quotes about cousins

Clearly, God is a Democrat. ~Patrick Caddell



It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ~Charles Baudelaire



I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. ~Katherine Anne Porter



Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ~Mason Cooley



Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665



Pure mathematics is the world's best game. It is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub. ~Richard J. Trudeau, Dots and Lines



For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference. ~Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community, 2000



We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ~Jean de La Bruyere



When everything is finished, the mornings are sad. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. ~Jules Verne



I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. ~Abd-El-Raham



A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb



I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. ~Jules Renard



Treat the patient, not the Xray. ~James M. Hunter



Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true. ~Star Trek, Mr. Spock



It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary



Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. ~Charlotte Whitton



The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. ~Leo Aikman



No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. ~Samuel Johnson



"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive. ~Gene Perret