quotes on quitting

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ~Soren Kierkegaard



Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi



Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ~Reinhold Niebuhr



Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall



I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H



Everyone has a price - mine is chocolate. ~Author Unknown



The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. ~William S. Burroughs



The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. ~Ted Morgan



I don't know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot. ~Marilyn Monroe



Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy. ~Martin H. Fischer



No one could give her such soothing and sensible consolation as this little three-month-old creature when he lay at her breast and she felt the movement of his lips and the snuffling of his tiny nose. ~Leo Tolstoy



Life is two-riffic with twins. ~Author Unknown



With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value



You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. ~Tim McCarver, who caught all of Steve Carlton's games, 1977



Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. ~From the television show The Wonder Years



Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. ~Sebastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort



I'm always top banana in the shock department. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. ~Jack Handey



My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop. ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart