quotes on life

You have to have the kind of body that doesn't need a girdle in order to get to pose in one. ~Carolyn Kenmore



Breast milk is better than any udder milk! ~Author Unknown



His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. ~Dorothy Parker



Antanaclasis: repeating a single word but with a different meaning each time. This is a common type of pun and is often found in slogans. Example: "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." ~Vince Lombardi



Quilters know all the angles. ~Author Unknown



The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws. The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists. ~Thomas Nolle



We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~Author Unknown



There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass. ~Dan Devine, former Notre Dame football coach



God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted. ~Stephen Crotts



If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. ~Aldous Huxley



I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~Stan Isaacs, "Diamond-Studded Memories," Newsday, 9 April 1990



Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ~H.L. Mencken



I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches. ~Adlai E. Stevenson



A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. ~H.L. Mencken



What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. ~Bertolt Brecht



Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled. ~Frederic Raphael



How can you explain that you need to know that the trees are still there, and the hills and the sky? Anyone knows they are. How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and the season instead of the hour and the minute? No, you cannot explain. So you walk. ~Author unknown, from New York Times editorial, "The Walk," 25 October 1967



All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. ~Chris Hart



The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~Judith Regan



The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers. ~Martin H. Fischer