taylor swift quotes about life

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. ~Aristotle



To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. ~Clara Ortega



Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ~Ambrose Bierce



Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ~Aldous Huxley



There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled. ~La Bruyere, Characters, 1688



I never even believed in divorce until after I got married. ~Diane Ford



A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero



Each season of adventure reality television gets more and more challenging. I'm waiting for them to come out with a Survivor: Phoenix in July edition. ~Linda Solegato



A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown



People need to understand that when they're deciding between breastmilk and formula, they're not deciding between Coke and Pepsi.... They're choosing between a live, pure substance and a dead substance made with the cheapest oils available. ~Chele Marmet



Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. ~Laurence J. Peter



A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. ~Psalms 84:10



Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



And the Easter bells be ringing! ~Edna Dean Proctor, "Easter Bells"



Sure there's no "I" in "team," but there is a "ME"! ~Author Unknown Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage? ~Martin H. Fischer



Cancer don't respect nothing. ~David Chase, Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess, and Terence Winter, The Sopranos, spoken by the character Furio Giunta



No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ~Arnold Bennett



I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~H.L. Mencken



There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. ~Joseph de Maistre