quotes about english

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant



From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes



When your heart speaks, take good notes. ~Judith Campbell



Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ~Elizabeth Bowen



Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. ~Warren Spahn



If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. ~Henry David Thoreau



A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. ~Steve Martin



We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. ~Arnold Toynbee



We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder. ~Paul Vitale



When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. ~Buddha



History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. ~Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors



The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. ~Ellen Glasgow



This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. ~Matthew Arnold



The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place. ~F.K. Richtmeyer



There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. ~Astrid Alauda, on the "hot mom" trend



People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. ~Aristide Briand



Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858



Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned. ~Author Unknown



A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals



The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ~Lane Olinghouse