short love quotes him

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness



One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball. ~Don Carter



Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. ~George Orwell, Animal Farm



If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune. ~Griff Niblack



Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. ~Lord Northcliffe



Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. ~Author Unknown



There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20 There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. ~Louis Kronenberger



Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends. ~Margaret Thatcher



Codi: "Like a note you'd send somebody after you'd stayed in their house?"



Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy. ~John Northbrooke



The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I'm less interested in why we're here. I'm wholly devoted to while we're here. ~Erika Harris, lifeblazing.com



Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. ~Robert Fripp



Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ~Mrs. C.W. Earle, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, 1897 (Thanks, Jessica)



There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. ~Charles D. Gill



Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ~H.L. Mencken Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. ~Sydney J. Harris



For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. ~Washington Irving, History of New York



A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958



When I learned to sew, I forgot how to cook. ~Author Unknown



When darkness descends on summer nights, the air around campfires, lanterns and cottage windows becomes filled with swirling moths seemingly intent on self destruction. The suicide fliers are drawn to the flames and light because they normally navigate a straight course by keeping constant the angle of moonlight or sunbeams falling on their eyes. Night lights created by humans disorient moths, causing them to flutter round and round the source without being able to get their bearings. ~Doug Bennet and Tim Tiner, Up North