Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
~quote about Adversity by Josephine Hart
She was what we used to call a suicide blond - dyed by her own hand.
~quotes on Humorous by Saul Bellow
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
~sayings on Mind by Horace
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
~quotations on Telephones by Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies
The best contraceptive is a glass of cold water: not before or after, but instead.
~short funny saying by Author Unknown
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
~saying about short by Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
~quote about Funny Quotes by Groucho Marx
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
~quotes on Teachers by Gail Godwin
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
~sayings on Religion by Author Unknown
Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both.
~quotations on Parties by David Brown, quoted in Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes, April 2004
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
~short funny saying by Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore.
~saying about short by Anonymous Wintu Woman
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.
~quote about Sports by Al Oerter
Sometimes we make love with our eyesSometimes we make love with our handsSometimes we make love with our bodiesAlways we make love with our hearts
~quotes on Valentine's Day by Author Unknown
The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian pahks his cah, the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to warsh his car and invest in erl wells.
~sayings on Language by Author Unknown
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
~quotations on Silence by Walter Bagehot
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
~short funny saying by Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
~saying about short by Hemingway, advice to Stanley Karnow, as quoted in Friendly Advice compiled and edited by Jon Winokur
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
~quote about Civilization by Richard P. Feynman
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.
~quotes on Books Reading by Clifton Fadiman
For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence.
~sayings on Solitude by Terri Guillemets
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
~quotations on Stress by Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
~short funny saying by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
~saying about short by Mark Van Doren
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.
~quote about Humankind by Hungarian Proverb
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
~quotes on Faith by Martin Luther King Jr.
One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best
~sayings on Football by Alan Shearer
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
~quotations on Kindness by John E. Southard
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
~short funny saying by Lewis Mumford
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
~saying about short by Abraham Lincoln
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
~quote about War by John F. Kennedy
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~quotes on Adversity by Rose F. Kennedy
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
~sayings on Health by Irish Proverb
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around.
~quotations on Life by David Lodge, The British Museum Is Falling Down, 1965
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide
~short funny saying by Meg Greenfield
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
~saying about short by Colette
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
~quote about Brevity by Dennis Roth
If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first.
~quotes on Cats by Arthur Weigall
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