Quotable Quotes

[dcowboy09]

The effectiveness of the spoken word hinges not so much on how people talk but mostly on how they listen.

[spare_change]

[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, - who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.

-- George Mason (speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 14 June 1778)

[MCat]

"It's not what you do once in a while,
it's what you do day in and day
out that makes a difference."

~Jenny Craig

[Sneaky]

"Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up."
~Susan Brownmiller, fiminist, journalist, & activist

[Sneaky]

"When I was twenty-seven, I felt like a pebble on the beach. Now I feel like the whole beach".
Shirley MacLaine

[aniceboomer]

I feel like a fish watching another fish being eaten by a shark.
Rifle 3-6

[Tiglet]

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - FDR

[Tiglet]

"Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech."
-George Bush, 04-15-2008

UNBELIEVABLE.

[Sneaky]

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."
Diane Arbus, Photographer

[Sneaky]

"There is usually one small step we can take in the direction of a dream. When we do, the universe often takes several more."
~Julia Cameron, author & artist

[Sneaky]

"Some of us have great runways already built for us, so if you have one, take off. If you don't, grave a shovel & build one."
~Amelia Earhart

[Sneaky]

"I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self. I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happend to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity, and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time."
~Katie Couric

[Sneaky]

"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone."
~Gertrude Stein

[Sneaky]

"Love is an action, never simply a feeling."
~bell hooks

[Sneaky]

"There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest".
~Margaret Mead

[Tiglet]

You keep thinking Butch, that's what you're good at.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

[aniceboomer]

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Ben Franklin

[househub]

'"every habit you have is either a blessing or a curse, and it's very important to take as much time as necessary to figure out which it is."
-from the book NEVER ASK A MAN THE SIZE OF HIS SPREAD

[Sneaky]

"Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him....I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel was never opened; There is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[MCat]

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down."


~Oprah Winfrey

[MCat]

"Dreams come a size too big so
that we may grow into them."


~Josie Bisset

[Sneaky]

"To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly".
-Colette

[Sneaky]

"I have never read any theologian who claims God is particularly interested in religion anyway."
-Annie Dillard

[Sneaky]

"Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and deed to understand and forgive in any family."
-May Sarton

[Sneaky]

"There is no sinner like a young saint".
Aphra Behn, dramatist, one of the first professional female writers in English literature

[MCat]

"Grace isn't a little prayer you chant
before receiving a meal. It's a way to live."

~Jackie Windspear

[Sneaky]

"A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person."
-Barbra Ehrenreich

[Seraphtermath]

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

[vixsin]

I'm not sure if it's been said cos I didn't read back through all the pages, but one of my favorite quotes has always been -

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”


George Bernard Shaw

[MCat]

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique;
they are great because of their passion."


~Martha Graham

[yaser]

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
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Mark Twain

[Seraphtermath]

You know you are in love
when you see the world in her eyes,
and her eyes everywhere in the world.

- David Levesque -

[MB54]

Sometimes we seem the at our smartest when we say nothing.

[MCat]

"For happiness one needs security,
but joy can spring like a flower even from
the cliffs of despair."


~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

[fly]

“Hell is the suffering of being unable to love”.
- Dostoyevsky

[fly]

“It is better to break one’s heart than to do nothing with it.”
- Margaret Kennedy

[fly]

“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”
Swedish proverb

[Sneaky]

"Manners are a senstive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."
~Emily Post

[Jules1]

"The better part of one's life consists of friendships" - Abraham Lincoln

[bryan3636]

"All you need is love...but a little chocolate every now and then doesn't hurt." - Charles Schulz

[myfishguy]

I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here. George W Bush

[MCat]

It´s nice to be important.
But it´s more important to be nice.

[tigger1954]

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." as Salvor Hardin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvor_Hardin).
Foundation written by Isaac Asimov

[Jules1]

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. - Abraham Lincoln

(Found this one and immediately thought of George Bush...he could have learned a thing or two from Lincoln...hehe....okay okay...so I'm a tree hugging liberal)

[MB54]

Sometimes we move forward by standing still.

[Jules1]

It´s nice to be important.

But it´s more important to be nice.





I think I'm gonna use this one on my kids!

[MB54]

When in doubt, punt!

[MCat]

"I've learned that people will
forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how
you made them feel."


~Maya Angelou

[spare_change]

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

-- Erich Segal

[Marathon45]

Life is short, go to Vegas baby

[MCat]

"You find yourself refreshed in the
presence of cheerful people. Why not make
an honest effort to confer that pleasure
on others? Half the batter is gained if you
never allow yourself to say anything gloomy."


~Lydia M Child

[Sneaky]

"It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes the dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now."
~Ann Quindlen

[Domus]

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

[Marathon45]

Life is short, lick more chocolate off your partner....

[Tiglet]

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire

[Domus]

Sex is like a bridge game; if you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.

[Sneaky]

"Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist."
~Paula Guinn Allen, poet, critic, activist, and novelist

[Sneaky]

"I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us."
~Lousa May Alcott

[Thumpintwin]

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

[MCat]

"Far away there in the sunshine are
my highest aspirations. I may not reach them,
but I can look up and see their beauty, believe
in them, and try to follow where they lead."


~Louisa May Alcott

[Alfa]

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." Dorothy Parker

[MCat]

"Oh, I love hugging.
I wish I was an octopus,
so I could hug 10 people at a time!"

~Drew Barrymore

[Sneaky]

"World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it."
-Peace Pilgrim, activist

[Sneaky]

"We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather."
-Barbara Ehrenreich

[MCat]

Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.


~Dr. Seuss

[Fwd40s]

Be who you are and say what you feel,

because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.


~Dr. Seuss



Sounds like Dr Seuss had the mind over matter thing down good.

[AL(m)]

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Dandemis

[AL(m)]

On the whole human beings want to be
good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

[Alfa]

On the whole human beings want to be
good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

George Orwell (1903 - 1950)


LOL, love it!

[Tiglet]

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman

[AL(m)]

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963),

[Tiglet]

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

Walt Whitman

[Alfa]

"I don't pay them for sex. I pay them to leave."
Charlie Sheen
(When asked why he pays prostitutes for sex when there are so many women who would sleep with him for "free")

[Krystal]

"I don't pay them for sex. I pay them to leave."
Charlie Sheen
(When asked why he pays prostitutes for sex when there are so many women who would sleep with him for "free")

lol, you found it.....funny stuff!

[fly]

A woman in love can't be reasonable -- or she probably wouldn't be in love.
--Mae West (http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559096/Mae_West.html#461523528)

[newhere]

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back .


Arthur Rubinstein -

[MCat]

"The key to change...is to let go of fear."


~Rosanne Cash

[fly]

The saddest love is to love someone,
to know that they still want you,
but the circumstances don't let you have them.

[OntheDownLow]

I'll put my tongue on your clitoris and start speaking gibberish - Apathy, AOTP

[Sneaky]

"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."
-Nadia Boulanger

[Sneaky]

"Some people go to preiests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
-Virginia Woolf

[cyclops]

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

[Domus]

Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.

[Trayclee]

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn't
Erica Jong

[Tiglet]

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'

Lewis Carroll

[tigger1954]

violence is the last recourse of the incompetent

[Sneaky]

"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."
-Agnes Repplier

[Tiglet]

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

-Albert Einstein

[Domus]

Don’t be afraid of the space between your
dreams and reality. If you can dream it,
you can make it so.

Belva Davis

[StayAtHomeDad]

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequilla.

[Thumpintwin]

It was too much tequila or not quite enough-----Jimmy Buffett

[Sneaky]

"Moderation is acolorless, insipid thing to counsel. To live less would not be living."
~Sister Madeleva, poet, scholar & educator

[Sneaky]

"The next greatest pleasure to love is to talk of love."
~Louise Labe', poet

[Sneaky]

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
~Coco Channel

[Sneaky]

"Reading is a disount ticket to everywhere"
~Mary Schmich, columnist & author

[Thumpintwin]

"Moderation is acolorless, insipid thing to counsel. To live less would not be living."
~Sister Madeleva, poet, scholar & educator

"Everything in moderation......Especially moderation!"----Mark Twain

[COWGIRL_LEO7]

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.


I like this one!!!

[COWGIRL_LEO7]

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.
But without it we go nowhere.

[hank69]

"I need to tell you everyday how I feel about you because one day I might not be able to."

[COWGIRL_LEO7]

The saddest love is to love someone,

to know that they still want you,

but the circumstances don't let you have them.



Aww that is so true, Fly

[Icarus]

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience. - Unknown

[Icarus]

Say hello to my little friend! - Tony Montana

[Alfa]

"Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them." -- Jerry Falwell, CNN’s Crossfire, May 1997

[Domus]

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

Aristippus

[Agent]

Evil indeed is the man who does not have a woman to morn him.

[Tndream]

When life gives you a lemons, make lemonade, and use it to wash down the xanax

[deceptively_shy_m]

The next time you question your wife's judgement, take a look at who she chose to marry.

[sweetnspicy]

i saw a dirty car today and the owner had written in the dirt......

"I wish my missus was this dirty"!!!!!:sex

[kissme]

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” Dr. Seuss

[Sneaky]

"Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination."
_ Grace Lichtenstein

[Han Solo]

"Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination."
_ Grace Lichtenstein

See!!......now quit trying to give me crap all the time.......thank you for FINALLY admitting after all this time that it really is YOU!!!!:ok

[Sneaky]

See!!......now quit trying to give me crap all the time.......thank you for FINALLY admitting after all this time that it really is YOU!!!!:ok

I was talking to YOU. I was saying it was YOU. Not me. YOU!:crs

[Han Solo]

I was talking to YOU. I was saying it was YOU. Not me. YOU!:crs


OH, Gotcha!!:o........guess I should have picked up on the whole "internal voices" thingy....my burst:sg

[Charmed]

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts. ~Author Unknown

[jmsmith12345]

“It tastes like squirrel.” - Mike Huckabee

[jmsmith12345]

“I’m not going to discuss what I played with this morning.” - Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA)

[Sneaky]

"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
-Susan Sontag

[jmsmith12345]

number one on my list for the year...

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." - George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008

[Alfa]

"By the way Lois, I got a piercing over there. I'm not going to tell you where but I will give you a hint--it wasn't on my nose or my ear and it was one of my balls." Peter Griffin

[MRsarcastic]

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.
Rodney Dangerfield

[Alfa]

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
Homer Simpson

[vicarious]

"Amigo! Amigo!" --George W. Bush, calling out to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Spanish at the G-8 Summit, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008

[Domus]

come on sweetheart
let's adore one another
before there is no more
of you and me...

[MCat]

" To dance confident in fringe panties
when you're five-four with cellulite,
is a great thing"

~Drew Barrymore

[MCat]

" If you always do what interests you,
at least one person is pleased."


~Katharine Hepburn

[texsgal]

Not sure who wrote this but I like the quote...

If, Ands & Buts were candy and nuts.. we'd all have a Merry Christmas

[stellabelle]

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? - Joe Namath

[littlelatinlady]

"This will pass...like gas." You know stinky for a bit- its all mine

[Guitar Strummer]

Sean Connery "always tell the truth. That way you make it someone elses problem if they don't like it"


Cheers!

[timd1223]

Abraham Lincoln
"better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt"

[timd1223]

Margaret Thatcher
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

[JonJon62]

“Be as you wish to seem.” -- Socrates ...

[jmsmith12345]

“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.”

- Oscar Wilde

[jmsmith12345]

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”

- Bill Cosby

[JonJon62]

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

[Sneaky]

"Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning a handspring, or eating with chopsticks; it looks so easy until you try it."
-Helen Rowland

[Guitar Strummer]

I don't know who gets the credit for this one but
"Everyone knows exactly how to raise your kids and will tell you your doing it wrong until they have their own"

[JonJon62]

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz,

[JonJon62]

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. ~Dr. Alexis Carrel

[scoobertina]

"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake." </I>
- William Blake, sent in by Lauren

[jmsmith12345]

“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.”

~ Vaclav Havel

[jmsmith12345]

If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem wonderful at all.

~ Michelangelo

[jmsmith12345]

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

~ Ernest Hemingway

[jmsmith12345]

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

[JonJon62]

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittier

[jmsmith12345]

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

~ Pablo Picasso

[Tiglet]

'Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.' - Josh Billings

[jmsmith12345]

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

~ George Bernard Shaw

[jmsmith12345]

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction."

~ Blaise Pascal

[Tiglet]

"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind.
To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better.
To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."

-King Whitney Jr.

[private beaches]

"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others". - Publius (http://www.just-quotes.com/cgi-bin/search/search.pl?q=Publius)

[JonJon62]

“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/to_love_is_to_risk_not_being_loved_in_return-to/9949.html)”

[pagirl]

Just got this on Email...love it!!!

"Be who you are and say what you feel...
Because those that matter... don't mind...
And those that mind... don't matter."

[cherokeered]

Whoever Gossips to you will Gossip about you.

[cherokeered]

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

[JonJon62]

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/love-anything-and-your-heart-will-be-wrung-and/347988.html)”

--C.S. Lewis

[MCat]

Whoever Gossips to you will Gossip about you.

Cher....you are so flippin smart! Did you write that one?:ok

[MCat]

"Nobody gets to live life backward.
Look ahead, that is where your future lies."


~Ann Landers

[jmsmith12345]

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

[jmsmith12345]

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

~ Andre Gide

[MCat]

"Spend the afternoon.
You can't take it with you."

~Annie Dillard

[timd1223]

"If you drink, don't drive, don't even putt" - Dean Martin

[JonJon62]

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

[jmsmith12345]

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."

~ Josh Billings

[Thumpintwin]

few things are harder to pu up with than the annoyance of a good example----Mark Twain

[JonJon62]

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/if_i_accept_you_as_you_are-i_will_make_you_worse/178990.html)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[JonJon62]

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney Smith

[JonJon62]

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it!

[jmsmith12345]

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

~ Oscar Wilde

[Tiglet]

I love Mr. Wilde JM

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." - Oscar Wilde

[JonJon62]

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ~Mark Twain

[JonJon62]

"Measure your wealth not by the things you have, but the things for which you would not take money."

[Alfa]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt

[mer]

Do Not Go Where The Path May Lead
Go Instead Where There Is No Path
And Leave A Trail!!

[jmsmith12345]

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

~ Edith Sitwell

[jmsmith12345]

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

~ Martha Washington

[Han Solo]

"To BE the man, you've gotta BEAT the man" ~Ric Flair


(OK, so I get my philosophical words to live by from alternative sources) :sg

[Tiglet]

"I am nobody
Nobody is perfect
Therefore, I must be perfect!"

[Han Solo]

"I am nobody
Nobody is perfect
Therefore, I must be perfect!"
Ironically that's what is printed on my OTHER boot :ok

[Tiglet]

“Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.'” - Mitch Hedberg

[jmsmith12345]

Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.

~ Demetri Martin

[jmsmith12345]

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

~ Bill Cosby

[tiger50]

try, try agin then quit, no sense in bein a damn fool

[Nomad(m)]

It doesnt pay to worry too much about the future. its comes quickly enough...

[Sneaky]

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

~ Edith Sitwell
I LOVE this one!!!

[cherokeered]

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Amos Bronson Alcott

[cherokeered]

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

[LJ328]

"There's no such thing as a mistake" - Unfaithful (movie)

[JonJon62]

When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.

Pierre Corneille


(http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Pierre_Corneille/)

[MCat]

"She that is loved is safe."


~Jeremy Taylor

[MCat]

"Owl, you and I have brains. The others have fluff.
If there is any thinking to be done
in this Forest-and when I say thinking
I mean thinking-you and I must do it."

~Winnie The Pooh

[JonJon62]

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. -Albert Einstein

[1sxymama]

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
-- Audrey Hepburn

[drkcloud]

" Hell, I crap bigger than Billy Crystal" Jack Palance at the academy awards

[JonJon62]

"When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams."

Dr Seuss

[Tiglet]

"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex." - Katherine Hepburn

[JonJon62]

“Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/some_people_grin_and_bear_it-others_smile_and_do/298233.html)”

-- unknown

[jmsmith12345]

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
~ George Washington (1732 - 1799)

[Thumpintwin]

He either fears his fate too much, or his desserts are small, that puts it not unto the touch to win or lose it all-

John Graham, Marques of Montrose

[JonJon62]

The one who makes you cry isn't worth your tears. The one who is worth your tears would never make you cry.

-- unknown

[Sneaky]

"She had observed that it was from those who had never sailed stormy waters came the quickest and harshest judgments on bad seamanship in heavey seas."
-Susan Glaspell, dramatist, theatre producer, and novelist

[Sneaky]

"Moderation is a colorless, insipid thing to counsel. To live less would not be living."
-Sister Madeleva, poet, scholar and educator

[jmsmith12345]

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
~ Oscar Wilde

[Sneaky]

"If you're not willing to lose, then you'll do whatever it takes to win, and you become someone you're not."
-Katie Couric

[Sneaky]

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
-Rita Mae Brown

[jmsmith12345]

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

[pagirl]

"Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."
-- William Shakespeare

[MrHyde]

"I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."
— David Sedaris (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2849.David_Sedaris)

[jmsmith12345]

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
~ Nadine Stair

[Sneaky]

"Nobody knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
-Marcelene Cox, writer

[jmsmith12345]

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

~ Albert Einstein

[MrHyde]

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. "
— Augusten Burroughs (http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3058.Augusten_Burroughs)

[jmsmith12345]

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

~ Steven Wright

[pagirl]

"Don't knock masturbation -- it's sex with someone I love."
-- Woody Allen

[MrHyde]

"If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American -- our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that."
— Jon Stewart (http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/466.Jon_Stewart)

[jmsmith12345]

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

~ Barack Obama

[MrHyde]

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
— George Carlin (http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/22782.George_Carlin)

[pagirl]

"You shouldn't compare yourself to others they are more screwed up than you think."

[pagirl]

Foresight is knowing when to shut your mouth before someone suggests it.

[pagirl]

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

[jmsmith12345]

Don't act so damned smug, and there are a dozen more out there waiting in line.

~ Me

[MrHyde]

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain (http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1655.Mark_Twain)

[pagirl]

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt

[pagirl]

It takes 42 muscles to frown and only four to extend my middle finger and tell you to bite me.

[MrHyde]

Don't act so damned smug, and there are a dozen more out there waiting in line.

~ Me

Along those lines:

"Don't be so picky, I wasn't."
-Hyde

[pagirl]

You're only bad if you're caught... So that makes me a good girl, RIGHT!

[Shawn]

Along those lines:

"Don't be so picky, I wasn't."
-Hyde

LOL.. C'mon Lower your standards... I did:ok

[Tiglet]

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams

[Tiglet]

Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. On the back it said, "Wish you were here." - Stephen Wright

[jmsmith12345]

"Did your sister teach you that trick?"

~ Me circa 1994

[pagirl]

"Always forgive your enemies-nothing annoys them so much."

[JonJon62]

"Pressure is what you feel when you don’t know what’s going on." -- Chuck Knoll

[pagirl]

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.
Kal Menninger

[JonJon62]

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

-- Albert Einsten

[MrHyde]

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/sigmundfre151788.html)

[jmsmith12345]

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
—Oscar Levant

[jmsmith12345]

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
—Kurt Vonnegut

[jmsmith12345]

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
—Oscar Wilde

[JonJon62]

“We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/we_say_we_waste_time-but_that_is_impossible-we/12680.html)”

Alice Bloch

[drkcloud]

You're only bad if you're caught... So that makes me a good girl, RIGHT!


you look good to me

[was4fun2003]

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

[JonJon62]

Silence is golden but duck tape is silver.

[Constance]

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

[liamm]

"Look to this day,
For it is Life
The very Life of Life
Yesterday is but a dream,
Tomorrow only a vision.
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a dream of Happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of Hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
Such is the salutation of the Dawn!
...from the Sanskrit..

[was4fun2003]

An honest man is always a child.

Socrates

[JonJon62]

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

-- Johann Pestalozzi

[JonJon62]

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels."

Bertolt Brecht

[Sneaky]

"Diappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intesifies, but never destroys it."
-Eliza Tabor

[Sneaky]

"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
-Margaret Atwood

[Sneaky]

"I envy paranoids: they actually feel people are paying attention to them."
-Susan Sontag