quotes on your wall

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. ~Daniele Vare


The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop. ~William Withey Gull


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


In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again.... We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. ~Enid Bagnold, Autobiography, 1969


You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. ~Bernard M. Baruch


I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. ~Henry Moore


Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. ~Katharine Hepburn


If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler


It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ~Noel Coward, Blithe Spirit


In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness. ~Phillips Brooks


American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. ~Sue Lawley, 1985


It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ~Herman Melville


This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. ~Orson Scott Card


Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well. ~Art Rosenbaum


I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. ~Lee Grant


We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker. ~Terri Guillemets


A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. ~Author Unknown


I always fear that creation will expire before teatime. ~Sydney Smith


Where thou art - that - is Home. ~Emily Dickinson


I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~Michelangelo