short life quotes to live by

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ~Henry Ford



Basketball is the MTV of sports. ~Sara Levinson



We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. ~William D. Tammeus



No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses. ~Thomas Carlyle, "Count Cagliostro," 1833



Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ~John F. Kennedy



Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. ~Henry David Thoreau



High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us? ~Annita Manning



God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ~John Muir



A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. ~Gloria Steinem A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank. ~Author Unknown



Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. ~Saint Bernard of Clairvaux



Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order and build up a kind of Utopian castle. ~Matti Kuusi



The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~Emile Zola



You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense. ~Jane Pauley



Breaststroke is an athletic event; butterfly is a political statement. ~Paul Tsongas



Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873



The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean. ~Erma Bombeck



The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ~Colin Wilson



You don't have to brush your teeth - just the ones you want to keep. ~Author Unknown

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