holding hands pictures with quotes

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel. ~Robert Morley, 1965



It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. ~Robert M. Pirsig



If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched. ~Terri Guillemets



Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are. ~Neale E. Howard, The Telescope Handbook and Star Atlas, 1967



Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. ~Diogenes



I can't be a rose in any man's lapel. ~Margaret Trudeau



Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does. ~Madge Micheels-Cyrus



Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ~J.K. Rowling



A brave arm makes a short sword long. ~Author Unknown



Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. ~Edgar Saltus



All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. ~Bobby Knight, on reporters



Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. ~Amiel, Journal, 1884



The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie



The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. ~Jean Baptist Colbert, attributed



The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved. ~J. Russel Lynes



If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ~J.K. Rowling, "Padfoot Returns," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Sirius Black



The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. ~Attributed to George Carlin



Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. ~Walter Pater



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



Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~Otto Von Bismark