There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~quote about Light by Edith Wharton
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.
~quotes on Soul by Vincent Van Gogh
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
~sayings on Marriage by François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
~quotations on Living by Alfred Hitchcock
Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old
~teenage friendship quotes by Mary H. Waldrip
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
~saying about teenage friendship by Paul Sweeney
I'll stick with gin. Champagne is just ginger ale that knows somebody.
~quote about Alcohol by M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, Ceasefire, 1973
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
~quotes on Simplicity by E.F. Schumacker
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
~sayings on Kindness by Karl Reiland
Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers.
~quotations on Conformity by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
~teenage friendship quotes by Anita Loos
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance
~saying about teenage friendship by Franklin P. Adams
I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.
~quote about Golf by Lee Trevino
Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause, Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.
~quotes on Memorial Day by Richard Watson Gilder
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
~sayings on Pleasure by Cicero
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't
~quotations on Adversity by Frank A. Clark
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
~teenage friendship quotes by Lord Chesterfield
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are kind, but because you are.
~saying about teenage friendship by Unknown
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat we say we have had our day
~quote about Death by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A gun gives you the body, not the bird.
~quotes on Philosophical by Henry David Thoreau
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
~sayings on America by Walter Lippman
Every baby needs a lap.
~quotations on Babies by Henry Robin
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews
~teenage friendship quotes by Sandy Koufax
Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.
~saying about teenage friendship by Zacharty Bercovitz
If a ferret bites you it is nearly always your own fault.
~quote about Animal Rights by Phil Drabble
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
~quotes on Gifts by Elwyn Brooks White
Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.
~sayings on Men by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
~quotations on Parenting by Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies
Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.
~teenage friendship quotes by Thomas Hill
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
~saying about teenage friendship by William Hazlitt
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
~quote about Prosperity by Charles Wagner
For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
~quotes on Stress by Lily Tomlin
A crying baby is the best form of birth control
~sayings on Baby by Carole Tabron
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny
~quotations on Cute by Jack Handey
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
~teenage friendship quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.
~saying about teenage friendship by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
~quote about Brothers by Antisthenes
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
~quotes on Hope by Baruch Spinoza
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