marilyn monroe quotes and sayings about life

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ~Jane Austen



The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ~Ralph W. Sockman



Draft beer, not people. ~Attributed to Bob Dylan



Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of. ~Bruce Lansky



Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. ~John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667



If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ~Al Bernstein



We need - and should encourage and honour - not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. ~Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University



Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. ~William Cowper



Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. ~R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience



What's frustrating about being disliked is that it's invariably for the wrong reason. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ~Rich Kulawiec



Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~Dale Carnegie



I say me, knowing all the while it's not me. ~Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable, 1953



If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret. ~Confucius



Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. ~Erma Bombeck



Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. ~Samuel Lichtenberg



You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money. ~Robin Williams



The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. ~John Jay Chapman



Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ~George Allen