good quotes for life

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. ~Art Buchwald, "Adding Insult to Injury," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966



You can't take something off the Internet - it's like taking pee out of a pool. ~Author Unknown, 1995



Apart from yoga, meditation, reading, it has to be one of the most serene things to do (don't lose your needles though, that can create a severe lack of serenity). ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus, about needlepoint



I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot



Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa



If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation. ~Kin Hubbard



The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit. ~Norman Douglas



Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ~Natalie Clifford Barney



What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. ~Barbara Jordan



The body never lies. ~Martha Graham



The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. ~Samuel Johnson



Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer. ~Swami X



The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial. ~Alban Goodier



Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? ~M.C. Escher



It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. ~Aeschylus



The future is always beginning now. ~Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving



It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. ~George E. MacDonald



In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. ~A.L. Kitselman