Marshall Lee Best Quotes & Sayings

Suspicion is very often a useless pain. — Samuel Johnson

The world is hard because you may wake up today but not tomorrow. And yet no one will accept "fear of death and a futile existence" as a reasonable excuse to miss work.
The world is hard because you will have to fight for the things you love or worse, fight the things you love. — Iain Thomas

Fat gives things flavor. — Julia Child

This is not a tragedy. I am used up. — Richard A. Hawley

Nature, so far as in her lies, imitates God. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests. — Bud Grant

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days — Plutarch

He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up. — Patricia Briggs

Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia, from her home on the Eastern Shore to our little Appalachian coal town to marry my daddy, Ernest Smith, whose family had lived in these mountains for generations. — Lee Smith

Treasures in heaven are more permanent. They are more satisfying. There are only two reasons why we are not as successful as we would like to be in laying up earthly treasures. One is that we sometimes get into the wrong business; and the second reason is that even though we may be in the right business, we do not always work at it effectively. Interestingly enough, these are the same reasons why we fail in laying up treasures in heaven. — Sterling W. Sill

To matter ... Is there any human will deeper than that? ... We don't want to live when we become convinced that we don't, can't, will never matter ... We no sooner discover that we are than we desperately want that which we are to matter. — Rebecca Goldstein

God does arithmetic. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

When we get angry, we suffer. If you really understand that, you also will be able to understand that when the other person is angry, it means that she is suffering. When someone insults you or behaves violently towards you, you have to be intelligent enough to see that the person suffers from his own violence and anger. But we tend to forget. We think that we are the only one that suffers, and the other person is our oppressor. This is enough to make anger arise, and to strengthen our desire to punish. We want to punish the other person because we suffer. Then, we have anger in us; we have violence in us, just as they do. When we see that our suffering and anger are no different from their suffering and anger, we will behave more compassionately. So understanding the other is understanding yourself, and understanding yourself is understanding the other person. Everything must begin with you. — Thich Nhat Hanh