quotes about growing up

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. ~Washington Irving, adapted from a verse in the Bible



Fear cannot take what you do not give it. ~Christopher Coan, @Wisetree63



The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected. ~Stephen Lacey, Scent in Your Garden, 1991



Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret



Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket. ~Author Unknown



I hate women because they always know where things are. ~Voltaire



Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources. ~W.H. Carothers



A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. ~George Jean Nathan



Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee. ~Alexander King



A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. ~John D. Rockefeller, Jr.



Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. ~Thomas a Kempis



There are much easier things in life than finding a good man. Nailing Jell-O to a tree, for instance. ~Author Unknown



I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. ~Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan



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



I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. ~Mark Twain



We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ~Jean de La Bruyere



He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859



Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Player Piano