Quotes by American Authors - Page 83

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
Norman Cousins
You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro
Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.
Gerald Jampolsky
Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barriers quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace the pursuit must go on.
John F Kennedy
No matter how little money and how few possessions you own having a dog makes you rich.
Louis Sabin
Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Josh Billings
Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman
A dog wags its tail with its heart.
Martin Buxbaum
I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog.
James Thurber
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner
The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
A dog Is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bern Williams
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies.
Gene Hill
Cats are angels with fur.
Sark
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Dogs come when they're called cats take a message and get back to you.
Mary Bly
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
Jane Pauley
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
Dorothy Parker
Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Ambrose Bierce
That they may have a little peace even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
William Feather
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
Daniel Berrigan
There is no such thing as inner peace there is only nervousness and death.
Fran Lebowitz
It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
Bernie S. Siegel
I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety ... we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.
Jerry W. McCant
If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.
Henry Miller
Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.
Charles C. Pinckney
I am not a Virginian but an American.
Patrick Henry
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale
Den I wish I was in Dixie Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.
Daniel D. Emmett
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
W. C. Brann
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur
Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
John Adams
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.
William Faulkner
I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.
Marianne Moore
The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.
Mark Twain
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.
Adlai Stevenson
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.
John Kenneth Galbraith
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
Eric Hoffer
Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
Elliot Paul
The best prophet of the future is the past.
John Sherman
1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Carl Sandburg
I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I prefer love over sex.
Enrique Iglesias
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
Billy Crystal
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Harlan Ellison
I need sex for a clear complexion but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
Hunter S. Thompson
Anyone can be passionate but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
H.L. Mencken