quotes for when your mad

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. ~Sidney Lumet



The trick is growing up without growing old. ~Casey Stengel



If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. ~Stephen Girard



There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. ~Charles Proteus Steinmetz



When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949



If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. ~Lindsey Nelson



Breadbaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. ~M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating



Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. ~Mary Pickford



Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ~Jean Rostand, Le Mariage, 1927



An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. ~Augustine Birrell



Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. ~Leon Blum



Christ does not give men light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness. ~Johnn Wesley



An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. ~Pam Brown



A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. ~August Bier



A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. ~Samuel Johnson



Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Night Flight, 1931, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert



Releasing the pressure, it's good for the teapot and the water. Try it sometime. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ~Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum



There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb