quotes for life

Life is not a final. It's daily pop quizzes. ~Author Unknown



The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



Wall Street criminality is growing by leaps. There are no bounds. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Harmony seldom makes a headline. ~Silas Bent



The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. ~John Locke, 16 May 1699



A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. ~Henry Ford



I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. ~Wendell L. Wilkie



Fooey! The porchlight is burnt out, and I can't see whether it's dark outside or not. ~Dave Beard



Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Perhaps beneath the scoundrel that I am, there lies a misled poet? Perhaps a mystifier who enjoys mystifying himself? ~"The Mission," Chapter 2



Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. ~George Bernard Shaw



It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. ~Edgar W. Howe



To use five crayons. Maybe, not.



My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~William Dement



We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims



We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard



No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires



I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ~John Cage



Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. ~Will Rogers