quotes on trust

The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. ~Joseph Collins



With just enough learning to misquote. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"



I'm like King Midas in reverse, here. Everything I touch turns to shit. ~Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, The Sopranos, "Isabella," original airdate 28 March 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano



Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. ~Bruce Catton, Prefaces to History



It's hard to be humble when you can jump, stunt, and tumble! ~Author Unknown It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own. ~Pam Brown



The Glaswegian definition of an atheist: a bloke who goes to a Rangers-Celtic match to watch the football. ~Sandy Strang



There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents. ~Leon R. Yankwich



The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of a whole number. ~Martin H. Fischer



Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. ~Proverbs 31:25-28



What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~Henry David Thoreau



If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership. ~Will Rogers



Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal. ~Voltaire



For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? ~Kahlil Gibran, from "The Prophet" (Thanks, Roxalanne)



God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. ~John Muir



They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. ~Ernest Hemingway



A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893



If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power



I say never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let's evolve. Let the chips fall where they may. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk



Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. ~Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927