black and white quotes about life

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692



Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night. ~Prince Tallyrand



Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ~Shana Alexander



Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon. ~Kim Elizabeth



To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana



Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. ~Russell Lynes



The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor. ~Author Unknown



My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. ~Psalms 119:109



Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. ~Author Unknown



The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, - Necessity and Free Will. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"



Every true genius is bound to be naive. ~J.C.F. von Schiller



There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. ~Woody Allen



Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. ~Henry Ford



You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. ~Franklin P. Jones, referring to the atomic bomb You're booty-blinded. You know what that is? It's like being snow-blinded only it ain't no snow, it's a cute little piece of ass. ~From the movie I Spy



Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you. ~Edward Payson Rod



The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. ~Norbet Platt



Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets



Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? ~Philip G. Hamerton



Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health. ~Mahatma Gandhi