nasty quotes and sayings

Truly to sing, that is a different breath. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Let's have some new cliches. ~Samuel Goldwyn



The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670



We drink one another's health and spoil our own. ~Jerome K. Jerome



True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn



For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. ~Proverbs 24:16



The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb



You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ~Douglas MacArthur



Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. ~Proverbs 31:8-9



Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible. ~James Laver, Style in Costume



Ideas have become far more important to us than action - ideas so cleverly expressed in books by the intellectuals in every field. The more cunning, the more subtle, those ideas are the more we worship them and the books that contain them. We are those books, we are those ideas, so heavily conditioned are we by them. We are forever discussing ideas and ideals and dialectically offering opinions. Every religion has its dogma, its formula, its own scaffold to reach the gods, and when inquiring into the beginning of thought we are questioning the importance of this whole edifice of ideas. We have separated ideas from action because ideas are always of the past and action is always the present - that is, living is always the present. We are afraid of living and therefore the past, as ideas, has become so important to us. ~J. Krishnamurti Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick. Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso. ~Spanish Proverb



High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. ~Christopher Morley



A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash



I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. ~Emily Dickinson



Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb



Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. ~James M. Barrie



The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~Norman Vincent Peale



The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. ~Judge Sturgess



If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. ~Pam Brown