rose day quotes

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ~Robert Frost



My theory is that men are no more liberated than women. ~Indira Gandhi



I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. ~Katharine Butler Hathaway



In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. ~Charles Kendall Adams



Whatever the American's are proud of - whatever they consider to be particularly good, useful, brilliant, or characteristic of themselves or their climate, they designate, half in jest, though scarcely half in earnest, as an "institution." Thus the memory of George Washington... is an institution; the Falls of Niagara are an institution; the Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot, is an institution...; "Sweet potatoes" are an institution, and Pumpkin (or Punkin) pie is an institution; ...squash is an institution; Bunker Hill is an institution; and the firemen of New York are a great institution. ~Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, 1850



A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. ~Author Unknown



All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ~Frank Moore Colby



If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could! ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ~Ambrose Bierce



Money may talk, but chocolate sings. ~Author Unknown



We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860



I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. ~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary



A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ~Leo Rosten



A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition. ~Clare Whiting



A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb



Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. ~Marcel Proust



Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic



Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark



Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. ~Hermann Hesse