quotes for new year

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. ~Susan Sontag


In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance," Essays, 1841


A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. ~Geoffrey Norman


All unimportant matters drop off you in ragdoll pose. Very few things are genuinely important. The Truth sways before you. ~Terri Guillemets


Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. ~Ogden Nash


The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ~Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur


A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. ~Cornelius Vanderbilt


The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. ~Emil Zatopek


It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. ~Edmund Burke


Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. ~Author Unknown


She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning


Man - a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ~Alexander Hamilton


In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter II "The Market-Place"


Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley


If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ~Elizabeth Bowen


I never pray to God to make a putt. I pray to God to help me react good if I miss a putt. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez


A hug is a handshake from the heart. ~Author Unknown