quotes on rainy day

Tears are God�s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. ~Rita Schiano, Sweet Bitter Love, 1997, published by The Reed Edwards Company



The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth. ~William R. Alger



A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested. ~Terri Guillemets



The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. ~Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962



Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus. ~Bob Rubin



The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals. ~Martin H. Fischer



I'm in favor of it as long as it's multiple choice. ~Kurt Rambis, on drug testing



Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973



For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis



Art is the triumph over chaos. ~John Cheever



Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. ~Augusta E. Rundel



It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. ~Victor Hugo



Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering



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



A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world. ~Helen Rowland



Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Quotations for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them. ~James Murray



The more laws the more offenders. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732



I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning. ~Daniel D. Mich