quotes to live by for women

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1945



Byword: a proverbial expression; proverb; often-used word or phrase.



Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln



In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. ~Thomas Szasz



If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. ~George Barzan



Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey



Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920



The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity. ~Carl Sagan



Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ~Herbert Hoover



Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb



Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. ~Author Unknown



The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back. ~Author Unknown



Half of my heart is deployed. ~Author Unknown



He guided the passions of others, because he was master of his own. ~Ebenezer Grant Marsh



As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades



You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. ~C.A.R. Hoare



To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~Barbara Bush



Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997



But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. ~Edward Young



Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ~George Will