quotes on child abuse
A dog may be man's best friend, but the horse wrote history. ~Author Unknown
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked." ~Molly Ivins
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton
I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! ~Catharine M. Sedgwick
We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. ~George Wald, "The Origin of Optical Activity," Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1975
Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen
I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 23
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
She clawed her way into my heart and wouldn't let go. ~Missy Altijd
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Author Unknown
Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus. ~Martin H. Fischer
Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ~Elissa Melamed
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. ~Leo Tolstoy
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968 Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ~Ansel Adams
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ~Mary Worley Montagu
Axiom: a statement universally accepted as true; a maxim widely accepted on its intrinsic merit; an established rule or principle or a self-evident truth. Example: "Goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services."
