quotes about mean girls

A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. ~George Bernard Shaw



We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives. ~Lewis Thomas



A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them." ~Charles Edward Montague, Dramatic Values



What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed? ~Gerald Barzan



Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked." ~Molly Ivins



He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. ~Stephen Leacock



I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. ~Author Unknown



Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. ~Kurt Goldstein



Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers? ~Elayne Boosler



But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ~George Orwell



How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? ~Satchel Paige



Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ~Julius Charles Hare



Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~Confucius



Grandmother-grandchild relationships are simple. Grandmas are short on criticism and long on love. ~Author Unknown



Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius



Each patient ought to feel somewhat the better after the physician's visit, irrespective of the nature of the illness. ~Warfield Theobald Longcope



Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. ~Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. ~Peter Marshall



History balances the frustration of "how far we have to go" with the satisfaction of "how far we have come." It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time. ~Lewis F. Powell, Jr.



What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Watch a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off. ~Lucretius, On the Nature of Things