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"We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to." »Hazrat Inayat Khan
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"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." »Dave Barry
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"Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." »Francis Bacon
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"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other." »Francis Bacon
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"Original Poems for infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother." »Anonymous
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"To Tennessee Williams, children were 'no-neck monsters,' while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant as a 'Mighty Prophet Seer Blest' Most adults know the truth is somewhere in between." »Eloise Salholz
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"Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me." »Epictetus
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"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity." »Edwin H. Land
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"It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end." »Douglas Adams
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"If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself." »H. L. Mencken
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"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along." »Madeleine L'Engle
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"It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run." »Mark Twain
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"In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should automatically disqualify you." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The US government alone cannot get its economy out of the crisis. It appears to me that the current policy makers are suffering from the gambler's syndrome. They keep spending more money hoping that they will eventually win. More debt spending is a receipt for bankruptcy. Real economic growth comes from government and private sector investments, not from massive debt spending followed by tax increases or currency devaluation." »Med Jones
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"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic." »Winston Churchill
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"Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete." »Maggie Roche
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"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses." »Robert Burton
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"sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count." »Neil Simon
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender." »J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
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"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree." »Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." »James Madison
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"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." »Winston Churchill
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"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move." »David Letterman
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"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always." »Katherine Anne Porter
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"The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." »Clive Staples Lewis
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