funny animals with quotes

Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse. ~Bill Press



The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us. ~Terri Guillemets



Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. ~Robert S. Lynd



You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968



They need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. ~Jack Kerouac



Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher



You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson



History is a bath of blood. ~William James, Memories and Studies



Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~Charles Lamb



Eggs cannot be unscrambled. ~American Proverb



Our age will be known as the age of committees. ~Ernest Benn



We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. ~Cynthia Ozick



He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb



Women agonize... over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend's breast. ~Martha Weinman Lear, Heartsounds



The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted. ~Donald Barthelme



Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life. ~Lionel Poilane



Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. ~Golda Meir



The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. ~Simone de Beauvoir



The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic about the bilge when a group of astronomers denounces it. ~Isaac Asimov