quotes about nieces

Goodness is beauty in the best estate. ~Christopher Marlowe



At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche. ~Carl Jung



In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ~Eric Hoffer, The True Believer



An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~Brendan Gill



Entire new continents can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the Department of Motor Vehicles. ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry in Cyberspace



I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. ~Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Our Girls"



Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. ~Juan Ramon Jimenez



Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~Leo Tolstoy



The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ~Antisthenes



The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. ~Author Unknown



In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. ~Anton Chekhov



Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you are as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? ~Brian Kernighan



Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused - as remarkable you might say - as most women. ~Jane Howard



My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't. ~Author Unknown



The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. ~Aldous Huxley



My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ~Aldous Huxley



I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ~Alan Watts



The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ~Aldous Huxley