Laurie E Colwin Famous Quotes
"That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional."
Laurie E Colwin Quotations
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Salvador Dali
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending that he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow
"A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."
Peter Cochrane
"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
Samuel Johnson
Time discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."
Francis Bacon