quotes and sayings about life and
Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel booby trap. ~Grey Livingston
Alas, the gates of life never swing open except upon death, never open except upon the palaces and gardens of death. And the universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Blood everywhere and, where there is most life, horrible tormentors who dig your flesh, saw your bones, and retract your skin with sinister, joyful faces. ~"The Garden," Chapter 9
I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart. ~Peter Altenberg
The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. ~G.K. Chesterton
Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. ~Muhammad Ali
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens
When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!" ~Rodney Dangerfield
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. ~Bradley Millar
The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight. ~Jesse Livermore
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. ~John Powell
Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what's going on in the country. ~Edmund G. Brown
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown
What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but that He approve ours. ~Helga Bergold Gross
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. ~George Weinberg
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ~Robert Benchley
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. ~Anatole France
The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals. ~Harold J. Laski
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. ~Frank Crane
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