xanga friendship quotes

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ~Albert Schweitzer



There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ~Ansel Adams



What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan



A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. ~Richard Reeves



I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. ~Mark Twain



God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ~W.E. Channing



I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine. ~Alfred North Whitehead



When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. ~Albert Einstein



Art gallery? Who needs it? Look up at the swirling silver-lined clouds in the magnificent blue sky or at the silently blazing stars at midnight. How could indoor art be any more masterfully created than God's museum of nature? ~Grey Livingston



Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. ~Author Unknown



That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. ~John Burroughs, Journal



I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. ~A. Whitney Brown



Aspire to a lower level of harm. ~Anonymous



What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? ~W.H. Auden



Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen



Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. ~Lemony Snicket



I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ~Isaac Newton



Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ~George Bernard Shaw



The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. ~Robert Graves