipteen by Carl Sagan
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law
~quote about Valentine's Day by Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.
~quotes on Smiles by Charles Gordy
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