quotes about boys and love

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce



Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. ~Author Unknown



How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things. ~Dorothy Parker



The last time I opened my chakra so I could feel my peace, I got thrown right out of the pub. ~Terri Guillemets



What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. ~Phyllis Diller



Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. ~Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy



It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they're out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle's simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep. ~Gurdon S. Leete



Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well. ~Art Rosenbaum



Art disturbs, science reassures. ~Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuit



After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw



Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. ~Laurence Sterne, 1760



Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. ~Martha Graham



There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ~G.K. Chesterton



Action is the antidote to despair. ~Joan Baez



Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ~Nancy Willard, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead



Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. ~Author Unknown



It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. ~Joan Baez



When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. ~Katharine Whitehorn, "Nought for Homework," Roundabout, 1962



Short A: Of course, that's what they're here for.



It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. ~Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930