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Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings


The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. ~African Proverb


I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln


Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it. ~Luke Salisbury


Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli


Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb


Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices. ~Edgar Argo


If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb


Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of. ~D.M. Thomas


What is soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. ~Ray Charles


They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb


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


I like making a piece of string into something I can wear. ~Author Unknown


We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?" ~k.d. lang


Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. ~Author Unknown


It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ~Oscar Wilde


One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ~Thomas Fuller


Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident. ~P.J. O'Rourke


If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb


The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded. ~Hasidic Saying

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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow


For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. ~Maya Angelou


Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967


Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. ~Richard Lamm


In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it. ~John Updike, A Month of Sundays, 1975


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


A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski


You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. ~Christopher Marlowe


Our siblings. They resemble us just enough to make all their differences confusing, and no matter what we choose to make of this, we are cast in relation to them our whole lives long. ~Susan Scarf Merrell


The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh. ~Robert Ludlum The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. ~Gerard Piel


The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck


The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ~William Gibson


My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Gramma, do you know how you and God are alike?" I mentally polished my halo while I asked, "No, how are we alike?" "You're both old," he replied. ~Author Unknown


Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. ~Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851


A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. ~Hazel Nicholson


My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it's surprising how often they head in your direction. ~Author Unknown


I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. ~Comte de Mirabeau


If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides. ~Old Yiddish Proverb


Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. ~Aldous Huxley


There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault.com~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

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


Time is a physician that heals every grief. ~Diphilus


Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. ~Astrid Alauda


I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes. ~Author Unknown


All sorrows are less with bread. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote


The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about. ~Don Marquis


I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. ~Abraham Lincoln


The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ~Rebecca West


I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. ~George Bernard Shaw


The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. ~Germaine Greer


Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat - at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales. ~Mark Twain


Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds. ~Author Unknown


Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics. ~Leighann Lord


Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. ~William Shakespeare, Henry VI


A meow massages the heart. ~Stuart McMillan


Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. ~W.C. Fields


Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish. ~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954


Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ~Orson Welles


This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. ~Brooks Atkinson


I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes. ~Tommy Tune, on why he never considered playing basketball

quotes about growing up and life

Your heart knows which path leads to joy and your mind keeps you on the right track. ~J Beard, @promoterofpeace


Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. ~Walt Whitman


Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said, "I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?" ~Bill Watterson


I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. ~Benjamin Franklin


The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours. ~Arthur S. Reber, The New Gambler's Bible


And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown


"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive. ~Gene Perret


Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone. ~Deborah Whipp


In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn


Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. ~Antoine Rivarol


When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do. ~Darryl Dawkins


Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ~Norman Mailer


Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. ~Bob Lemon


We must be our own before we can be another's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell


To teach is to learn twice. ~Joseph Joubert, Pensees, 1842


No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays in The Art of Writing


My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ~Michel de Montaigne


A margin of life is developed by Nature for all living things - including man. All life forms obey Nature's demands - except man, who has found ways of ignoring them. ~Eugene M. Poirot, Our Margin of Life, 1978


The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him. ~Leo J. Burke

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ~David Storey


To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ~Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved


After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ~J.K. Rowling


Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker. ~William Green


Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy. Coffee is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so. From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat. ~Author Unknown


If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. ~Robert G. Ingersoll


A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. ~Barbara Walters


There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. ~Astrid Alauda, on the "hot mom" trend


No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time. ~Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities


How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. ~Oscar Wilde


If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick's Day you get what you want very much but haven't wished for. ~Patricia Lynch


You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. ~Stephen King, The Stand


Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi


A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ~Niccolo Machiavelli


I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. ~Arthur C. Clarke


Long A: The Quote Garden began in 1987 when I was 13 years old and read The Scarlet Letter. As I was reading, I noticed some sentences that I really liked and wrote them on a notepad as I went along. And that is where my passion for quotations began. From then on I obsessively wrote down any short excerpts I liked and kept my collection on paper and in WordStar for CP/M as well as turning my favorites into amateur mini-posters and taping them to my bedroom walls. In early 1998 I began sharing my collection with the world by starting a site on GeoCities and learning HTML. Both the site and my obsession for quotes grew quickly with this new platform for sharing. I moved to quotegarden.com in 2001 and continue to this very day maintaining the site by typing every quote and piece of code from scratch into Notepad, and carrying paper and pen with me everywhere I go in case I see anything quotable! Believe it or not, I have yet to finish placing my entire collection online, there are still thousands of quote-scribbled scraps of paper here and there, torn-edged articles with highlighting, etc which I will eventually get around to posting.


Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. ~Arthur Freed


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After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown


Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. ~E.V. Lucas

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The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite! ~Walter Winchell


The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. ~Peter F. Drucker


Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~Arthur C. Clarke


Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. ~Author Unknown


Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard


Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert


The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness. ~Henry David Thoreau


If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare. ~William Arnot


One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn


Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~George Eliot


History begins in novel and ends in essay. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay


Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?... Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold


If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. ~Michael Bamberger


People have become as processed as food. ~Astrid Alauda


The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell. ~Martin H. Fischer


Truth is no Doctoresse, she takes no degrees at Paris or Oxford... but oftentimes to such an one as myself, an Idiota or common person, no great things, melancholizing in woods where waters are, quiet places by rivers, fountains, whereas the silly man expecting no such matter, thinketh only how best to delectate and refresh his mynde continually with Natura her pleasaunt scenes, woods, water-falls, or Art her statelie gardens, parks, terraces, Belvideres, on a sudden the goddesse herself Truth has appeared, with a shyning lyghte, and a sparklyng countenance, so as yee may not be able lightly to resist her. ~Charles Lamb


Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill


The more I see of men, the more I like dogs. ~Madame de Stael

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Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee. ~Stephanie Piro


When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom


Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax


Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. ~Walter Lippmann


You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. ~George Mikes


Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. ~Robert Burton, "Anatomy of Melancholy," Democritus to the Reader, 1621


hatred bounces ~e.e. cummings


A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. ~Ansel Adams


If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? ~Mark Twain


You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting. ~Rose Maccaulay


Our minds are lazier than our bodies. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678


The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~Author Unknown


Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ~Abbott Joseph Liebling, "Do You Belong in Journalism?" New Yorker, 4 May 1960


Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires


More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination. ~Wilbur Wright


Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.... I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. ~Dave Barry


If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. ~Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir


In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men. ~Mary Renault


When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ~Joyce Brothers


Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"

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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ~Bertrand Russell, Look, 1954


I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. ~Mark Twain


Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos. ~Don Kardong


Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. ~John Erskine


Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer


I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. ~Daniel Boone


I had burned my candle at both ends, and I was weary of these perilous and precarious adventures which had led me - whither? I was experiencing mental fatigue, a paralysis of my energies, and all my faculties were diminishing while still in their prime, sapped by neurasthenia. Ah, how I regretted not having followed the straight roads of life! ~"The Mission," Chapter 3


It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything. ~John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690


Catching a yellow-jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary. ~Author Unknown


The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ~Joseph Campbell


No nation is fit to set in judgment upon any other nation. ~Woodrow Wilson


No one ever excused his way to success. ~Dave Del Dotto


Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic; it's all going down, man. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk


I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown


Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren


Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick


Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ~Mao Zedong


When life gives you scraps, make something with them. ~Author Unknown

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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. ~Mark Twain


Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. ~Aldous Huxley Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. ~Aldous Huxley


Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum. ~Terri Guillemets


Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow. ~Henry S. Haskins


He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. You need to take up the challenges that we face as a nation and make them your own, not because you have an obligation to those who are less fortunate, although you do have that obligation. Not because you have a debt to all of those who helped you get to where you are, although you do have that debt. You need to take on the challenge because you have an obligation to yourself. Because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realize your true potential. And if we're willing to share the risks and the rewards this new century offers, it will be a victory for each of you, and for every American. ~Barack Obama, Knox College Commencement, 2005 Jun 04, Galesburg, Illinois


Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months. ~William D. Tammeus


And Christ is risen today! ~George Newell Lovejoy


It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity. ~Maurice Barrees, La Grande Pitie des eglises de France, 1914


Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. ~W.J. Cameron


The greatest truths are the simplest: so likewise are the greatest men. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Flies spread disease - keep yours zipped. ~Author Unknown


The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth


Death is a debt we all must pay. ~Euripides


Oh, one world at a time! ~Henry David Thoreau, when asked about afterlife


From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. ~Honore de Balzac


Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen


The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones. ~Gabirol (Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol), The Choice of Pearls


The love game is never called off on account of darkness. ~Tom Masson


There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. ~Andrew Carnegie