love and lost quotes

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. ~Horace


A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulpit


Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. ~Aldous Huxley


It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. ~Eric Hoffer


It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. ~A. Benson Cannon


There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves. ~Thomas Wolfe


Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ~Amy Lowell


The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone. ~Richard Jefferies, The Life of the Fields, 1908


I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. ~Madonna Ciccone


We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately. ~Benjamin Franklin


A boy who hears a lesson in history ended by the beauty of peace, and how Napoleon brought ruin upon the world and that he should be forever cursed, will not long have much confidence in his teacher. He wants to hear more about the fighting and less about the peace negotiations. ~William Lee Howard, Peace, Dolls and Pugnacity


An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~Mahatma Gandhi


If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ~John Louis von Neumann


Names are an important key to what a society values. Anthropologists recognize naming as 'one of the chief methods for imposing order on perception.' ~David S. Slawson


The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead


Vegetarians taste better. ~Author Unknown


The road to success is wherever people need another road. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ~Sister Mary Paul


I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. ~Henry James


Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. ~Peter Saint James