quotes for facebook

The groves were God's first temples. ~William Cullen Bryant, "A Forest Hymn"


Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine. ~Pat Conroy


Food is an important part of a balanced diet. ~Fran Lebowitz


Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine. ~Pat Conroy


Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. ~Edward Abbey


If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. ~Elbert Hubbard


Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. ~Goethe


A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck. ~Author Unknown


Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. ~George Claude Lorimer


Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting. ~Dr. Seuss


As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass


I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere. ~Author Unknown


Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. ~Dutch Proverb


God gave us all a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time. ~Robin Williams


When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. ~Albert Einstein


The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert


I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ~Jorge Luis Borges


I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. ~James Agate


Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. ~George Bernard Shaw, 1931