beautiful quotes on life with pictures

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~From a Washington Post word contest



I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ~Colette



Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. ~Martin H. Fischer



One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns, The Passing Show



Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854



Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal. ~Voltaire



All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds. ~George Bernard Shaw



A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~Oscar Wilde



No matter how much the neurotic accomplished yesterday - even if he finished - he must start anew today. ~Terri Guillemets



If you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons



While breastfeeding may not seem the right choice for every parent, it is the best choice for every baby. ~Amy Spangler



Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb



No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~Terry Pratchett



Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty. ~Alan Barth, The Loyalty of Free Man, 1951



Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered



Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren



A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ~Thomas Carlyle



Luck never made a man wise. ~Seneca, Letters to Lucilius



When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom