quotes and sayings marilyn monroe

If you want to kill time, try working it to death. ~Sam Levonson



We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. ~June Jordan



Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it. ~Richard Lamm



Procrastination is like masturbation. At first it feels good, but in the end you're only screwing yourself. ~Author unknown, possibly from Monty Python?



Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. ~Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest



I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~Bill Cosby



There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown



My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ~Pablo Picasso



Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. ~Marion Howard



The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.



If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? ~Aleksander Solzhenitsyn



Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. ~Bert Murray



Circa: Latin, literally meaning about; used to describe various dates that are uncertain; often abbreviated c. or ca.



There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. ~Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945



The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



A year from now you may wish you had started today. ~Karen Lamb



Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart's blood, as we write with it, turns to mere dull ink. ~F.H. Bradley



Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. ~Philip Melanchthen



Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ~Ed Howe



I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. ~Stanislaw J. Lec, More Unkempt Thoughts

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