quotes on earth

Some people are so sensitive they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them. ~Frank Hubbard



Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ~Francis Bacon



Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table



Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997



Envy slays itself by its own arrows. ~Author Unknown



Your cat may never have to hunt farther than the kitchen counter for its supper nor face a predator more fierce than the vacuum cleaner. ~Barbara L. Diamond



They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing. ~Richard Yates



Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland



What goes around comes around, just like a flip turn. ~Author Unknown



Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ~Ovid, Tristia



Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round. ~Jessica Archmint



It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. ~Carl T. Rowan



Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquinas



I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. ~Morgan Freeman



Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth



Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb



My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop. ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart



Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. ~W.C. Fields



Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. ~Herodotus, The History of Herodotus