quotes for hope

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. ~Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living: Diaries



Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. ~Denis Waitely



Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. ~Regina Nadelson



Never have children, only grandchildren. ~Gore Vidal



The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness. ~Kahlil Gibran



Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve. ~Andy Rooney



As the poet said, "only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ~Woody Allen



As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. ~Orson Scott Card



From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man. ~Stephen Vincent Benet



Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain



I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal. ~John Waters, quoted in The Portable Curmudgeon Redux, compiled & edited by Jon Winokur, 1992



Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel



The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891



He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. ~Mae West



One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane



I always wanted to be Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up. I can't fly, but swimming is the next best thing. It's harmony and balance. The water is my sky. ~Clayton Jones



Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld



No pillow so soft as God's promise. ~Author Unknown



The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it soon cut off, and we fly away. ~Psalms 90:10