quotes and sayings about love and

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. ~Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie



Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ~Henry van Dyke



The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ~Paul Tillich



Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown



I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. ~Dave Barry



I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. ~Mark Twain



When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing. ~Saint Francis of Assisi



I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything. ~George Gissing



Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)



Dreams, and predictions of astrology.... ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Prophecies"



This is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something. ~From the television show Beverly Hills 90210, spoken by the character Steve Sanders



Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food. ~Hippocrates



Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin



Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison



My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch. ~Lee Trevino



There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves, 1962 interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955



The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it. ~Jose Iturbi



To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure. ~Sei Shonagon



Who depends on another man's table often dines late. ~John Ray



"Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17, spoken by the character Holden Caulfield