March 2011
120 posts
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but a lighting of a fire.”
—William Butler Yeats
“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
—Dorothy Parker
“Quotation is a serviceable substitution for wit.”
—Oscar Wilde
February 2011
40 posts
“Date the man. Don’t date his potential.”
—Unknown (via jscasprs)
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
—H.G. Wells
“The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The modern woman…prides herself on thinking, taking action, working, creating, on the same terms as men; instead of seeking to disparage them, she declares herself their equal.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
—Hans Christian Andersen (via ish07)
“Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad.”
—P.D. East
“Life must be lived forwards, but it can only be understood backwards.”
—Kierkegaard
“You don’t need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.”
—Paulo Coelho (via princesstale)
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Darcy gave her the casual once-over. “OK, to your credit, you’re prettier up close. But at first glance it’s nothing but skinny jeans and university sweatshirts and the ponytail and do you ever let your hair down?”
“No, because keeping it tied back makes me more aerodynamic when I kick your ass.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Remember, to say, “I love you” to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.”
—Bob Moorehead
“Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them; Champagne makes you do them.”
—Unknown
“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
—Malachy McCourt
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
—Don Marquis (via bottlingsound)
“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.”
—Shakespeare
“A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it back to me when my memory fails.”
—Unknown
“When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football.”
—Unknown
“No one can make you feel bad about yourself without your permission.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
“When two great forces collide, the victory will go to the one who knows how to yield.”
—Ancient Taoist saying
“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.”
—Joe Ancis
“I become insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
—Edgar Allen Poe
“One man’s way may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own way best.”
—Jane Austen
“Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.”
—American proverb
“We are made strong by what we overcome.”
—John Burroughs
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
—Louis Hector Berlioz
“There is a luxury in being quiet in the heart of chaos.”
—Virginia Woolfe
“We do not describe the world we see, but see the world we describe.”
—Joseph Jaworski
“I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later.”
—Mitch Hedberg
“Friends are family you choose for yourself.”
—Anonymous
“Life is nothing without friendship.”
—Cicero
“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”
—Calvin (via calvinnhobbes)
“Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.”
—Elbert Hubbard
“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”
—Adlai E. Stevenson
