Laura Numeroff Quotes

#1. If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

Anthony Hopkins

#2. Never trust a woman's tears, Alexey Fyodorovitch.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. 'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#5. It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.

Will Oldham

#6. If you give a mouse a cookie, he is sure to want a glass of milk.

Laura Joffe Numeroff

#7. Song; an intangible medicine that heals both the body and the soul intangibly for a moment.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

Peter Greenaway

#9. Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City.

Brendan I. Koerner

#10. There are days when I wake/ and find my face is a hole/ and I have nowhere to hang my mask.

Carl Adamshick

#11. The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson