quotes and sayings

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. ~Henri Amiel



Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. ~Aretaeus



Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb



A woman needs two animals - the horse of her dreams and a jackass to pay for it. ~Author Unknown



Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein



Lost time is never found again. ~Benjamin Franklin



A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~Aesop, Fables



One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ~Walter Bagehot



Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. ~Erma Bombeck



Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones. ~Camille Paglia



The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. ~Morris Mandel



I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes - each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs - quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words. ~Laurence Sterne



Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678



I prefer to think of them as the Ten Suggestions. ~Author Unknown



"It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 8



We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that. ~Bernard Malamud, The Natural



A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. ~Samuel Butler



You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ~Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis



The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ~Proverbs 22:7



Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You