quotes on time and love

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. ~Marya Mannes



They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. ~Dick Gregory



The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William A. Ward



Every crime is born of necessity. If you want less crime, you must change the conditions. Poverty makes crime. Want, rags, crusts, misfortune - all these awake the wild beast in man, and finally he takes, and takes contrary to law, and becomes a criminal. And what do you do with him? You punish him. Why not punish a man for having consumption? The time will come when you will see that that is just as logical. What do you do with the criminal? You send him to the penitentiary. Is he made better? Worse. The first thing you do is to try to trample out his manhood, by putting an indignity upon him. You mark him. You put him in stripes. At night you put him in darkness. His feeling for revenge grows. You make a wild beast of him, and he comes out of that place branded in body and soul, and then you won't let him reform if he wants to. ~Robert Ingersoll, A Lay Sermon Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. ~Robert Orben



Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. ~Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life, 1913



Our age will be known as the age of committees. ~Ernest Benn



Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long. ~Ogden Nash



Skipping is just a dancing walk, or if you prefer, a walking dance. ~Jessi Lane Adams



A woman is like a tea bag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is. ~Attributed to both Eleanor Roosevelt and Carl Sandburg



They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers. ~James G. Watt, quoted in Newsweek, 8 March 1982



Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around. ~Author Unknown



The things that are wrong with the country today are the sum total of all the things that are wrong with us as individuals. ~Charles W. Tobey



All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole France



Medicines heals doubts as well as diseases. ~Karl Marx



To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. ~William James



History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army. ~Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History



A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between countries, so the officials can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly. ~Lemony Snicket



Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. ~Edna Woolman Chase