quotes about sadness

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. ~Abraham Lincoln



Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~Daniel J. Boorstin, Democracy and Its Discontents



Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. ~G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, 1910



Belief is when someone else does the thinking. ~Buckminster Fuller, 1972



This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke. ~Jane Grigson



The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. ~A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture



I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. ~Hippolyte Taine



Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Education," 1905



I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. ~Ellen DeGeneres



I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. ~Mary Wollstonecraft



Life only starts when love comes. ~From the movie Bill of Divorcement, 1932



I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. ~Maya Angelou



Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways. ~Will Rogers



Drinking nature is an unquenchable thirst. ~Berri Clove



"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini



You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu



Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ~G.K. Chesterton

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