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Archives - February 2013

February 1, 2013

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

– Pam Brown

February 2, 2013

Alas! must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?

– Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton

February 3, 2013

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

– Don Herold

February 4, 2013

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

February 5, 2013

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

– David Brenner

February 6, 2013

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

– Jerry Seinfeld

February 7, 2013

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.

– Edith Wharton

February 8, 2013

Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day.

– Grey Livingston

February 9, 2013

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up.

– Pearl Buck

February 10, 2013

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

– Berthold Auerbach

February 11, 2013

After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

– W.C. Fields

February 12, 2013

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

– Abraham Lincoln

February 13, 2013

Popular, I know about popular
It's not about who you are or your fancy car
You're only ever who you were
Popular, I know about popular
And all that you have to do is be true to you
That's all you ever need to know

– Mika, "Popular Song"

February 14, 2013

We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness --- and call it love --- true love.

– Robert Fulghum, TRUE LOVE

February 15, 2013

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

February 16, 2013

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

– Bruce Crampton

February 17, 2013

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

– Charlie Chaplin

February 18, 2013

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

– Thomas Jefferson

February 19, 2013

You always pass failure on the way to success.

– Mickey Rooney

February 20, 2013

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

– Meg Cabot, THE BOY NEXT DOOR

February 21, 2013

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

– Mignon McLaughlin

February 22, 2013

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

– George Washington

February 23, 2013

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

– Rosa Parks

February 24, 2013

A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.

– Edgar A. Shoaff

February 25, 2013

Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

– Glen Beaman

February 26, 2013

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

– Shirley MacLaine

February 27, 2013

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

– Fanny Brice

February 28, 2013

Live truth instead of professing it.

– Elbert Hubbard