quotes about peace and love

Jews don't go camping. Life is hard enough as it is. ~Carol Siskind



When a guy goes to a hooker, he's not paying her for sex, he's paying her to leave. ~Author Unknown



Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.



A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1955



The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~Thomas Edison



The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. ~Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity, 1974



Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money. ~Author Unknown



Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~Novalis



There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. ~Robert Orben



Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. ~Bill Bradley



Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. ~Alfred North Whitehead



A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Age is a prison from which we cannot escape. ~Morrow Bourne



I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose. ~Mary Todd Lincoln



Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. ~Arthur Helps, Essays Written in Intervals of Business, 1841



You're only as sick as your secrets. ~Author Unknown



Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will



Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. ~E.V. Lucas