quotes about guys

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. ~Robert E. Lee, letter to his wife, 1864



If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me? ~Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, "Free Bird," One More From the Road, 1973, performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd



No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. ~James Allen



The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. ~Peter De Vries



Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ~Merry Browne



Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it. ~Henry S. Haskins



A statesman of the school of sound common sense, and a philanthropist of the most practical type, a patriot without a superior - his monument is a country preserved. ~C.S. Harrington



I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ~Nan Porter



It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. ~Author Unknown



Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ~Henry Louis Mencken, "Sententiae," This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948



Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year. ~Ogden Nash



Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. ~Marcel Proust



There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. ~Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays



The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird



Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working. ~Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top



So let me remind you tonight that change will not be easy. That change will take time. There will be setbacks, and false starts, and sometimes we will make mistakes. But as hard as it may seem, we cannot lose hope. Because there are people all across this country who are counting on us.... ~Barack Obama, 2008 Jan 26, Columbia, South Carolina



When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it. ~French Proverb



Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. ~Truman Capote