I have cakes of soap that I bought twenty-five years ago, still in their wrappers, and I am saving them in the perfect confidence that the right day will come to unwrap each one and use it. And there are probably a hundred books downstairs in the library that I am eager to read, have been eager to read for years, yet refuse to read until the day comes, the day that says to me: This is the morning to start Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, or George Borrow, or Psichari, or someone else. Now, in my logical mind, I know quite well that these promised days are not likely ever to arrive: I shall never use those old cakes of soap that are stored in the linen closet, and I am reasonably sure of never reading Romany Rye, because it doesn't interest me. But there is that other person, the ideal one that I ought to be, whom it does interest, and it comforts me to think that those things are waiting for him. —Paul Bowles More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all. —Dr. Joyce Brothers More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more you have, the more you want / And almost weigh down the universe. —Hans Sachs More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Tags: morality business selling selflessness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. —Mad magazine More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them. —Sherwood Anderson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
His rage passes description — the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk who have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted. —J. R. R. Tolkien More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. —Eric Hoffer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. —Kurt Vonnegut Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world. Perhaps you've seen it. —Steven Wright More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is still full of divinity and strangeness, Mr. Shawnessy said. The scientist stops, where all men do, at the doors of birth and death. He knows no more than you and I why a seed remembers the oak of 20 million years ago, why dust acquires the form of a woman, why we behold the earth in space and time. He hasn't yet solved the secret of a single name upon the earth. We may pluck the nymph from the river, but we won't pluck the river from ourselves: this coiled divinity is still all murmurous and strange. There are sacred places everywhere. The world is still man's druid grove, where he wanders hunting for the Tree of Life. —Ross Lockridge More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over. —Marge Piercy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. —Emo Philips More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We do not like to look at the shadow side of ourselves; therefore there are many people in our civilized society who have lost their shadow altogether, have lost the third dimension, and with it they have usually lost the body. The body is a most doubtful friend because it produces things we do not like. . . . Sometimes it forms the skeleton in the cupboard, and everybody naturally wants to get rid of such a thing. —Carl G. Jung More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email