19 More Quotes

1.      You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. — Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

2.      You can never understand one language until you understand at least two. — Ronald Searle (1920- )

3.     You can only give what you have. If you don't love yourself, you can't love other people. — Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-2004)

4.      You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. — Rwandan Proverb

5.      You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. — Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)

6.      You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. — Anne Lamott (1954- )

7.      You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)

8.     You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

9.      You cannot lay bare your private soul and look at it... It is too disgusting. — Mark Twain (1835-1910)

10.  "I quite realized," said Columbus, / "That the earth was not a rhombus, / But I am a little annoyed / To find it an oblate spheroid." — E. Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956)

11.  "Susaddad!" exclaimed Ibsen, / "By dose is turdig cribson! / I'd better dot kiss you. / Atishoo! Atishoo!" — E. Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956)

12.  Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. — Hector D. Cantu (1961- ) and Carlos Castellanos in Baldo Cartoon Strip

13. Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. — Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

14. However richly inspired by love, marriage is a high-wire act that is usually attempted by two nervous wrecks who just go for it, reeling with bliss. The rest is work, faith and destiny which carries with it, as does everything from God, the possibility of plunging from great heights. — Richard Atcheson (1934-2006)

15. However subtly, if you pay for access to a book, it does affect the way you use that book. I suspect that this is nearly always true. I also suspect it is true of many library services besides the borrowing of books. — John Berry

16.  Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

17. Censorship has never been known to stop with one book or category of book. Once the backing down begins, censorship spreads like a brush fire. — from Tennessee Librarian, Volume 22, p. 58

18. Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. — Anatole France (1844-1924)

19. Chances are, if you and a rabbit want the same thing [from your garden], the rabbit will get it. — Hortense Miller (1908-2008)