an education quotes

Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place. ~Carrie Latet



It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich



It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. ~La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665



The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all. ~Milton Mayer



If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner. ~H.S. Leigh



We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder. ~Paul Vitale



Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872



I believe in God; I just don't trust anyone who works for him. ~Author Unknown



Tooth decay was a perennial national problem that meant a mouthful of silver for patients, and for dentists a pocketful of gold. ~Claudia Wallis Top off the tea... it lubricates the grey matter. ~Good Neighbors, quoted from stashtea.com



To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. ~J.B. Priestley, The Good Companions, 1928



Sun spreads through the treetops like an epidemic. ~Dave Bonta, from The Morning Porch blog at www.morningporch.com/post/96792742/orange-tabby



A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. ~Author Unknown



If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies. ~Barbara Ehrenreich If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler



I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants. ~Dave Beard



Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605



I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. ~Simon Gray I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. ~George McGovern



Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley. ~Author Unknown



Gone fishin', be back at dark-thirty! ~Author Unknown



Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. ~Madeleine de Scudery



Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS. ~Gene Perret