life philosophy quotes

It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9



The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. ~Patrick Murray



A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda



If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17



The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963



There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. ~Madeleine K. Albright



Seagulls... slim yachts of the element. ~Robinson Jeffers



Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. ~James E. Starrs



To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. ~Lord Chesterfield



There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. ~G.K. Chesterton



An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb



If you're enough lucky to be Irish, you're lucky enough! ~Irish Saying



Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose. ~Woodrow Wilson



He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. ~Albert Einstein



Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. ~Bill Veeck



Jesus saves... passes to Moses... shoots... scores! ~Author Unknown



We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? ~Robert Penn Warren, Segregation



Ice cream cravings are not to be taken lightly. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



We must care for each other more, and tax each other less. ~Bill Archer



If something smells fishy, the neurotic knows everything is going just right. ~Terri Guillemets