famous quotes about dreams

History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~Oscar Wilde



Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems. ~Helen M. Winslow



Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~Otto Von Bismark



Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. ~Jean de la Bruyere



Firefighting - one of the few professions left that still makes house calls. ~Author Unknown



Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring. ~Author Unknown



Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. ~Robert Green Ingersoll



You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy. Coffee is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so. From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat. ~Author Unknown



The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there. ~Monica Baldwin



That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ~Amos Bronson Alcott



Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross



Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it. ~Author Unknown



So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. ~Niccolo Machiavelli



Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray. ~Author Unknown



The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. ~Dawn Fraser



The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not. ~Robert Ingersoll, inscription to Volume I, Collected Works



There are no pockets in a shroud. ~Author Unknown



To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ~Jane Austen



A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. ~Pam Brown