quotes about a guy you like

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. ~Stephan Girard



We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac



The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb



To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. ~Praxedis Guerrero, RegeneraciOn, 18 February 1911



One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. ~Edward C. Steadman



O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair. ~William Congreve, The Way of the World, spoken by the character Mrs Millamant



About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. ~Gloria Pitzer



Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. ~Author Unknown



Most women are one man away from welfare. ~Gloria Steinem



A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx



There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. ~Henri Amiel



Fire takes no holiday. ~Author Unknown



When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ~George Bernard Shaw



Availability is better than ability for God. ~Author Unknown



Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. ~Ogden Nash



Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone. ~Jan King



Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table



The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827