quotes for children

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. ~Loudon Wainwright



The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate. ~Prince de Ligne



Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. ~Lucinda Franks



It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. ~Helen Keller



If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. ~Dean Smith



Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky



Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. ~William Ralph Inge



Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~Carol Bishop Hipps



Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. ~Hendrik Willem van Loon



Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith



They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ~Wilt Chamberlain



God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ~John Muir



There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. ~G.K. Chesterton



Jealousy... is a mental cancer. ~B.C. Forbes



Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. ~Benjamin Franklin



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



Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt



The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. ~Ross MacDonald



Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment. ~Ramana Maharshi, attributed