life quotes and sayings with pictures

Growth is the only evidence of life. ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864



Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. ~Brendan Francis



Rebooting is a wonder drug - it fixes almost everything. ~Garrett Hazel, "Help Desk Blues," 2002



Coffee: The first peripheral! ~Author Unknown



Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. ~John Heywood, 1565



Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too. ~Lionel Kauffman



A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them. ~Frank A. Clark



If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ~Woodrow Wilson



Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality. ~Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, 1964



There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it. ~Irena Chalmers



Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel



Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life. ~Kathleen Norris



The worst thing about a bore is not that he won't stop talking, but that he won't let you stop listening. ~Author Unknown The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary. ~Elbert Hubbard



How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



More grievous than tears is the sight of them. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back. ~Hawkeye, M*A*S*H, "O.R."



The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. ~Charles Dickens



Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. ~From a Washington Post reader submission word contest



To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. ~Michael Servetus



Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. ~Christina Rossetti