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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: We tend not...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: We tend not...

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope...

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Carrie Fisher: You can't find...

Carrie Fisher: You can't find...

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so...

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Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...

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Emily Dickinson: If I shouldn't...

Emily Dickinson: If I shouldn't...

If I shouldn't be alive
When the robins come,
Give the one in red cravat
A memorial...

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Fran Lebowitz: Polite conversation is...

Fran Lebowitz: Polite conversation is...

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Source: Social Studies, 1977
-- Fran...

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Emily Dickinson: Luck is not...

Emily Dickinson: Luck is not...

Luck is not chance --
It's toil --
Fortune's expensive smile Is earned.


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Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

You ought certainly to forgive them, as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be...

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Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

Source: Letter, 1879; in Letters...

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Helen Rowland: When two people...

Helen Rowland: When two people...

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but a sign that they...

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Mary McCarthy: If someone tells...

Mary McCarthy: If someone tells...

If someone tells you he is going to make a realistic decision, you immediately understand that he has resolved to do...

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Roseanne Barr: Excuse the mess...

Roseanne Barr: Excuse the mess...

Excuse the mess but we live here.

Source: In The Almanac of Quotable Quotes from...

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Helen Rowland: When you see...

Helen Rowland: When you see...

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Source:...

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Christina Baldwin: Forgiveness is the...

Christina Baldwin: Forgiveness is the...

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

Source: Life's...

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Judith Guest: Geez, if I...

Judith Guest: Geez, if I...

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and...

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Judith Guest: To have a...

Judith Guest: To have a...

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A...

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George Eliot: Prophecy is the...

George Eliot: Prophecy is the...

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

Source: Middlemarch, bk. 1, ch. 10,...

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Rita Mae Brown: Education is a...

Rita Mae Brown: Education is a...

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

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Rita Mae Brown: I believe in...

Rita Mae Brown: I believe in...

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Source: Starting from...

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Rita Mae Brown: Good judgment comes...

Rita Mae Brown: Good judgment comes...

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

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