love and peace quotes

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. ~John Lancaster Spalding



We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. ~John Newton



Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. ~Author Unknown



The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, "I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional?" or "Was this creature blinded in a fight?" They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid. ~Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus



One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb



The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. ~Benjamin Disraeli



There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character. ~Frederick W. Faber



Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving. ~Author Unknown



The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen. ~John Redman Coxe, 1800



In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever. ~Walt Whitman



The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. ~Erma Bombeck



Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. ~From the movie An Affair to Remember



Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. ~Aldous Huxley



A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head. ~Ethel Wilson



Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ~Ambrose Bierce



Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. ~B.F.Skinner



The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William Wordsworth



To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books



Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game. Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper. ~The X-Files