sisters forever quotes

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. ~Franklin P. Adams



When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat. ~Author Unknown



Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness



Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. ~Author Unknown



Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. ~Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica



When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break. ~William Hale White



No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ~Bertrand Arthur William Russell, On Education, 1926



Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? ~Norman Douglas



Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ~Romans 12:21



If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters. ~Anita Bryant



Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately. ~Reggie Williams, when asked his greatest strengths as a football player



Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ~Robert Orben



I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damned things. ~Dorothy Parker



Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? The mass of men serve the State thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.... In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. ~Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience



Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights.... Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven. ~William T. Piper



Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat. ~Thomas A. Bailey



Your heart knows not how to lie. It is great that it lays deep in your chest and not in your mouth. ~Kak Sri



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



If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius Vanderbilt