quotes about rumors

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. ~Al McGuire



When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die. ~Attributed to Jim Elliot



Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. ~Mark Twain



Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum. ~Susan Sontag



Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ~Wendell Berry



Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Give your stress wings and let it fly away. ~Terri Guillemets



Whenever you fall, pick something up. ~Oswald Avery



Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond. ~Kahlil Gibran



His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. ~Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, 1749



If you have a lane, you have a chance. ~Author Unknown



The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ~Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyper Reality, 1986



The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. ~Pamela Hansford Johnson



The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away. ~E.W. Howe



The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination. ~The War Cry



Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu



Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. ~Algernon Charles Swinburne Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ~John Dryden



There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles. ~Author Unknown