The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. ~Lady Marguerite Blessington The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. ~Lady Marguerite Blessington
I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely. ~Joe E. Lewis
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. ~Mark Twain
Have you hugged yourself today? ~Anonymous
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Extract: a passage from a literary work.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. ~Barbara Bush
The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. ~Joseph Collins
I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out. ~George Foster, 1978
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. ~Ralph Nader
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. ~Henry David Thoreau
It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. ~Abraham Lincoln
So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830, translated
You must weed your mind as you would weed your garden. ~Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. ~Tom O'Connor
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. ~Kenko Yoshida
If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
God - but a word invoked to explain the world. ~Prat de Lamartine
Dust is just a country accent. ~Author Unknown