quotes about peace and love

Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. ~Mr. Miyagi, The Next Karate Kid, 1994



Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. ~Compton Mackenzie, Literature in My Time, 1933



Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi



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



Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. ~Dion Boucicault



Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. ~Malcolm de Chazal



If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. ~Charlie Lau, 1982



Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. ~Henry David Thoreau



To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you. To be "in fashion" could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue. ~Author Unknown



You heard about the Chinese godfather? He made them an offer they couldn't understand. ~Jason Cahill, The Sopranos, "Meadowlands," original airdate 31 January 1999, spoken by the character Corrado "Junior" Soprano



Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ~Meryl Streep



The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting. ~Michel de Montaigne



Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. ~David Sarnoff



I'm not old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk. ~Edward J. McGrath, Jr., "An Exceptional View of Life," quoted in Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen, 1993



Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651



Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. ~Benjamin Tucker, Instead of a Book