break up quotes and sayings
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. ~Author Unknown
God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. ~Horace Mann, "Thoughts for a Young Man," 1859
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. ~George Meredith
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ~Mark Twain
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb. ~Benjamin Franklin
It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. ~T.S. Eliot, about radio
To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. ~Walter Scott
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one. ~Martin H. Fischer
You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! ~Andre Gide
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. ~William Dyer
No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one. ~Elbert Hubbard
You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life. ~Author Unknown
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~Lewis Mumford
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ~Lin Yutang
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Of course the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene ("'Yes, yes, YES!' moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture"). ~Dave Barry