Alice James Famous Quotes
"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James Quotations
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
No one ever excused his way to success.
Dave Del Dotto
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H L Mencken
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
Ambrose Bierce
Life is like a bicycle you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
Claude Pepper
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis Bacon
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
Robert Henri
"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."
Quentin Crisp
Good food ends with good talk.
Geoffrey Neighor