famous quotes about women

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ~Doris Day


Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only two sizes: too big and too small. ~Richard Pattis


Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ~Booker T. Washington


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


Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. ~Werner Finck


Turn right, turn left, repeat as necessary. ~Author Unknown


A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray." ~Alan Sherman


We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig


Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Air quotes: the action of using one's fingers to make quotation marks in the air during speech; often used to express some degree of satire, sarcasm, irony, or euphemism.


We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end. ~Owen Young We are only young once. That is all society can stand. ~Bob Bowen


Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. ~Oliver Wendell


To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. ~Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898


The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. ~Author Unknown


The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. ~Marcus Aurelius Antonius


The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge


How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! ~Logan Pearsall Smith


Does breast milk come in chocolate? ~Author Unknown


A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~Erika Harris, lifeblazing.com


A father is available to help his daughter balance both her love and her anger toward her mother, to moderate the inevitable emotional extremes in the intense mother-daughter equation. With Daddy's steadying influence daughters can learn to be comfortable with healthy anger, rather than feeling that they must be eternal good girls who must at all costs conceal it. ~Victoria Secunda