Quotable Quotes

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:48 am

Two may talk together under the same roof for many
years, yet never really meet; and two others at
first speech are old friends.

Mary Catherwood

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:19 am

A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.

Maria Edgeworth-English novelist---1767-1849

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:57 am

If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you can't tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:24 pm

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer--into selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Viscountess Nancy Astor,American-born British politician--1879-1964

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:40 pm

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood-American social reformer--1830-1917

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:30 am

Heaven is beneath our feet as well as over our heads

Henry David Thoreau

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:39 am

many people hate any change that doesn't jingle in their pockets

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:04 pm

I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity

Robert G. Ingersoll,American lawyer,politician 1833-1899

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:31 am

When one door closes,another opens;but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:47 pm

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg--Polish-German revolutionary--1871-1919

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:32 pm

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity,and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory,when the defect is in their judgment;and others,by grasping at all,retain nothing.

Margret Fuler,American critic and social refomer---1810-1850

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:39 pm

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle
alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant
woman in the room is the one full of life and
experience.
- Sharon Stone

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:48 am

No matter what your lot in life,build something on it.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:46 pm

Macho does not prove mucho.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:31 am

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

irvin Cobb,American humorist------1876-1944

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:02 am

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
-- Frank Tyger

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:26 pm

Statesmen think they make history;but history makes itself and drags the statemen along.

Will Rogers,American Humorist--1879-1935

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:01 pm

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Robert Frost,American poet 1874-1963

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:58 am

Chemistry is a trade for people without enough
imagination to be physicists.

Arthur C. Clarke

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:40 pm

We think according to nature.We speak according to rules.We act according to custom.

Francis Bacon,English philosopher--1561-1626