anne frank diary quotes
One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. ~Frank Sheed
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay. ~Ralph Blane
The reason why many people are so fond of using superlatives, is, they are so positive that the poor positive is not half positive enough for them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face. ~VP Pappy
Cheerleaders know that pyramids were not built in Egypt. ~Author Unknown
It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ~William Thomas
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881
If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he has to say, and make fun of it. ~Thomas Carlyle
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ~Henry Miller
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ~Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950
War is fear cloaked in courage. ~William Westmoreland
God and angels don't get paid even though theirs is some of the most important work around. Ditto for volunteers. ~Cherishe Archer
One promises much, to avoid giving little. ~Marquis de Vauvenargues
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. ~Betty Friedan
I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
An optimist is the human personification of spring. ~Susan J. Bissonette
Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo. ~Tony Kornheiser
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ~Henry Ford
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter. ~Dave Barry
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