love wallpapers with sad quotes

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. ~Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives



What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. ~Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary, 1975



Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ~John Lubbock



Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. ~Juvenal



It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey



In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ~Kathy Norris



The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work. ~Mikhail Khodorkovsky



Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. ~Agnes Repplier



Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer. ~Author Unknown



Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers? ~Elayne Boosler



We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn



If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it. ~Author Unknown



You're no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you're too good to be an assistant. ~Martin H. Fischer



I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105. ~Bob Hope



God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. ~Timaeus of Locris



The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923



My handicap? Woods and irons. ~Chris Codiroli



The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard. ~Ellen Glasgow



There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. ~Ezra Pound