quotes about haters and drama

If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost



Truism: a statement the truth of which is obvious or well known and whose utterance, therefore, seems superfluous; an undoubted or self-evident truth, especially one too obvious for mention.



Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married. ~Marlo Thomas



All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670



What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. ~Agnes M. Pahro



When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. ~R.C. Sherriff



It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859



They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy. ~Terri Guillemets



Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. ~Leonardo da Vinci



Woman has relied heretofore too entirely for her support on the needle - that one-eyed demon of destruction that slays thousands annually; that evil genius of our sex, which, in spite of all our devotion, will never make us healthy, wealthy, or wise. ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton



Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~Napoleon Bonaparte



I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. ~Claes Oldenburg



It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love. ~Saint Jerome



It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859



Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~Edmund Burke



The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. ~Jawaharlal Nehru



The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there. ~Ellie Rodriguez



The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. ~Peter De Vries