party time quotes

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954



A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. ~W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938



There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma and free will. ~Kuan Yin



Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, 1872



Few great men could pass personnel. ~Paul Goodman



If there is a God, he's a great mathematician. ~Paul Dirac



And life and love and peace are all new born. ~Alice Freeman Palmer



All art requires courage. ~Anne Tucker



Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere



Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ~Proverbs 20:1



Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties. ~Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862



It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. ~Agnes Repplier



For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! ~Edward Abbey



For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked. ~Bill Cosby, Love and Marriage



I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why, this is Christmas Day!" ~David Grayson



The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother. ~Author Unknown



Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ~Oscar Wilde



True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn



I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose. ~Mary Todd Lincoln