Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. —Josh Billings More about this quote Tags: love perspective envy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. —Dorothy Parker More about this quote Tags: children home parenting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: life happiness hell Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. —John Ruskin More about this quote Tags: quality economics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. —Anthony Trollope More about this quote Tags: law gravity inevitability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Good taste is the enemy of comedy. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Tags: comedy taste Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. —A.R. Ammons More about this quote Tags: attention wonder beauty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Self-love is the source of all our other loves. —Pierre Corneille More about this quote Tags: love self-love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. —Timothy Leary More about this quote Tags: humor feminism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. —Peter McArthur More about this quote Tags: ego satire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. —Henry Ward Beecher More about this quote Tags: love religion worship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. —Isaac Asimov More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. —Elizabeth Bowen More about this quote Tags: knowledge ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. —Ray Bradbury More about this quote Tags: wonder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: silence talk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email