quotes about keeping it real

Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. ~Linda Solegato



You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp



Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. ~The Talmud



A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies



History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make. ~Author Unknown



Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax. ~Mike Royko, 1981



Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser



Her needlework both plain and ornamental was excellent, and she might have put a sewing machine to shame. ~James Edward Austen-Leigh, about Jane Austen



The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill



Great knightly soul who came in time to serve his country's need. ~Margaret E. Sangster



The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. ~William Lyon MacKenzie



What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. ~Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues, 30 August 1941 What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. ~Archibald MacLeish, "The Premise of Meaning," American Scholar, 5 June 1972



Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown



God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. ~Jens Jensen, Siftings, 1939



We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time. ~Thomas Carlyle



Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ~Henry Ford



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



Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891