nice quotes on love and life

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ~Henry Ward Beecher



"After all, golf is only a game," said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is a kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying. ~P.G. Wodehouse, Order by Golf, 1922



The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. ~William S. Burroughs



What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man? ~Rita Mae Brown



Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley



Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. ~Esa Tikkannen, 1979



Poker is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find outside an advertising agency. ~Raymond Chandler



A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. ~Doug Linder



I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do. ~From the television show Scrubs



I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. ~Robert Bosch



A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it. ~John Loengard, "Pictures Under Discussion"



Children are for people who can't have dogs. ~Author Unknown



You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. ~Ruth E. Renkl



Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison



It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love. ~Saint Jerome



Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. ~Luis Bu�uel



Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894



The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. ~Thurgood Marshall



Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all the others, and if need be against all the others. ~Romain Rolland



Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit. ~Robert Brault, 1973, www.robertbrault.com