Quotable Quotes

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:12 am

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Thomas Fuller, M. D.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:51 am

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

Margaret Bourke-White--American Photojournalist--1904-1971

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:01 pm

Flattery is like cologne - to be smelled, not swallowed.

John Billings

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:54 am

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."

Bill Cosby

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:25 am

People of means often act the meanest.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:57 pm

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race,creed,and color,we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

U.S.Sen. George Aiken-Vermont--1892-1984

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:29 am

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

William Ellery Channing

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:27 pm

The world is quite right.It does not have to be consistent.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman,American economist-feminist--1860-1935

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:58 am

"At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

Lyndon B. Johnson

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:40 pm

The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

Wendell L. Wilkie,American politician 1892-1944

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:15 am

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

Edward Hoagland

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:47 am

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

Fernand Braudel

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:34 am

The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it;if you can't ignore it,top it;if you can't top it,laugh at it;if you can't laugh at it it's probably deserved.

Russell Lynes,American author--1910-1991

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:22 pm

It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.

C.H. Spurgeon

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:48 pm

I think America is richer in intelligence than any other country in the world;and that its intelligence is more scattered than in any country of the world.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:07 am

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.

John Glenn

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:49 am

Things aren't what they used to be and probably never were.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:57 pm

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Sir Henry Taylor

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:21 am

We are only young once. That is all society can stand.

Bob Bowen

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:53 am

It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!

Douglas Jerold