cute funny quotes about boys

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. ~Fustel de Coulange, La Cite antique, 1864



The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ~Bertrand Russell



Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. ~Phil Linz



I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. ~Oscar Wilde



When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. ~Gail Sheehy



It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat. ~Robert Fuoss



A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. ~Carl T. Rowan



The moon is like a mystery novel, the sun like a motivational self-help book, and the stars a coffee table book of photography. The sky is the whole library, and God the librarian. ~Terri Guillemets



Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer. ~Author Unknown



Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If men liked shopping, they'd call it research. ~Cynthia Nelms



I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes



History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. ~Voltaire



Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway



Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. ~Cullen Hightower



If you ride you know those moments when you have fed yourself into the traffic, felt the hashed-up asphalt rattle in the handlebars, held a lungful of air in a cloud of exhaust. Up ahead there are two parallel buses. With cat's whiskers, you measure the clearance down a doubtful alley. You swing wide, outflank that flower truck. The cross-street yellow light is turning red. You burst off the green like a surfer on a wave of metal. You have a hundred empty yards of Broadway to yourself. ~Chip Brown, "A Bike and a Prayer"



Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ~Bob Newhart



Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight-or-flight mode. ~Melanie Haiken, about yoga and anxiety, "Worry Thwarts," Yoga Journal, March 2006



Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing? ~Samuel Goldwyn



I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. ~Duane Michals, Real Dreams