homer simpson quotes

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. ~Winston Churchill



There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~Minnie Aumonier



In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. ~Elliot Chaze



According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else... ~J.K. Rowling, "The Second War Begins," Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003



Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. ~Ninon de Lenclos



Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Some stories are true that never happened. ~Elie Weisel



A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. ~Author Unknown



Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~Emory Austin



In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. ~T.S. Eliot



Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. ~Lord Chesterfield



I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. ~Charles Dickens



A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. ~Pam Brown



In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. ~Christopher Morley



What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1



Obscenity is whatever gives the Judge an erection. ~Author Unknown



It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. ~Colette, My Mother's House, 1922



You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ~Marie Stopes



Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin



The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ~Oscar Wilde