Cathy Guisewite Quotes

Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

Cathy Guisewite

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• I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Black
  • Challenge

• As a child of eight Mr. Trout had once kissed a girl of six under the mistletoe at a Christmas party, but there his sex life had come to abrupt halt.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Children
  • Girl

• Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Passion

• I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

  

  George Clooney
  • Deserve
  • Association
  • Rifles

• Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

  

  Euripides
  • Happy
  • Harmony
  • Secrets

• There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Fault
  • Indulgence
  • Malcontent

• Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • People
  • Men
  • Character

• We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Virtue
  • Fortune
  • Attribute

• During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Member
  • Epidemic
  • Health Committee of London Borough Council

• Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Software suppliers
  • Software packages

• An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

  

  Maria Callas
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Opera

• I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Dark
  • Blue

• Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Live
  • May

• Women, stop buying the lingerie. Stop buying it right now. Oh, it's a big rip off. Oh my god, $18 bucks for panties this big? Come on, one trip through the dryer, and it's a frilly bookmark.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • God
  • Women
  • Stop

• Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Soul
  • Looking
  • Nobody

• Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Buying
  • Spent
  • Throw Away