Quote on sarcasm

Sarcasm is the second cousin of Anger.-Dr.Buddy Rydell

Quote on anger

If anger is fire,forgiveness is water.When fire gets out of control,use plenty of water.-Ronit Baras

Interesting quote from William Gaylin

Expressing anger is a form of public littering.-William Gaylin

Quote from Elliott Larson

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations.-Elliott Larson

Quote from Gloria Steinem

The truth will set you free,but first it will piss you off.-Gloria Steinem

Quote on books

Books are good enough in their ownway,but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.-Robert Louis Stevenson

Quote from Todd Gitlin

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.-Todd Gitlin

Insightful quote from Barbara Kingsolver

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance,they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.-Barbara Kingsolver

Interesting Margaret Atwood quote on Canada

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country.You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.-Margaret Atwood

Quote from Robert Louis Stevenson

In every part and corner of our life,to lose oneself is to be the gainer,to forget oneself is to be happy.-Robert Louis Stevenson

Quote from Amanda Mosher

Passion is a cobweb duster for the mind.-Amanda Mosher,BETTER TO BE ABLE TO LOVE THAN TO BE LOVEABLE.

Quote from Burt Rutan

Testing leads to failure,and failure leads to understanding.-Burt Rutan

Quote from Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is by nature self-evident.As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it,it shines clear.-Mahatma Gandhi

Quote from Robert Grudin

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.-Robert Grudin

Quote from Simone Weil

Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.-Simone Weil

Another quote from Roger Caras

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs,a happy tail,and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.-Roger Caras(1928-2001),Animal welfare advocate

Quote on cats

Cats don't like change without their consent.-Roger Caras

Quote from Alfred Adler

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression.It is possible to lie,and even to murder,with the truth.-Alfred Adler

Quote from Barbara Ehrenreich

There is the fear common to all English-only speakers,that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us.Otherwise,you know,why not just come out and say it?-Barbara Ehrenreich,THE WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES.

Quote from Alfred Adler

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced,the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.-Alfred Adler

Quote on television

Television is the literature of the illiterate,the culture of the low-brow,the wealth of the poor,the privilege of the underprivileged,the exclusive club of the excluded masses.-Lee Loevinger

Quote on the importance of libraries

To a historian libraries are food,shelter,and even muse.They are of two kinds:the library of published material,books,pamplets,periodicals,and the archive of unpublished papers and documentaries.-Barbara Tuchman,PRACTISING HISTORY.

Quote from Alfred Adler

Distorted history boasts of bellicse glory----and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.-Alfred Adler

Quote from Alfred Adler

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.-Alfred Adler

Quote from Lee Loevinger

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs,and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.Anyway,more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.-Lee Loevinger

Another quote on television

Television is a corporate vulgarity.-John Leonard

Quote from Noel Coward

Time has convinced me of one thing:Television is for appearing on-not for looking at.-Noel Coward

Quote on television

Television is  simply automated daydreaming.-Lee Loevinger

Another quote from Alfred Adler

There is no such thing as talent.There is pressure.-Alfred Adler

Quote on sensitivity

Exaggerated sensitivity is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.-Alfred Adler(1870-1937),Psychologist.

Quote from Alfred Adler

Man knows much more than he understands.-Alfred Adler(1870-1937)

Quote on neurotics

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.-Alfred Adler(1870-1937).

Quote from Thomas Pynchon

Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen,right,you can never have too much.-Thomas Pynchon,BLEEDING EDGE,2013.

Another quote from Alfred Adler

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.-Alfred Adler

Quote from Alfred Adler

Trust only movement.Life happens at the level of events,not of words.Trust movement.-Alfred Adler

Quote from Thomas Pynchon

It takes,unhappily,no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.-Thomas Pynchon

Quote from Eric Honeycutt

The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.-Eric Honeycutt

Quote from P.T.Barnum

If I shoot at the sun,I may hit a star.-P.T.Barnum

Interesting quote from V.S.Pritchett

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.-V.S.Pritchett(1900-1997)

Quote from Judith Rossner

I'd rather be seduced than comforted.-Judith Rossner

Quote from Luthando Daniels

Be the one that influences others by being true to yourself,set your own standards and never succumb to the standards of others.-Luthando Daniels

Quote from George Steiner

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.-George Steiner,AFTER BABEL.

Quote from Victor Sawdon Pritchett

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.-Victor Sawdon Pritchett(1900-1997),English writer.

Quote on writing

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.-V.S.Pritchett

Quote from Arnold Bennett

No mind,however loving,could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.-Arnold Bennett

Quote from Irving Howe

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.-Irving Howe(1920-1993),American historian and socialist

Quote from Sol Luckman

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else's version of it.-Sol Luckman,BEGINNER'S LUKE.

Quote from Shannon L.Alder

Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people-the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote from P.T.Barnum

Advertise your objective,don't keep it in the dark.-P.T.Barnum

Quote from Dennis Wolfberg

There's one advantage to being 102.There's no peer pressure.-Dennis Wolfberg

Quote from Will Rogers

Everything is changing.People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.-Will Rogers

Quote from Joseph Joubert

Words,like eyeglasses,blur everything that they do not make clear.-Joseph Joubert

Great quote on the rainbow

The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it,because the rainbow is now.And the pot never turns out to be quite what I expected.-Hugh Prather,NOTES TO MYSELF(1970)

Quote from Shannon L.Alder

Pressure has the power to create a diamond,but it has to be the ''right'' pressure.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote from Richard J.Foster

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.-Richard J.Foster,CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE.

Great quote on peer pressure

You would have no peer pressure if you cared less about the opinions of others.-Jeff Moore

Interesting quote from Hugh Prather

If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.-Hugh Prather,NOTES TO MYSELF(1970).

Quote from Jimmy Fallon

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.-Jimmy Fallon,Late-night talk show host.

Quote from B.C.Forbes

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous.So would life.-B.C.Forbes

Inspirational quote from Oprah Winfrey

Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.-Oprah Winfrey

Quote from P.T.Barnum

An ass for every seat.-P.T.Barnum

Quote from Jeffrey Eugenides

Once you've visited the underworld,you never forget the way back.-Jeffrey Eugenides,MIDDLESEX.

Another quote from P.T.Barnum

Every crowd has a silver lining.-P.T.Barnum

Quote from P.T.Barnum

The noblest art is that of making others happy.-P.T.Barnum

Quote on advertising

Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land,-it largely increases the product.-P.T.Barnum,HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD.

Another quote from Jeffrey Eugenides

It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.-Jeffrey Eugenides,THE MARRIAGE PLOT

Quote from Jeffrey Eugenides

There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich.-Jeffrey Eugenides,MIDDLESEX.

Quote from Charley Reese

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape,it would be the shape of a boomerang.-Charley Reese

Quote from Bob Dylan

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.-Bob Dylan

Quote from Lauryn Hill

Reality is easy.It's deception that's the hard work.-Lauryn Hill

Quote from Jeffrey Eugenides

Biology gives you a brain.Life turns it into a mind.-Jeffrey Eugenides,MIDDLESEX

Quote from Mark Twain

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.-Mark Twain(1835-1910)

Quote from Thomas Jefferson

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity.-Thomas Jefferson

Quote on memory

Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth,but deceives us both in our youth and our age.-Harley King

Quote from Stuart Wilde

It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want.It is best to avoid people and situations that you know drive you crazy.Remember to vote with your feet.If a situation is untenable or unchangeable,walk away.-Stuart Wilde

Quote from Harley King

We fear what we most desire.-Harley King,WHAT I WAS MEANT TO FORGET.

Inspiring quote from Harley King

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.-Harley King

Quote on hope

Hope is a rainbow of thought.-Harley King

Quote from Diane Ackerman

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it.I want to have lived the width of it as well.-Diane Ackerman

Another interesting quote on the rich

The rich get richer.Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest,but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.-Stuart Wilde

Quote on the rich

In bad times,the rich usually get richer.-Stuart Wilde

Quote from Stuart Wilde

I was working in the gaarden at a snail's pace,and the snail overtook me.-Stuart Wilde

Quote from Steve Brown

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.-Steve Brown

Quote on inflation

Inflation is as violent as a mugger,as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.-Ronald Reagan(1911-2004),American president.

Quote from Stuart Wilde

If you don't change,reality in the end forces that change upon you.-Stuart Wilde

Quote from Virginia Woolf

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out;and I thought how it is worse,perhaps to be locked in.-Virginia Woolf

Quote from Stuart Wilde

Humility is the best evidence of insanity.-Stuart Wilde

Interesting quote from Aimee Mullins

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.-Aimee Mullins

Quote from Stuart Wilde

Each moment of our life,we either invoke or destroy our dreams.-Stuart Wilde

Quote on advertising

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people,but that of boring them to death.-Leo Burnett

Interesting German proverb

It is difficult to scare people who think they will profit from dying.-German proverb

German proverb

The latecomer is ill-lodged.-German proverb

Quote from Thornton Wilder

Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while.There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.-Thornton Wilder,THE MATCHMAKER.

Quote from John Villere

Your bottom line starts with your front line.-John Villere

Quote from Thomas Sowell

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the Young.-Thomas Sowell

Quote from Herbert Spencer

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.-Herbert Spencer