father jack quotes

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in few words. ~Samuel Johnson



She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when." ~P.G. Wodehouse



Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. ~Fay Weldon



We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. ~Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939



To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ~Joan Didion



Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring. ~Jimmy Carter



Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. ~Suzanne Necker



Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ~George Bernard Shaw



Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. ~Claude Monet



From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. ~Mabel Louise Robinson



Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can fetter us. Once let men recognize this truth, and the hour of their liberation has struck. Nature cannot enslave the soul that by wisdom has gained power and uses both in love. ~Annie Besant



A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. ~Hortense Calisher, Queenie, 1971



When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. ~Charles Anderson Dana



Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you. ~Ravensara Noite



Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. ~Kin Hubbard



Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. ~John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968



I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden." ~St Augustine



Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb



Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave... ~Dita Von Teese



If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says "keep away from children." ~Susan Savannah