cute quotes and sayings about life and love

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. ~Franklin P. Jones



A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. ~Arnold Toynbee



Draft beer, not people. ~Attributed to Bob Dylan



Support your right to arm bears. ~Cleveland Amory (Thank you, Leslie.)



My songs are just little letters to me. ~Ani Difranco



I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. ~Peter Ustinov



Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?"



Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. ~Martin Amis, Money



I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips



For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ~Jonathan Swift, The Drapier's Letter



I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. ~Douglas Adams



Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894



I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air. ~Norm Sloan, on zone defense



Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. ~Lord Chesterfield



Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the Net, it looks like very soon everyone on Earth will have 15 megabytes of fame. ~M.G. Sriram



Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb



There is no such thing as a little garlic. ~A. Baer



I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself. ~Yoko Ono