Funny Acronyms Quotes & Sayings

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences ... not the satellites of men. — Howard Zinn

Not sure I get why this shit's a secret but you two bein' just a hookup is not where that's at. Unless you're going'for the all-time record of longest hookup, and, just a head's up, brother, there's another way people refer to that shit and it's called a relationship. — Kristen Ashley

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. — Alice Munro

Okay, you won our shitty little argument. Pass the world. — Brian Spellman

Keep your small shy away from the dent you make. — Farrah Field

I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing else to do; indeed, it is a welcome distraction from eternity. But the book is tedious, it smells of the tomb, it has a rigor mortis about it; a serious fault, and yet a relatively small one, for the great defect of this book is you, reader. You want to live fast, to get to the end, and the book ambles along slowly; you like straight, solid narrative and a smooth style, but this book and my style are like a pair of drunks; they stagger to the right and to the left, they start and they stop, they mutter, they roar, they guffaw, they threaten the sky, they slip and fall ...
And fall! Unhappy leaves of my cypress tree, you had to fall, like everything else that is lovely and beautiful; if I had eyes, I would shed a tear of remembrance for you. And this is the great advantage in being dead, that if you have no mouth with which to laugh, neither have you eyes with which to cry. — Machado De Assis

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing. — Chris Benz

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask. — Helen Hunt Jackson

As a kid, all I thought about was death. — Maurice Sendak

success is an enemy to the losers of the day — Phil Ochs