Quotes (#475)

I praise loudly;
I blame softly.
- Catherine II

What a day may bring,
a day may take away.
- Thomas Fuller

"A cynic is a man who,
when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin."
- H. L. Mencken

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Treat all disasters as if they
were trivialities but never treat
a triviality as if it were a disaster."
- Quentin Crisp

Little minds are tamed and
subdued by misfortune; but
great minds rise above them.
- Washington Irving