My favorite quotes

• As to me, I know of nothing else, but miracles. - Walt Whitman
• Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad. -Christina Georgiana Rossetti
• Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. -Robert Frost
• Sometimes we aren't even wishing for the thing we really need. -Sulamina Mum
• Nobody sees a flower- really it is so small- we haven't time- and to see takes time. Georgia O'keeffe
• Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. Christina Georgiana Rossetti
  And now for The Brilliant Dorothy Parker
• "That woman speaks eighteen languages, and she can’t say 'No' in any of them." 
  
  
  "By the time you swear you're his, 
  Shivering and sighing. 
  And he vows his passion is, 
  Infinite, undying. 
  Lady make note of this -- 
  One of you is lying." 
  
  
  "I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true." 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt." 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship." 
  
  
  "That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment." 
  
  
  "Razors pain you; 
  Rivers are damp; 
  Acids stain you; 
  And drugs cause cramp. 
  Guns aren’t lawful; 
  Nooses give; 
  Gas smells awful; 
  You might as well live." 
  
  
  "Don't look at me in that tone of voice." 
  
  
  "I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet 
  I'd be darling at it." 
  
  
  "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." 
  
  
  "Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone." 
  
  
  "The cure for boredom is curiosity. 
  There is no cure for curiosity." 
  
  
  "And if my heart be scarred and burned, 
  The safer, I, for all I learned." 
  
  
  "This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it." 
  
  
  "Drink and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die (but alas we never do)!" 
  
  
  "Four be the things I am wiser to know: 
  Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. 
  Four be the things I'd been better without: 
  Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. 
  Three be the things I shall never attain: 
  Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. 
  Three be the things I shall have till I die: 
  Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye." 
  
  
  "I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." 
  
  
  "I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money." 
  
  
  "Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away." 
  
  
  "Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants." 
  
  
  "Be you wise and never sad, 
  You will get your lovely lad. 
  Never serious be, nor true, 
  And your wish will come to you-- 
  And if that makes you happy, kid, 
  You'll be the first it ever did." 
  
  
  "Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain." 
  
  
  "When I was young and bold and strong, 
  The right was right, the wrong was wrong. 
  With plume on high and flag unfurled, 
  I rode away to right the world. 
  But now I’m old - and good and bad, 
  Are woven in a crazy plaid. 
  I sit and say the world is so, 
  And wise is she who lets it go." 
  
  
  "Women and elephants never forget." 
  
  
  "Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded 
  wheelchair." 
  
  
  "Men 
  They hail you as their morning star 
  Because you are the way you are. 
  If you return the sentiment, 
  They'll try to make you different; 
  And once they have you, safe and sound, 
  They want to change you all around. 
  Your moods and ways they put a curse on; 
  They'd make of you another person. 
  They cannot let you go your gait; 
  They influence and educate. 
  They'd alter all that they admired. 
  They make me sick, they make me tired." 
  
  
  "I shudder at the thought of men.... 
  I'm due to fall in love again" 
  
  
  "She can sit up and beg, and 
  she can give her paw — 
  I don't say she will, but she can." 
  
  
  "If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy." 
  
  
  "I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them." 
  
  
  "The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!"