Leafy QuotesRecently added
The newest book quotes in the Leafy Quotes collection — passages readers have just added, each with its author, book and the page it came from.
“Keep the other person’s well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.”
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.
"Butterflies are like woman – we may look pretty and delicate, but baby, we can fly through a hurricane."
“If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.”
“Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that — it's got to be funny.”
You don’t just luck into integrity. You work at it.
“If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn’t have a lot of the animal problems that we do.
He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed, and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolors of death.
“I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet.”
Never give up if your heart and your head tell you are right. People can disappoint you, but your heart and your head will never. Make them your best friends.
Life is like a set of false teeth. The world sees what you show it: Clean teeth wey white like Colgate. But you know for inside dat your real teet' don rot finish!





