quotes about yourself for girls

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. ~Arabic Proverb



Paraprosdokian: figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part. Example: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." ~Groucho Marx



I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz



The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ~John, Viscount Morley, Address on Aphorisms



Do not nurse a kid who wears braces. ~Author Unknown, "Nursing Mother Principle"



Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. ~Samuel Beckett



It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~Grace Hopper



Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. ~Proverbs 3:17



We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber



War makes thieves and peace hangs them. ~George Herbert



The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859



Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ~Bertrand Russell, Look, 1954



Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. ~Shunryu Suzuki



I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. ~Malcolm Muggeridge, 1962



Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. ~Matthew 6:19-21



Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. ~Regina Nadelson



Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. ~Sebastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort



Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. ~Eric Nicol



The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex. ~Wynonna Judd



An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. ~Will Rogers