quotes to live by images

A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend. ~Author Unknown



Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ~Agnes Repplier, Points of View



The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ~James Russell Lowell, Democracy and Other Addresses, 1887



Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. ~E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960



The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ~Will Durant



Be a blood and organ donor. All it costs is a little love. ~Author Unknown



The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels. ~Fred Alan Wolfe, Star Wave: Mind Consciousness of Quantum Physics, 1984



A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right. Author Unknown



Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ~Author Unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (*) (Thank you, Frank Lynch.)



When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense. ~David Letterman



The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ~Napoleon I, Maxims



Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. ~Voltaire



Reality bites... and doesn't let go. ~Author Unknown



Anthologies of aphorisms are usually arranged according to themes.... This is not the best method for the aphorism, because it often has several themes and interpretations. ~Markku Envall



I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. ~Richard Rumbold, 1685



It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Beginning," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb



If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. ~Samuel P. Ginder



The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. ~Ernest Hemingway, interview in Paris Review, Spring 1958