quotes about regret

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. ~Earl Wilson



Historian: A broad-gauge gossip. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne



Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person involved? ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894



Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. ~Charles Kingsley Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau



If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi



Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't. ~Author Unknown



There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965



Bill Hemmer: "You said cancer changes your life, and oftentimes for the better."



No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~Norman Cousins



No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb



Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. ~Bette Davis, about Jayne Mansfield



Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. ~Eric Nicol



No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. ~James Allen



Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us. ~Christopher Andrea



There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. ~Vincent van Gogh



Breath is Spirit. The act of breathing is Living. ~Author Unknown



Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ~Soren Kierkegaard