quotes for loneliness

What passion cannot music raise and quell! ~John Dryden



Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb



Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since. ~Dave Beard



Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. ~Martin F. Tupper



Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to God for a faith lift. ~Author Unknown



Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley



Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ~William Shakespeare



Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894



Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. ~St. Jerome



You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. ~Lillian Gish



If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. ~Lois Wyse



A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu



How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause. ~Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil



Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski



Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. ~Murphy's Law



A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. ~George Matthew Adams



The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. ~David Thelen



Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches. ~Proverbs 24:3