quotes about questions

A hug is a handshake from the heart. ~Author Unknown



The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition. ~Martin H. Fischer



If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise. ~Author Unknown



Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. ~William Morris



Rebooting is a wonder drug - it fixes almost everything. ~Garrett Hazel, "Help Desk Blues," 2002



Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. ~Author Unknown



The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is. ~Helen Rowland



A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Author Unknown



Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye



If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854



Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. ~E.M. Forster



Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day. ~Grey Livingston



No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ~John Stuard Mill



It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ~G.K. Chesterton It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment. ~Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning



What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 1



To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~Pearl S. Buck



Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein



Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. ~Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, 1897