quotes about life and god

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb



I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. ~Henry Ford



It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot. ~Nubar Gulbenkian, 1972



A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. ~Harry Lauder



Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice. ~Author Unknown



It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling. ~Mark Twain



The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. ~Abraham Lincoln The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win. ~Will Rogers



I don't rent space to anyone in my head. ~Anonymous man on Candid Camera, answering Allen Funt's question about why he had not gotten upset



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If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. ~Alan King



This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~Neil Gaiman



Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" ~Robin Williams



Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ~John Keats



Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~Albert Einstein



You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"



If you ride you know those moments when you have fed yourself into the traffic, felt the hashed-up asphalt rattle in the handlebars, held a lungful of air in a cloud of exhaust. Up ahead there are two parallel buses. With cat's whiskers, you measure the clearance down a doubtful alley. You swing wide, outflank that flower truck. The cross-street yellow light is turning red. You burst off the green like a surfer on a wave of metal. You have a hundred empty yards of Broadway to yourself. ~Chip Brown, "A Bike and a Prayer"



Time sure flies when you skip an hour. ~Jessi Lane Adams



What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. ~Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues, 30 August 1941 What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. ~Archibald MacLeish, "The Premise of Meaning," American Scholar, 5 June 1972



I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. ~George Sanders