quotes and sayings for facebook

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. ~Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard



It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. ~Arnold Bennett



I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers. ~H.M. Tomlinson



The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. ~Hippocrates, Aphorisms



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If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum



There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. ~Tallulah Bankhead



Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~Alex Haley



I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting. ~Sylvester Stallone



Pleasure is the bait of sin. ~Plato



Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ~Garrison Keillor



To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. ~Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942



I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me. ~Anna Quindlen, Living Out Loud, 1988



What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ~Henry David Thoreau



My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am. ~Author Unknown



A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabian Proverb



Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination. ~Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue, 1925



There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. ~Edwin Denby