quotes about zebras

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune. ~Andrew Carnegie


I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ~Colette


Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~Oscar Wilde


Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. ~Eric Nicol


Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it. ~Author Unknown


The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


A statesman of the school of sound common sense, and a philanthropist of the most practical type, a patriot without a superior - his monument is a country preserved. ~C.S. Harrington


If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ~Woodrow Wilson


Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody


Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classified as cannibals. ~Finley Peter Dunne


There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart. ~Charles Dickens


Virtue is its own revenge. ~E.Y. Harburn


Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! ~Albert Einstein


Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections


We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby. ~Elizabeth Janeway


The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. ~Goethe


Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. ~Alfred Hitchcock


We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~Epictetus


Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw


You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. ~Pearl Williams