quotes about snowflakes

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? ~Satchel Paige



What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. ~Mark Twain



The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. ~Barbara Tuchman



Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. ~Hannah Arendt



Man is a knot into which relationships are tied. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere



Only Americans can hurt America. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower



I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father." ~Will Rogers



Restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee. ~Robert Burton



Platonic love is love from the neck up. ~Thyra Smater Winsolow



The marriage state, with or without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life. ~Richard Steele, The Spectator



Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1787



The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. ~M.W. Harrison



The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. ~Eric Sevareid, "The Press and the People," television program, 1959



Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an "I" in "team." It is the same "I" that appears three times in "responsibility." ~Amber Harding



Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev



The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. ~William Shenstone



For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Self-love seems so often unrequited. ~Anthony Powell



Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? ~Al Boliska



Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ~W.C. Fields