funny baby quotes

...for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo," about a sculpture, translated by Stephen Mitchell



The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ~William Shakespeare



Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. ~Jean Cocteau



According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else... ~J.K. Rowling, "The Second War Begins," Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003



People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. ~George William Russell



It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ~Albert Einstein



Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ~C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958



This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. ~Charles de Gaulle



Men who never get carried away should be. ~Malcolm Forbes



Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle



I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. ~Ellen DeGeneres



Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: from academe A modern school where football is taught. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ~Mahatma Gandhi



Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations.... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them "operators" or "programmers." ~Peter F. Drucker



Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. ~Remy de Gourmont



People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem. ~Chris Adams



I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. ~Reuben Blades



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In jealousy there is more self-love than love. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665