quotes about using people

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ~Oscar Wilde



Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710



I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. ~James Baldwin I imagine that yes is the only living thing. ~e.e. cummings



I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? ~Kahlil Gibran, from "The Prophet" (Thanks, Roxalanne)



A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. ~Tim Cahill



I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug ten people at a time. ~Drew Barrymore



Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! ~Albert Einstein



Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. ~Proverbs 17:28



Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution. "Topless Pizza Lunch." ~Alistair Cooke



I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be. ~Benny Hill



The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting. ~Michel de Montaigne



There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton



I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln



It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight. ~John Stevenson



Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! ~Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.



An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. ~Andy Warhol



A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb



The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care. ~William Alexander