life quotes and sayings for girls

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ~Thomas Mann



Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~Chinese Proverb



Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads. ~Henry David Thoreau



The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say. ~Mark Twain



I like intellectual reading. It's to my mind what fiber is to my body. ~Grey Livingston



When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows. ~Rachel Houston



The Bible may be the truth but it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ~Samuel Butler



The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ~George Bernard Shaw



I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. ~Gloria Steinem



Any day spent sewing, is a good day. ~Author Unknown



To err is human, to purr is feline. ~Robert Byrne



In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



There's no such thing as too late. That's why they invented death. ~From the movie Out to Sea



Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. ~James Joyce



Children make you want to start life over. ~Muhammad Ali



He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ~Edmund Burke, The Revolution in France, 1790



There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~Celia Thaxter



Nostalgia is a seductive liar. ~George Wildman Ball



When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment. ~Steven Halpern



Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. ~Charles Baudelaire