quotes and love

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. ~George S. Patton



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



If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. ~Hermann Hesse



When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. ~Edward Abbey



Thomas Jefferson: "Yes, yes of course, we go to war and protest going to war at the same time...."



You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ~Charles Buxton



A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization. ~Author Unknown



A cigarette is a pipe with a fire at one end and a fool at the other. ~Author Unknown



Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ~Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961



Where thou art - that - is Home. ~Emily Dickinson



A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it. ~From Cool Runnings



Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. ~Osbert Sitwell



When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. ~Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion



Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ~Tony Benn



For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858



Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January. ~Jim Gaffigan



But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter