Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?

Charles Dickens

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Charles Dickens

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Charles Dickens

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Alan Watts

A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.

Alan Watts

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

Alan Jackson

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

Alan Jackson

I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.

Al Roker

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

Charlie Chaplin

Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody

Charlie Chaplin

Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Charles W. Pickering

In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.

Charles de Lint

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

Charles Caleb Colton

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

Charles Caleb Colton

If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Charles Dickens

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

Charles Dickens

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

Charles Caleb Colton

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Charles Dickens

When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.

Charles Dickens

Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.

Charles Dickens

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

Charles Stuart Calverley

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.