quotes about snowflakes

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



You are the music while the music lasts. ~T.S. Eliot



There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. ~Mark Burnett



If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ~Colette



In youth we learn; in age we understand. ~Marie Ebner-Eschenbach



Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. ~John Wesley



There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket. ~Abe Lemons



The best things in life aren't things. ~Art Buchwald



The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ~Galileo



Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. ~Joan Baez, "Sexism Seen but not Heard," Los Angeles Times, 1974



No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one. ~George F. Nordenhold



If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. ~Frank A. Clark



We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa



It's like being hit up the arse by a rainbow. ~Rod Eddington, about being lucky



It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations. ~Henry Cabot Lodge



Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse. ~Golda Meir



The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow. ~Author Unknown



Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. ~Amiel, Journal, 1884



There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. ~Josh Billings