Salves Quotes

#1. I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.

Rebecca Johns

#2. Your heart broke again and again, and you tried to fix the pieces with the salves of the world. But they can only dull the pain; they cannot heal. You have been chained. You've hidden your heart in the dark places. But I came to heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free.

James L. Rubart

#3. How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.

Hortense Calisher

#4. It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

Jane Jacobs

#5. Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.

Gabrielle Roth

#6. Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up
Wounds when the balsam could not, and without
The aid of salves:
to think hath been a cure.
For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force
Of mere imagination.

William Cartwright

#7. Not all honey - she had concluded - had a specific use beyond what all honey is good for, sweetness and salves. But this honey, it was somehow so strong that it must be for something, though she had still not learnt what it was. The best she had come to was that this honey was for joy ...

Robin McKinley

#8. If the deed's done right," he said, "there willna be any need for any creams or salves.

Tessa Dare

#9. We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving ...

P.D. James

#10. Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves,
There is a nobleness of mind that heals
Wounds beyond salves.

William Cartwright

#11. In this world, the only true joy comes from the gospel - the joy that radiates from the Atonement and from ordinances that transcend the veil, and from the Comforter that salves our souls.

Sheri L. Dew

#12. When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire

Stephen R. Donaldson

#13. My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.

Jason Aldean

#14. Its great thorns pierced the canvas, and its heavy fragrance rushed within, enveloping his sleep, becoming one with his breath, and penetrated the chambers of his exploding heart.

Patti Smith

#15. Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Lady Bird Johnson

#16. When God signs a check it never bounces.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Lest too light winning make the prize light.

William Shakespeare

#18. In marriage never withhold sex because for men sex is the biggest love expression that a woman can give in a committed relationship.

Linda Alfiori

#19. The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

Sylvia Plath

#20. Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

John Ortberg