quotes to live by for women
Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur. ~Carrie Latet
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. ~Garth Henrichs
How did I know that someday - at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere - the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ~Latin Proverb
Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire: Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. ~Psalms 104:2-5
There are three religious truths: 1) Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2) Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. 3) Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters. ~Author Unknown
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. ~Ray Bradbury living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. ~Rose Macaulay
Grief is itself a medicine. ~William Cowper, Charity
What is a home without children? Quiet. ~Henny Youngman
You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting. ~Rose Maccaulay
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper
If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~Ann Landers
The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy. ~Ellery Queen
Hamlet: As woman's love.
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. ~Elbert Hubbard
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. ~Robert Frost, 1935
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. ~H.L. Mencken
