quotes for girls about life

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. ~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.



If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. ~Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir



The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~Louis D. Brandeis



For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. ~I Corinthians 13:9



If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. ~Phyllis Battelle



You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. ~Leo Durocher, in New York Times, 16 May 1965



Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? ~Horace



Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. ~P.J. O'Rourke



Her needlework both plain and ornamental was excellent, and she might have put a sewing machine to shame. ~James Edward Austen-Leigh, about Jane Austen



Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. ~Charles Caleb Colton



There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness. ~Carrie Latet



A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb



Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. ~Author Unknown



You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown



The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem



Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949



The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911



You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~Mark Twain



Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along. ~Hugh Allen