"Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Spring Quotes #Tree Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
“There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.”

Source : James Longstreet, Civil War Classics (2015). “From Manassas to Appomattox (Civil War Classics): Memoirs of the Civil War in America”, p.440, Diversion Books
“If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss. Love must be so deep that it takes its stand in Christ and so wide that it takes the whole lost world in. He must be active enough to save souls. He must be big enough to be gentle and great enough to be thoughtful. His arms must be strong enough to carry a little child.”
“Instinct told me it was dangerous. I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town.”
“Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.”
“How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.”
“Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.”
“Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion”

You may also like: