quotes for picnik
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men - and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort - as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails. ~Robert Ingersoll, Crimes Against Criminals
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ~Thomas Hood
Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. ~Judith Olney
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ~Fran Lebowitz
Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire. ~Napolean Bonaparte, letter to wife Josephine, December 1795
Labor: One of the processes by which A acquires property of B. ~Ambrose Bierce
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. ~Jawaharlal Nehru
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. ~Anchee Min, Becoming Madame Mao
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ~Edvard Munch
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris, 1935
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre
In nature we see where God has been. In our fellow man, we see where He is still at work. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go. ~Anton Chekov
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
God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper, The Task
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. ~Seneca
