quotes about mean people

Everybody's 12 years old in an apple orchard. ~Rachael Ray, Rachael Ray Show, while making autumn stew, original airdate 11 October 2007



The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli



The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. ~Bishop Mandell Creighton



You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. ~Walter M. Schirra, Sr.



If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859



Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Faith makes things possible, not easy. ~Author Unknown



When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 9, spoken by the character Atticus



One under a tree, one under a bush, one under the water. ~Lee Trevino, describing how he was one under during a tournament



The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. ~Goethe



A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland



Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. ~Elizabeth Goudge



I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling. ~Kimberly Jones



She watched and taught the girls that sang at their embroidery frames while the great silk flowers grew from their needles. ~Louise Jordan Miln, The Feast of Lanterns



If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J. Harris



Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly! ~Author Unknown



Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt. ~Judith Olney



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