taylor swift quotes from lyrics

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. ~Remy de Gourmont



There is this to be said for walking: It's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog. ~Edward Abbey



The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. ~Norman Mailer



It takes more love to share the saddle than it does to share the bed. ~Author Unknown



Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little. ~Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen



Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov



The hardest work in the world is being out of work. ~Whitney Young, Jr.



Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again. ~Lady Bird Johnson



One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde



Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. ~Chuck Palahniuk



There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. ~Alexander Smith



I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman



A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. ~Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible



The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate. ~Bern Williams



The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~Martin H. Fischer



You know you live in Phoenix when you can drive four hours in any one direction and never leave the Valley. ~Author Unknown



Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw



The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. ~Ellen Glasgow



A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed