Arnold Schwartz Quotes & Sayings

Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff. — Malcolm D. Lee

She had a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. — P.G. Wodehouse

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying? — Katherine Boo

Don't forget to cherish all the things you love. — Anonymous

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort. — John Hurt

What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine? — Cyril Connolly

Butter my biscuits, now that's a woman." I — Penny Reid

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm. — Elizabeth Gaskell

He who matures early lives in anticipation. — Theodor Adorno

Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in one's neighbor, in the existence of one's neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves. — Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust. — Rose George

She asked me to call her bitch downstairs when we were doing shots at the bar. Said it turned her on. Later, with a laugh, she switched it to princess. Now she wants mistress. High maintenance. Some women are worth it. — Karen Marie Moning

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public. — Ron Fournier

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped. — Laozi

Wise it is to comprehend the whole. — Edward Young