Mary Catherine Bateson Famous Quotes
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."
"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."
"The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."
Mary Catherine Bateson Quotations
Rumor is not always wrong. - from Life of Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Tobias Wolff
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul.
Eric Pio
"There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone."
Robert Elwood Bly
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
Sir Winston Churchill
"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all."
William Goldman
"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another"
Theodore Hesburgh
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased."
Alexander Hamilton
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Tennessee Williams
"The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically."
Barbra Streisand