beautiful quotes on pictures

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~Muhammad Ali



God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. ~Richard J. Needham



Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover. ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons



The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. ~Walter Lippman



I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ~Orson Welles



If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ~W. Beran Wolfe



The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~Jean Cocteau



There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. ~Iris Murdoch



But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade. ~Leo Buscaglia



Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. ~Albert Einstein



The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what "the story of the trees" would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand. ~Author Unknown, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938



In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend. ~Catherine Killigrew



Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. ~George Jean Nathan, House of Satan



The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. ~Gustave Flaubert



Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. ~Marlene Dietrich



A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



A watched child never learns. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever. ~Ashley Montague



Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply... ~Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814