liking someone quotes

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ~Barnett Cocks, attributed



There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. ~John Ruskin



When we look up, it widens our horizons. We see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race. ~Julia Gregson



The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. ~Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History



From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ~Edvard Munch



Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? ~Norman Douglas



You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. ~Samuel Johnson



History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. ~Arthur Miller



Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. ~Franklin P. Jones



Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" ~Robin Williams



All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder. ~Author Unknown



If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~Eric Bentley



These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of. ~George Eliot



Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. ~Mark Twain



The packaging for a microwavable "microwave" dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries. ~David Wann, Buzzworm, November 1990



Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. ~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899



A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown



Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will