David Grayson Famous Quotes
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.
"I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day"
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.
Adventure is not outside a man it is within.
David Grayson Quotations
"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break."
Akhenaton
"Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.' Except just this once, of course. - from Steel Beach"
John Varley
"Talking perceptions, people. Do we really see each other for what we really are, or do we just see what we want to see, the image distorted by our own personal lenses I lost someone today and the funny thing is, I don't even know who she was."
Jeff Melvoin
"To me, there's no better symbol for the world than a grasshopper lying dead on a gravel road, and maybe there's a globe lying next to him."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Benjamin Franklin
"'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes."
Miguel de Cervantes
There is always someone worse off than yourself.
Aesop
"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control."
Allen Ginsberg