quotes about people hating on you

"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb



America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ~Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891



May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. ~Ogden Nash



All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason. ~John Henry Cardinal Newman



We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. ~Helen Hayes



The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind. ~Thomas Jefferson, 1813



It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. ~T.S. Eliot, about radio



My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. ~Margot Asquith



Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~Arthur Miller



Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy



Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure has become entertainment. ~Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, 1987



The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ~Robert M. Pirsig



Knock the "t" off the "can't." ~Samuel Johnson



One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow. ~Vincent T. Foss



Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill



Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said, "I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?" ~Bill Watterson



Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. ~Andy Rooney