quotes about january

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. ~Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, 1986



It's too big a world to be in competition with everyone. The only person who I have to be better than is myself. ~Colonel Potter



I expanded with the joy of your love and presence but now that you're gone I just feel bloated. ~Carrie Latet



Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ~Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620



Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success. ~Jim Backus



The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Mark Twain



Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone. ~Georg Simmel



Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. ~Wallace Stevens, 1916



You can't test courage cautiously. ~Anne Dillard



Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it. ~Author Unknown



If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage? ~Marquise de Sevigne



History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another. ~Jacob Burckhardt



He only salutes the flag with one finger. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, about Bart Simpson



Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom. ~Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf, 1967



A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food. ~Henny Youngman



A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies



The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. ~Henry Ford



Inking without a plan gives Booth freedom to explore the desires of those seated in his chair, he says, to feed off their energy, allowing his clients' demons to help guide the needle. ~Joshua Lipton, about tattoo artist Paul Booth, "Bad Skin," Rolling Stone, 28 March 2002



What is stronger than a mother's love? The smell of spring onions on your girl's breath. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902



It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~Grace Hopper