“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain.
In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Kennedy
“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night and the Last Tycoon
“Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.”
― Steve Jobs
“He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.”
– Arthur Miller (1915-2005),
Death of a Salesman
@George,
“Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.”
― Stanley Gordon West,
“Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.”
― Tessa Dare, A Lady of Persuasion
''I gave my children the two cruelest gifts I had to give, which are these, the experience of perfect family happiness, and the certain knowledge that it could not last.''
-Rachel in Ordinary Love by Jane Smiley
“I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.”
― W.H. Auden
@edgarblythe,
Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler
Thank god life is half over."
Al Bundy (character in TV show Married With Children)
@edgarblythe,
"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;--but when a beginning is made--when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt--it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more."
Jane Austen. Emma. Quite a gal eh?
@spendius,
A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening men.
- Julie Burchill
"Why did you rob so many banks?", asked the judge.
Willie Sutton,early fifties outlaw.
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
“Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.”
― Dave Barry
@edgarblythe,
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell
"There's nothing more pathetic than seeing the guy in the club who you think is a little past being there." Paul Stanley
I remember Willie.
