quotes about life and love and happiness

Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow. ~John Mariucci



The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of a borrowed thought. ~Albert Pinkham Ryder



Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911



What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo. ~Dave Barry



Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin



Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954



There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory (thanks Harold)



For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. ~Edwin Way Teale



A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~Charles Peguy



The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez



Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. ~Sri Aurobindo



The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ~Betty Friedan



It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859



Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. ~Sholem Asch



The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. ~Henry David Thoreau



Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. ~Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)



To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. ~Will Durant



It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. ~Henry David Thoreau



Instead of being born again, why not just grow up? ~Author Unknown



Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car. ~Author Unknown