holding hands quotes

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. ~Fulton Oursler



There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. ~Author Unknown



While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. ~Odilon Redon



When safety is a factor, call in a contractor. ~Author Unknown



If you have a web site, it makes your small business look big. ~Natalie Sequera



Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. ~Jeremy Collier Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. ~Samuel Butler



It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author - and not to learn it better. ~Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886



The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. ~John Allen Paulos



We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty. ~George Washington, attributed



Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. ~Andre Gide, Le traite du Narcisse, 1891 Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. ~George Bernard Shaw



Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. ~Thomas Fuller



Usefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. ~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829



Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. ~Author Unknown



Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ~Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves



I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man. ~Romain Gary



Firemen: your worst day is our everyday. ~Michael Perry, volunteer firefighter from Wisconsin, as quoted in Into the Fire, a documentary presented by Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and directed by Bill Couturie



Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891



though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing. ~e.e. cummings



Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. ~Edgar Allan Poe



Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960