Great & Meaningful Quotes

[officerripley]

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

~~Mark Twain

 

[Paco Dennis]

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

Charles Darwin's "The Descent of Man"

 

[MACKTEXAS]

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.
Annette Bening

 

[MACKTEXAS]

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you will look back and realize they were the big things.
Kurt Vonnegut

 

[officerripley]

"Every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it still more inhospitable."

~~Etty Hillesum, Dutch Jewish diarist and author who perished in Auschwitz

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.--William Faulkner

 

[Paco Dennis]

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected." — William Plomer

 

[oscash]

"As a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices, take it or leave it". (Buddy Hackett)

A perfect parent is a person with excellent childrearing theories and no actual children.

 

[dusty]

"Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you to forget that you have been created for greater things.”
Mother Teresa

 

[officerripley]

"He who dies with the most toys is still dead.:"

~~Jane T. Godfrey

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” Mahatma Gandhi

 

[officerripley]

"If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking."

~~Andrea Junker (on bluesky.com)

 

[MACKTEXAS]

A happy life is not built up of tours abroad and pleasant holidays, but of little clumps of violets noticed by the roadside. ~ Edward Wilson

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

"How monotonous the sounds of the forest would be if music only came from the Top Ten birds."--Dan Bennett

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Don’t borrow tomorrows worries

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Stay grounded in gratitude

 

[MACKTEXAS]

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon

 

[Rakaia]

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon

If you want sympathy you'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphillis.
Anon

 

[squatting dog]

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[OregonGuy]

The quote "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" was coined by the poet Alexander Pope in his work "An Essay on Man"1. It reflects the belief that hope persists even in difficult circumstances, as humans contemplate possible future events2. The full quote is: “Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest

 

[OregonGuy]

Here are some quotes by Edgar Allan Poe12:

• "We loved with a love that was more than love."
• "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
• "Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
• "I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason."
• "Literature is the most noble of professions."
• "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[MACKTEXAS]