short life quotes to live by

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more. ~Arthur Daley



Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters. ~Ik Marvel Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverb



Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl. ~Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much



If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got. ~Author Unknown



Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk



It's not women's fault that diets don't work. It's not perversity of lack of willpower. God did this - in Her great wisdom. ~Dr. Wayne Callaway



Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it. ~Pablo Casals



I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer. ~Kehlog Albran



In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ~Edward Hoagland



If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. ~Charles de Gaulle



When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally



The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew Proverb



The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. ~Attributed to George Carlin



Drunkenness is temporary suicide. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness



The departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow. ~Alexander Ivanovich Herzen, Other Shore



Never miss a good chance to shut up. ~Will Rogers (verification of author per The Estate of Will Rogers, CMG Worldwide)



I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind. ~Andrew Dickson White



It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. ~H.W. Shaw