emo quotes and sayings about cutting

That word "lesbian" sounds like a disease. And straight men know because they're sure that they're the cure. ~Denise McCanles



Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." ~Clare Boothe Luce



The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~Muhammad Ali



I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. ~S.I. Hayakawa



The field of Western medicine has become literally nothing but medicine. Doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-serve pharmaceutical vending machines. ~Grey Livingston



On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park. ~Curtis McDougall



Working without safety is a dead-end job. ~Author Unknown



If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. ~Yiddish Proverb



Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859



One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ~George Herbert



No man expects a great deal from marriage. He is quite satisfied if his wife is a good cook, a good valet, an attentive audience, and a patient nurse. ~Author Unknown



A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth. ~George D. Prentice



Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. ~Laurence J. Peter



Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ~Samuel Johnson



Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. ~Edward O. Wilson