quotes on abuse
Smile, breathe and go slowly. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
American women are fools because they try to be everything to everybody. ~Viva
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? ~Author Unknown
I hate women because they always know where things are. ~Voltaire
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke
To me, horses and freedom are synonymous. ~Veryl Goodnight
Envy is a waste of time. ~Author Unknown
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~Louis Brandeis
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. ~Abigail Van Buren
He fed his spirit with the bread of books. ~Edwin Markham
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? ~Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. ~Richard Bach Evolution: that last step was a doozy! ~Astrid Alauda
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. ~Author Unknown
If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains. ~Swimming with Sharks, 1994, written & directed by George Huang, spoken by the character Buddy Ackerman played by Kevin Spacey
How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on. ~Zall's Second Law
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. ~Edward Gibbon
Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 20