Quotes by Authors - Page 152

Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.
Anonymous
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Anonymous
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
E. Joseph Cossman
He's so old his social security number is two digits.
Brian Morgan
The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.
Phyllis Diller
The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
Sir Francis Bacon
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.
Edward Noyes Westcott
Oh God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
Eric Hoffer
Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.
Elizabeth Bowen
In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create as it were a new picture a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interest for them we in a strange sense wish to and do start life anew.
Ann N. Bridge
Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
Elizabeth Bowen
The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.
Lewis Hastings
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.
Marcel Proust
When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.
George Orwell
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm
A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.
Edgar Watson Howe
I was born modest not all over but in spots.
Mark Twain
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W.H. Auden
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Maggie Kuhn
The opinions which we hold of one another our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent save in appearance but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
Marcel Proust
I wish everybody would go back into the closet.
Josefa Heifetz
Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
Sir Francis Bacon
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.
George Eliot
Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine or to "image forth."
Dane Rudhyar
The engineering is secondary to the vision.
Cynthia Ozick
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
Joyce Carol Oates
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
Dorothea Brande
You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.
Sheila Ballantyne
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Margaret Atwood
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. LeGuin
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.
Anonymous
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.
Ross Parmenter
We live on the leash of our senses.
Diane Ackerman
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
Dorothea Brande
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
Hold your head high stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson
To hope is not to demand.
Anonymous
Hope sees the invisible feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
Anonymous
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me and nothing before me but hope.
Louis L'Amour
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
Orison Swett Marden
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
Gloria Steinem
In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.
O. Carl Simonton
Faith hope and charity-if we had more of the first two we'd need less of the last.
Anonymous
Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable Faith means believing the unbelievable And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.
G.K. Chesterton
It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.
Nancy Thayer
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
Petronius
The happy ending is our national belief.
Mary McCarthy
Grass grows at last above all graves.
Julia Dorr
Hope ... is not a feeling it is something you do.
Katherine Paterson
Hope is a song in a weary throat.
Pauli Murray
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
G.K. Chesterton
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
Ambrose Bierce