pics of quotes about life

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ~Dave Barry



If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ~Louis D. Brandeis



There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994



The pursuit of happiness: skipping is your best chance of catching it. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ~Rita Rudner



Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. ~Jim Bishop, "On the English Countryside," NY Journal-American, 28 September 1957, quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations compiled by James B. Simpson



Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. ~Honore de Balzac



People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. ~Neil Postman



History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate



When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? ~Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580



One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



Faith makes things possible, not easy. ~Author Unknown



True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. ~Anthony Robbins



Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. ~Abraham Lincoln



Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley



The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. ~National Review



The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light. ~Matthew 6:22



Axiom: a statement universally accepted as true; a maxim widely accepted on its intrinsic merit; an established rule or principle or a self-evident truth. Example: "Goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services."



Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling. ~George Gordon Byron