quotes about love and pain
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. ~Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971
All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ~Georges Clemenceau
Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner. ~Stephen Baker
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~Samuel Ullman
Hugging has no unpleasant side effects and is all natural. There are no batteries to replace, it's inflation-proof and non-fattening with no monthly payments. It's non-taxable, non-polluting, and is, of course, fully refundable. ~Author Unknown
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~Albert Einstein, The World As I See It, 1934
History... is an aggregation of truths, half-truths, semi-truths, fables, myths, rumors, prejudices, personal narratives, gossip, and official prevarications. It is a canvas upon which thousands of artists throughout the ages have splashed their conceptions and interpretations of a day and an era. Some motifs are grotesque and some are magnificent. ~Philip D. Jordan
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. ~Chinese Proverb
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ~Saul Bellow
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow. ~Sakyong Mipham
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. ~Sam Ewing
It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. ~Voltaire
We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line. ~Norm Stewart
If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. ~Simeon Strunsky
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. ~James Russell Lowell
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ~Edmund Burke
The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck. ~Andre Dawson, on Montreal
Gipsy gold does not chink and glitter. It gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark. ~Attributed to the Claddaugh Gypsies of Galway
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history. ~P.J. O'Rourke
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