quotes on smile and tears

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. ~Sholem Asch


Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. ~Tennessee Williams


Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle? ~Flann O'Brien


What greater gift than the love of a cat? ~Charles Dickens


Sudden acquaintance brings repentance. ~Thomas Fuller


Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. ~Adam Clarke


Inspiration: a peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God. ~Voltaire


Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe. ~Thomas Heywood, "Dialogues"


My other car is a Zamboni. ~Hockey Saying


Lying lips are abomination to the Lord. ~Proverbs 12:22


We understand nature by resisting it. ~Gaston Bachelard, La Formation de l'esprit scientifique, 1938


Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. ~Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893


The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out. ~Author Unknown


The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. ~Charles DeLint


I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn


Filthy water cannot be washed. ~African Proverb


I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. ~Bob Seger, "Against the Wind"


When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and 72 in Los Angeles. ~Neil Simon


Labradors are lousy watchdogs. They usually bark when there is a stranger about, but it is an expression of unmitigated joy at the chance to meet somebody new, not a warning. ~Norman Strung


I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. ~Richard Livingstone