beautiful quotes for women

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958



Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~Henry David Thoreau



Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. ~Doug Larson



In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. ~Syrus



A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark



An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him - and we would have fewer mediocre concerts. ~Kit Coleman, Kit Coleman: Queen of Hearts



Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere! ~Author unknown, as seen on a shirt



Dancing is the poetry of the foot. ~John Dryden



The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. ~Leo Aikman



I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



America is the best half-educated country in the world. ~Nicholas Murray Butler



Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin



Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it. ~Alain, Histoire de mes pensees



I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Colonel Potter, "Identity Crisis," original airdate 2 November 1981, written by Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, directed by David Ogden Stiers



Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. ~E.P. Whipple



He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. ~Eddie Shaw, referring to Herol "Bomber" Graham



Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. ~H.L. Mencken



He is a true fugitive who flies from reason. ~Marcus Aurelius



We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. ~Jello Biafra, quoted in The Guardian, 3 November 2007