great depression quotes

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. ~Horace



Useful and ornamental needlework, knitting, and netting are capable of being made, not only sources of personal gratification, but of high moral benefit, and the means of developing in surpassing loveliness and grace, some of the highest and noblest feelings of the soul. ~Author unknown, from The Ladies' Work Table Book, 1845



I get sick of listening to straight people complain about, "Well, hey, we don't have a heterosexual-pride day, why do you need a gay-pride day?" I remember when I was a kid I'd always ask my mom: "Why don't we have a Kid's Day? We have a Mother's Day and a Father's Day, but why don't we have a Kid's Day?" My mom would always say, "Every day is Kid's Day." To all those heterosexuals that bitch about gay pride, I say the same thing: Every day is heterosexual-pride day! Can't you people enjoy your banquet and not piss on those of us enjoying our crumbs over here in the corner? ~Rob Nash



I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl



If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~James Michener



It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ~Marguerite de Valois



I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying. ~George Bird Evans, Troubles with Bird Dogs



I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts. ~Graham Kerr



Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all. ~Bob Lemon, 1977



If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people. ~Karel Capek



We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. ~Carl Sagan



We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ~John Lancaster Spalding



Procrastination is like masturbation. At first it feels good, but in the end you're only screwing yourself. ~Author unknown, possibly from Monty Python?



When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world. ~Author Unknown



I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. ~Marcus Porcius Cato



Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The public is hedged about by so many goddam bookkeepers that no time is left in which to produce. More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food. ~Martin H. Fischer



How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself! ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia



There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com