43732 Quotes & Sayings

A certain participation in happiness can be had in this life, but perfect and true happiness cannot be had in this life. — Peter Kreeft

Lunacy, like the rain, falls upon the evil and the good, and although it must forever remain a fearful misfortune, yet there may be no more sin or shame in it than there is in an ague fit or a fever. — Inmate Of The Glasgow Royal Asylum

You see this face, these wrinkles? I earned every one of them — Mitch Albom

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. — John Stuart Mill

Making something out of nothing made me feel like I was important, like I had value. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

So what part did I play in all this? Well, none really. They completely ignored me for the whole twenty or thirty minutes. Which was perfectly fine, of course, I didn't mind. But it did puzzle me, because early every morning they would come yelping and scratching around the doors and windows of my house until I got up and took them for their walk. If anything disturbed the daily ritual, like I had to drive into town, or have a meeting, or fly to England or something, they would get thoroughly miserable and simply not know what to do. Despite the fact that they would always completely ignore me whenever we went on our walks together, they couldn't just go and have a walk without me. This revealed a profoundly philosophical bent in these dogs that were not mine, because they had worked out that I had to be there in order for them to be able to ignore me properly. You can't ignore someone who isn't there, because that's not what "ignore" means. — Douglas Adams