quotes for grandma

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ~Paul Valery



Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. ~Andy Grove



The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. ~David Mamet



People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860



Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about. ~Beverly Mickins



Light is good from whatever lamp it shines. ~Author Unknown



The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. ~Wendell Phillips, attributed



Dance is the hidden language of the soul. ~Martha Graham



The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. ~Robert Gallagher



It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption. ~Edward Bunyard



The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. ~Ezra Pound



Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836



Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. ~Latin Proverb



Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9



If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ~Stanley Garn



Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. ~Margaret Millar



If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam



Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius



The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ~Eric Hoffer, The True Believer