Sanesssss Quotes & Sayings

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. — Goldwin Smith

don't walk away from someone you love. Ever. — Susan Fanetti

People are leaving the church and going back to God. — Lenny Bruce

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I like potatoes
and so do you — Myself

Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and it won't be pleasant ... We're still behaving in ways that have become disastrous ... I don't think this helps us to survive ... We're very species-centric ... and now exist at the expense of every other form of life on Earth. — W.S. Merwin

We all know the artfulness with which a dropped coin hides itself, and the job we have to find it again. There are thoughts which play the same trick on us, rolling into a buried corner of our minds; and there it is, they've gone forever, we can't put our finger on them. — Victor Hugo

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors? — Saint Basil

An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea. — Ameen Rihani

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit. — Criss Jami

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb. — Robert Baden-Powell

Vimes' glare ran from face to face, causing most of the squad to do an immediate impression of the Floorboard and Ceiling Inspectors Synchronised Observation Team. — Terry Pratchett

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. — Ambrose Bierce

When they reached the lobby and the doors opened I knew they were meant to be there, the four of them, alone. — Alice Sebold