quotes on tumblr

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan



Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. ~Horace



Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo



I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it. ~Raymond Chandler



There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam. ~Lord Langdale (Henry Bickersteth)



Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ~Bible, John 15:13



In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. ~Bill Vaughan



I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ~Thomas Browne, An Essay on Death



Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. ~Dag Hammarskjold



The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said. ~Bill Clinton, about the 2000 election



In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878



A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ~Washington Irving



Apothegm: a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation; apothegms are more purposeful philosophical opinions than epithets. Example: "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." ~Lord Acton



Ye cannot serve God and mammon. ~Matthew 6:24



Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer



Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. ~Werner Finck



Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. ~H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques, 1916



We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19



Praise the bridge that carried you over. ~George Colman