Archived Quotes from April 2016
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ~~ Baltasar Gracian
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist. ~~ Rabindranath Tagore
April is the cruelest
month,/
Breeding Lilacs out of the dead land,/
Mixing memory and desire,/
Stirring dull roots with Spring rain. ~~ T. S. Eliot
Indecision is like a stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands, he is called dirty; if he does, he is wasting the water. ~~ African proverb
I used to fear ice cream would be the ruin of me, but I gave up giving it up a long time ago. ~~ Beatrice Lillie
I treat people as if they were telephones. If I met somebody who I don't think likes me, I say to myself, "Bob, this one's just temporarily out of order." You know. Don't break the connection. Just hang up and try again. ~~ Bill Murray [What About Bob?, film, 1991]
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself. ~~ George Burns
Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two weeks before you need it. ~~ Unattributed
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind. ~~ Albert Schweitzer
I tried to save grocery money once, but some of the suggestions were just not practical, like "Don't shop when you're hungry," which eliminated all hours when the store was open. ~~ Erma Bombeck
Do not assume a door is closed; push on it. Do not assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. ~~ Marian Wright Edelman
When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks. ~~ Albert Einstein
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. ~~ Bell Hooks
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. ~~ Amelia Earhart
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. ~~ William McFee
I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. ~~ Bill Dana
I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this--when one is beginning he takes a long breath, for this use a capital. When he stops for a breath, a comma, and when it is all gone, a period. Don't know the use of a semi-colon, but expect it is when one thinks he is out of breath and isn't. ~~ Anne Ellis
What is lovely never dies,
But passes into other loveliness,
Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. ~~ Thomas Bailey
Aldrich
Mirror, mirror, on the wall
I
don't want to hear
One word out of you.
~~ Jean Kerr
Problems are messages. ~~ Shakti Gawain
If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. ~~ Eubie [James Herbert] Blake
Thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break your world by thinking. ~~ Susan Taylor
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing. ~~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~~ Laurence J. Peter
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. ~~ Robert South
Books may well be the only true magic. ~~ Alice Hoffman
Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem. ~~ Jodie Foster
Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~~ William W. Watt
The best advice yet given is that you don't have to take it. ~~ Libbie Fudim
After all, tomorrow is another day. ~~ Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind)