Archives - August 2000 Quotes

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
?Mark Twain ( authors )

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit,
you would stay out and your dog would go in.
?Mark Twain ( authors)

How can you say luck and chance are the same thing?
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterwards.
?Amy Tan ( authors )

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
?Margaret Thatcher ( authors )

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK.
But you've got to shoot for something.
A lot of people don't even shoot.
?Robert Townsend ( authors )

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
?Paul Theroux ( authors )

It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly
is better than not to be able to love at all.
?William Thackery ( authors )

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
?Sara Teasdale ( authors )

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all
women can be fooled some of the time, but the
same woman can't be fooled by the same man
in the same way more than half of the time.
?Helen Rowland ( authors )

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled,
nor the hour which has passed return again.
?Ovid ( authors )

The secret of happy marriage is simple:
Just keep on being as polite to one another
as you are to your best friends.
?Robert Quillen ( authors )

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
?Pablo Picasso ( authors )

Lips that taste of tears, they say
Are the best for kissing.
?Dorothy Parker ( authors )

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles
as trifles and important matters as important.
?Doris Lessing ( authors )

Love is a force. It is not a result; it is a cause.
It is not a product; it produces.
It is a power, like money or steam or electricity.
?Anne Morrow Lindbergh ( authors )

The sin of pride may be a small or
a great thing in someone's life,
and hurt vanity a passing pinprick,
or a self-destroying
or ever murderous obsession.
?Iris Murdoch ( authors )

Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.
?Douglas Jerrold ( authors )

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love friends for their sake
rather than for our own.
?Charlotte Bronte ( authors )

I can't think of any sorrow in the world
that a hot bath wouldn't help,
just a little bit.
?Susan Glaspell ( authors )

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
?Lillian Hellman ( authors )

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with
the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . .
It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket
is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
?Marilyn Ferguson ( authors )

When you realize you want to spend
the rest of your life with somebody,
you want the rest of your life
to start as soon as possible.
?Billy Crystal ( authors )

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks
of coal that stuck to their jobs.
?Malcolm Forbes ( authors )

I think laughter may be a form of courage. . . .
As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun
and laugh, and I think we are never
more brave than when we do that.
?Linda Ellerbee ( authors )

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
?Michael Crichton ( authors )

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him,
one for her, and one for them together.
?Jacqueline Bisset ( authors )

The right word may be effective, but no word was
ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
?Mark Twain ( words )

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
?Dorothy Parker ( tranquility )