quotes about liars and love

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings. ~Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals, 1929



I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school. ~Author Unknown



The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary. ~Mary Kurtz



What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. ~Bertolt Brecht



One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~E.M. Forster



Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"



What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. ~Henry Fielding



The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~Jean Paul Richter



There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. ~Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt



Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. ~Margaret Atwood



You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut. ~Author Unknown



The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ~Arthur Rubenstein



In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ~Kathy Norris



Our roots say we're sisters, our hearts say we're friends. ~Author Unknown



We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky. Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds. Let it be remembered as a story that has happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called by many different names. Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood. ~New York Times, 25 December 1937, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938, published by The H.W. Wilson Company, New York



Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes. ~Connie Miller



When you possess light within, you see it externally. ~Anais Nin



There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ~Mark Twain



The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. ~Author Unknown



There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. ~Charles D. Gill