quotes for january

Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it's easy to forget they're not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don't say anything back. ~Stephenie Geist



I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up! ~E.B. White



It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for. ~Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much



The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. ~Peggy Ryan



Historian: A broad-gauge gossip. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



People never notice anything. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 2



Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage." ~Herbert Spencer



Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. ~William Ewart Gladstone



The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. ~Jim Bishop



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



We live and die; Christ died and lived! ~John Stott



Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines. ~Attributed to both Jason Hutchison and John Benfield



The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer. ~Author Unknown



All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran



Ultimately, aren't we all just talking monkeys with an attitude problem? ~"Uncle" Ben, as seen on quotes?r?us.org



I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus