Showing posts with label Pearl S. Buck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pearl S. Buck. Show all posts

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Quote (#552)

Practice random beauty and
senseless acts of love.
- Anonymous

"Setting a good example for children
takes all the fun out of middle age."
- William Feather

"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only
sane thing to do if you find yourself up there."
- Fred Allen

Short change your education now and you may
be short of change the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

"Love dies only when growth stops."
- Pearl S. Buck

"A good film is when the price of
the dinner, the theatre admission
and the babysitter were worth it."
- Alfred Hitchcock

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Quotaria

Patience with others is Love;
Patience with self is Hope;
Patience with God is Faith.
- Adel Bestavros

That you may retain your self-respect, it is
better to displease the people by doing what
you know is right, than to temporarily please
them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker


Count no day lost in which you waited
your turn, took only your share and
sought advantage over no one.
- Robert Brault

I am comforted by life's stability,
by earth's unchangeableness. What has
seemed new and frightening assumes its
place in the unfolding of knowledge.
- Pearl Buck

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and
therefore they attempt the impossible -- and
achieve it, generation after generation.
- Pearl S. Buck

"A computer once beat me at chess, but
it was no match for me at kick boxing."
- Emo Philips

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Quotes

I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

Christmas waves a magic wand over the world and
behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and
the only regret I have was that I didn't study
Latin harder in school so I could converse with
those people
- Dan Quayle

There are many ways of breaking
a heart. Stories were full of
hearts broken by love, but what
really broke a heart was taking
away its dream - whatever that
dream might be.
- Pearl S. Buck

'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked.
'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, gravely, 'and go on till you
come to the end: then stop.'
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Batman: What's yellow and writes?
Robin: A ballpoint banana.
Batman: Exactly!
- Batman(1966/I)