milkandonuts’s most recent Quotables

A priest once said to a group of content school girls, “If you spend your life searching for the Perfect Man, you’re going to die an old maid. The trial is to find a Decent Man – and then fall in love with him.”

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Why is a birthday cake the only food that you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.

A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than a minute. But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute, it is longer than any hour. That's relativity.

If you don't ask, you don't get.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

How many times can a man turn his head,
and pretend that he just doesn't see?

The worst mistake anyone can make, is being too afraid to make one!

It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Hobbes: Do you think there is a God?
Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me.

Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.