quotes about mean girls

RISING.SUN detected: (A)nother coffee, (C)old shower, (S)leep? ~Author Unknown



I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while. ~Max Eastman I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out. ~George Foster, 1978



I would prefer not to. ~Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"



A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance. ~Saul Bellow



Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. ~Edward Dahlberg, The Sorrows of Priapus, 1957



A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. ~Author Unknown



Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. ~Le Duc de Levis, Memoires



Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ~Max Eastman



Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. ~Robert G. Ingersoll



I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. ~e.e. cummings



God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted. ~Stephen Crotts



The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. ~John Wayne



If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies. ~Barbara Ehrenreich If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler



The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~Mark Twain



History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. ~Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors



Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear,



If you don't control your mind, someone else will. ~John Allston



We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. ~Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams



So what good are all these fruitless discussions; for in the eternal battle of the sexes, we are always conquered - and we can do nothing about it - and none of us as yet, be he misogynist or feminist, has found a more perfect instrument of pleasure, or any other means of reproduction, than woman. ~"The Manuscript"