quotes on kindness
Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination. ~Author Unknown
Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. ~A. Bronson Alcott
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists. ~Marianne Moore, "To a Steam Roller"
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Night Flight, 1931, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "All Trivia," Afterthoughts, 1931
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! ~Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Part II
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ~Don Marquis
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! ~E.B. White
Fire takes no holiday. ~Author Unknown
The sixth grade seemed to please him from the beginning: he went through a brief Egyptian Period that baffled me - he tried to walk flat a great deal, sticking one arm in front of him and one in back of him, putting one foot behind the other. He declared Egyptians walked that way; I said if they did I didn't see how they got anything done, but Jem said they accomplished more than the Americans ever did, they invented toilet paper and perpetual embalming, and asked where would we be today if they hadn't? Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 7
The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. ~Hermann Hesse
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around. ~Helen Peters
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. ~Walter Raleigh, History of the World
The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness. ~Walter Gaston Shotwell
Cats conspire to keep us at arm's length. ~Frank Perkins
Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital... the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that. ~Amory Lovins
Elizabeth: Yes, so they could go about persecuting the Indians.