Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Some Of My Fav. Quotes

Life is a risk.
Diane Von Furstenberg

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Jane Wagner

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
Unknown

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.
Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)

A joke is a very serious thing.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
English Proverb

Words divide us, actions unite us.
Slogan of the Tupamaros

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)

If it is to be, it is up to me.
Unknown

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
Robin Morgan

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
Anna M. Uhlich

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Amy Bloom

All general statements are false.
Unknown, The Ultimate Law

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Ralph Charell

Desire, ask, believe, receive.
Stella Terrill Mann

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), Valis

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
John Russell

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
Frank Crane

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976

To be an adult is to be alone.
Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Thoughts of a biologist (1939)

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams (1957 - )

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), speech, January 24, 1860

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)


All these Qoutes are from: http://www.quotationspage.com/

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