B A Billingsly Famous Quotes
"A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that."
"My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are."
"Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up."
B A Billingsly Quotations
"As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."
Maya Angelou
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
Ayn Rand
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
William Shakespeare
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
Tom Lehrer
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."
John B Bogart
"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
Martina Horner
"The world is divided into people who do things, and people who get credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class, there is far less competition."
Dwight Morrow
"If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water."
Loren