quotes on confusion

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ~Earl Warren



Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown



I'm like King Midas in reverse, here. Everything I touch turns to shit. ~Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, The Sopranos, "Isabella," original airdate 28 March 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano



Angels skip, fairies skip, children skip - why can't you and I skip? ~Jessi Lane Adams



Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ~Percy Byshe Shelley



Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. ~Aldous Huxley



Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. ~William Lloyd Garrison



My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe. ~Faye Moskowitz



A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown



The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ~Karl Marx



There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. ~Abraham Lincoln



When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain



My favorite animal is steak. ~Fran Lebowitz



Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ~Robert Ingersoll Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau



Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you? ~Author Unknown



A man�s heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb



How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver



Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. ~Anne Sexton



Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You