quotes for recycling

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. ~Frank Gillette Burgess



Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ~Carl Sandburg



I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. ~A Chieftan from Nigeria



No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices. ~Harry Bridges



In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban



I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. ~Abraham Lincoln



One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882



There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670



Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato? ~From the television show Boston Common



Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football. ~S.A. Sachs



The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. ~Arabian Proverb



Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. ~Aretaeus



To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. ~Chinese Saying



The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick



God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine. ~David Nicholas



Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. ~Marian Wright Edelman



A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi