Peggy's favorite quotes

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: fact, ignorance, truth

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
— Carl Sandburg

tags: time

14 people liked it

"I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!"
— Alan Alda

tags: guns, hawkeye, mash, pierce, war

3 people liked it

"Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night."
— Irving Berlin

tags: gratitude, happiness, money, thanks

2 people liked it

"Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: librarians

56 people liked it

"There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it."
— Frank Zappa

tags: censorship, dirty-words

21 people liked it

"Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity."
— Erma Bombeck

tags: chores, housekeeping, humor

15 people liked it

"for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea"
— e.e. cummings

tags: poetry

12 people liked it

"A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!'
'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
— Stephen Crane

tags: cosmos, existence, obligation, purpose, universe

31 people liked it

"I can't complain,
But sometimes I still do."
— Joe Walsh

tags: life

5 people liked it

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

"
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

5 people liked it

"Life is a long lesson in humility."
— James M. Barrie

tags: humility, insightful, life

30 people liked it

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
— Willa Cather

47 people liked it

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles. "
— Willa Cather

tags: love

168 people liked it

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
— John Lubbock

4 people liked it

"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

85 people liked it

Peggy's quotes

tags from Peggy's quotes