quotes for rosa parks

Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. ~Sebastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes



There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. ~Jules Champfleury



Nutrimentum spiritus (food for the soul). ~Berlin Royal Library, inscription



Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. ~Alan Coren



In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. ~Frank McKinney Hubbard



In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. ~Terry Pratchett



Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ~Clint Eastwood



If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick's Day you get what you want very much but haven't wished for. ~Patricia Lynch



When I look at my hands and in my heart, I see stress as Lady Macbeth saw blood. ~Berri Clove



Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. ~William Congreve



The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk. ~Katherine Whitehorn



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



Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. ~Corrie ten Boom



Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat. ~Sydney J. Harris



The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out. ~Carly Fiorina



Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ~Al-Waleed bin Talal



A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it. ~Charles Baudelaire, "Advice to Young Writers," 1867



Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. ~John 7:24



I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there. ~Robert Altman



Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ~Samuel Johnson, "Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor," Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1791