good quotes about life and love and friends

My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't. ~Author Unknown



People come to Washington believing it's the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine. ~Richard Goodwin



Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823



Quote A: �The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.� ~Henry Steele Commager



They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ~Francis Bacon



One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ~Thomas Fuller



Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. ~Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Laughter



Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~Rabindranath Tagore



This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars: as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacherous by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! ~William Shakespeare



Curlers rock and roll! ~Saying of the sport



If I were a doctor, skipping would be my number one prescription. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else. ~David Chase, The Sopranos, "Pilot," original airdate 10 January 1999, spoken by the character Carmela Soprano



Conversation is the slowest form of human communication. ~Author Unknown



My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925



Skipping is to fly like an angel. ~Opal Montagne



What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. ~Thomas Paine



It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ~Paul Gauguin It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. ~Paul Gauguin



When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox



By night, an atheist half believes in God. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts