quotes about life and pain

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ~Alexander Pope



Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights.... Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven. ~William T. Piper



If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched. ~Terri Guillemets



The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. ~Dorothy Dix



Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. ~Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship



America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ~Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891



I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. ~Malcolm Muggeridge



You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously. ~Louis J. Camuti



In today already walks tomorrow. ~Friedrich von Schiller



When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ~Hugo L. Black



A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ~Mitch Ratcliffe A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ~Mitch Ratcliffe



If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



After a night in fight club, everything in the real world gets the volume turned down. Nothing can piss you off. Your word is law, and if other people break that law or question you, even that doesn't piss you off. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. ~Samuel Butler



Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ~C.P. Snow



The best way to a fisherman's heart is through his fly. ~Author Unknown



In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~Jose Narosky



My theory is that men are no more liberated than women. ~Indira Gandhi



If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying