parents fighting quotes

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859



Forget your opponents; always play against par. ~Sam Snead



Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~Margaret Fuller



In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. ~Richard Bach



A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse below and dreams of home. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. ~Bertrand Russell



Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night. ~Grey Livingston



In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935



I think I could fall madly in bed with you. ~Author Unknown



The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Thomas Merton



This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ~Neil Gaiman



A great name for a new country song: If I'd Shot You Sooner, I'd Be Out of Jail by Now. ~Author Unknown



For birth control, I rely on my personality. ~Milt Abel



An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ~Henry David Thoreau



Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne



If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. ~Malcolm X If you're not in New York, you're camping out. ~Thomas E. Dewey



A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. ~Albert Camus



In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. ~Cicero



A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost