quotes about people who need to grow up

Grammar is the grave of letters. ~Elbert Hubbard


As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. ~Solomon Ibn Gabirol


I like my coffee like my women: hot, strong, steamy. ~Author Unknown


Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. ~Rosalind Russell


Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. ~Francis A. Walker


Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~Satchel Paige, 1974


Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~John LeCarre


He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation... For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.... We, therefore... solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States. ~The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies, 1776


A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


...for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo," about a sculpture, translated by Stephen Mitchell


If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~Albert Einstein


The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. ~Joseph Conrad


Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ~George Bernard Shaw


For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. ~Terri Guillemets


I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. ~Jules Renard


When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. ~Tuli Kupferberg


Isn't it a violation of the Georgia sodomy law for the Supreme Court to have its head up its ass? ~Letter to Playboy magazine, February 1987


We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. ~Charles Caleb Colton


I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com