1950s housewife quotes

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, An Address to the Students of the Faculty of Medicine in University College, London, May 18, 1870, On the Occasion of the Distribution of Prizes for the Session (Thanks, Paul)



These are Americans who still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do. These are Americans who still dream big dreams - they just sense their leaders have forgotten how. ~Barack Obama, Emily's List Annual Luncheon, 2006 May 11



Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. ~Phil Linz



Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. ~John De Paola



We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. ~Albert Barnes



Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes. ~Gerald Lieberman



If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ~Nan Porter



When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. ~Proverb



Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



Rebooting is a wonder drug - it fixes almost everything. ~Garrett Hazel, "Help Desk Blues," 2002



Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. ~Theodor Billroth



A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. ~Baron de Montesquieu



Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. ~Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972



He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe. ~Lamartine



You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson



Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670



Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. ~Lillian Hellman



It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein



Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. ~Judith Viorst



Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ~Christopher Morley