love quotes by marilyn monroe

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. ~Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943



Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade. ~Leo Buscaglia



Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own. ~Alistair Cooke



Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. ~J.K. Rowling



The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. ~Charles R. Brown



As the poet said, "only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. ~Woody Allen



She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 12



There must be more to life than having everything! ~Maurice Sendak



Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. ~Jean Baptiste Moliere, Tartuffe



The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys. ~Dave Beard



Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. ~Jens Jensen, Siftings, 1939



Puns are the gag hand buzzers of conversation. It hurts a bit but everyone gets a good laugh out of it. ~Grey Livingston



They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. ~Author Unknown



There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. ~Max Beerbohm, Mainly on the Air, 1946



Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. ~Marshall Lumsden



Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly



Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. ~Osbert Sitwell



I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.... At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Pensieve," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. ~Thomas Hardy