quotes on life

If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams. ~Terri Guillemets



Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third. ~Knute Rockne



Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. ~Charles Simmons



I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial. ~Alban Goodier



Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me. ~Lord Chesterfield



To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. ~Will and Ariel Durant



The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra. ~Author Unknown



The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. ~Harlan Mills



"In good prose (says Schlegel) every word should be underlined!" that is, every word should be the right one; and then no one would be righter than another. There are no italics in Plato. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ~Havelock Ellis



Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. ~William Wordsworth



States!... Go put your creed into your deed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures. ~Earl Warren, quoted in Sports Illustrated, 22 July 1968



Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. ~Lord Reading, on speechmaking



When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. ~Prince Philip



Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~Dave Barry



Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing? ~Dave Shiflett, quoted in Houston Chronicle, 29 April 1990



A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short. ~Andre Maurois



It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ~Paul Gauguin It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ~Paul Gauguin