quotes for nursery

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it. ~Carrie Latet



The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe. ~Vincent Starrett, Buried Caesars



I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. ~Henry David Thoreau



Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad. ~P.D. East



Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. ~Edward Dahlberg, The Sorrows of Priapus, 1957



The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change. ~Lowell



Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra



I'm in therapy and sewing is cheaper than a psychiatrist. ~Author Unknown



Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree. ~Michael Crichton, Timeline



No longer will I play the field. The field stinks, both economically and socially, and I'm giving it up. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. ~John Powell



Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be. ~Wayne Gretzky



I do like a little bit of butter to my bread. ~A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young



A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie



Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams



Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ~Confucius



Dogs eat. Cats dine. ~Ann Taylor



I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. ~M.M. Coady



Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ~Dennis Wholey



I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6