Todays Thought...

"I believe that sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it."

Garrison Keillor

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Other Thoughts...

"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."
Ted Williams

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle

"Imagination rules the world."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

Marcus Aurelius

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

Mohandas Gandhi

"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."

Dave Barry

"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."

Erich Fromm

"We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect."

Alanis Morissette

"We loved with a love that was more than love."

Edgar Allan Poe

"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."

Mae West

"When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars- that's heaven here on earth."

Bernie Mac

"Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older."

Isaac Hayes

"If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice."

Estelle Getty

"Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons."

Tony Snow

"Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time."

George Carlin

"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten."

George Carlin

"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."

George Carlin

"Weather forecast for tonight: dark."

George Carlin

"When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"

George Carlin

"People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think."

George Carlin

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."

George Carlin

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."

Frank Zappa

"Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said."

Mel Brooks

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

George S. Patton

"You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited."

Lisa Loeb

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

H. L. Mencken

"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

Jessamyn West

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have..."

Doris Mortman

"When you reach the top, keep climbing..."

Proverb

"Managing to have a sense of humor makes it a lot easier to manage people..."

Steve Wilson

"Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it..."

Anonymous

"If life were measured in accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy..."

A.P. Gouthey

It is not length of life, but depth of life..."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future."

Bernard Meltzer

"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war."

John Andrew Holmes

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

Carl Sandburg

"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Albert Camus

"Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night."

Paul Hornung

"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

Arnold H. Glasow

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord Acton

"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago."

Louis Armstrong

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."

George Jean Nathan

"Adversity introduces a man to himself..."

Thomas Fuller

"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor..."

William O. Douglas

"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough..."

Earl Wilson

"I never see what is done; I only see what remains to be done..."

Madame Currie

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely..."

Carl Jung

"Everything in life depends upon how life accepts it's limits..."

James Baldwin

"Do what you can with what you have where you are..."

Theodore Rossevelt

"The spaces between your fingers were created so that another hand could fill them."

Anonymoous

"Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible."

Anonymous

"You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough..."

J.E. Levine

"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad."

Arnold H. Glasgow

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

Robert F. Kennedy

"Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by."

John Sales

"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealised past."

Robertson Davies

"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."

Anonymous

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

Alexander Graham Bell

"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can, and surely will at times, fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."

Joyce Brothers

"...the honour of a maid is her name; and no legacy is so rich as honesty."

William Shakespeare

"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."

Euripides

"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."

George Eliot

"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature."

Stephen Stills

"I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in 14 days I lost two weeks."

Joe E. Lewis

"Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. If possible, you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge."

Marlene Dietrich

"Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything... even when you can not foresee the outcome."

Deepak Chopra

"That what we call sin in others is experiment for us."

Emerson

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."

Wilde

"Almost all of our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them..."

Rochefoucauld

"The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

Carlyle

"If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago..."

Hazlitt

"You can close your eyes to reality, but not to the memories..."

Anonymous

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

Socrates

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

Mark Twain

"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in."

Margaret Cho

"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."

Alan Watts

"The future is much like the present, only longer."

Dan Quisenberry

"If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?"

Shantideva

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

William Shakespeare

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

Dr. Seuss

"Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together."

Author Unknown

"Sorrow makes us all children again- destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."

E. Joseph Cossman

"You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it."

John Updike

"Jealousy and love are sisters."

Russian Proverb

"Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time."

Thomas Carlyle

"There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable."

Mark Twain

"We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned."

Ugo Betti

"May the devil chase you every day of your life and never catch you."

Irish Toast

"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."

Willa Cather

"Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again."

Rosa Parks

"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep."

Dale Carnegie

"Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom."

Merry Browne

"Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color."

W.S. Merwin

"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."

Theodore M. Hesburgh

"True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive."

Mignon McLaughlin

"Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty."

Raisa Gorbachev

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

Elie Wiesel

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

Anaïs Nin

"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success."

Havelock Ellis

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

Goethe

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

Blaise Pascal

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

Lord Byron

"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."

Richard M. Nixon

"For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."

H. L. Mencken

"Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something."

Dennis Prager

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."

Alan Cohen

"Repentance is another name for aspiration."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it."

Joan Vinge

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."

Anais Nin

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."

Thomas Jefferson

"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."

William Butler Yeats

"A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."

Thomas A. Edison

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"

Eugene Kennedy

"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"

Alfred Lord Tennyson

"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

Mignon McLaughlin

"When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me."

Aaron Copland

"As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy."

Antisthenes

"Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him."

Louis L'Amour

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

Albert Einstein

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."

James Thurbe

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."

Al Franken

"In jealousy there is more self-love than love."
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Do not mistake consequence for fate."

Kirstin Brown

"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better...while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more."

Woody Allen

"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."

Lord Chesterfield

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

James Baldwin

"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."

George Santayana

"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions."

David Borenstein

"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealised past."

Robertson Davies

"Reality is not always probable, or likely."

Jorge Luis Borges

"Through struggle to the stars."

Motto of the Mulvany Family

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."

E. M. Forster

"Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

Napoleon Hill

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"If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming..."

Japanese Proverb

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Alan Kay

"Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way."

Cyril Connolly

"The best proof of love is trust."

Joyce Brothers

"Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you - that is what has distressed me."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Love conquers all."

Virgil

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Nostalgia is a seductive liar."

George Ball

"If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused."

Walter F. Mondale

"If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune."

Count Basie

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."

H. L. Mencken

"I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace."

Muhammad Ali

"Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it."

Tori Amos

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."

Arnold H. Glasow

"Do not follow vain desires, for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger."

Abu Bakr

"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today."

Malcolm X

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."

Juvenal

"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."

Daniel Webster

"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."

George Orwell

"If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong."

Simon Rattle

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

Robert Frost

"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

Calvin Trillin

"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."

Robert Browning

"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

Amos Bronson Alcott

"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough."

Bede Jarrett

"People living deeply have no fear of death."

Anais Nin

"I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see."

Camille Claudel

"What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning."

Barbara De Angelis

"Earlier today I noticed all the cows were sprawled out on the wet grass. I thought I ought to tell them to get up because they would get rheumatism. Then I realised that they wouldn't live long enough to get rheumatism, which is very sad."

Jilly Cooper

"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."

Brigitte Bardot

"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too."

Josh Billings

"My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise."

Karl Shapiro

"I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust."

Geronimo

"I may stray once in a while, but I stay pretty close to the road map. I tend not to wind up in Australia when I'm heading for Portugal."

David Eddings

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

Michel de Montaigne

"Love is my religion- I could die for it."

John Keats

"Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious."

Bill Maher

"A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away."

Bil Keane

"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings."

Henry David Thoreau

"Love is being stupid together."

Paul Valery

"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged. He wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

John Adams

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

George Bernard Shaw

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

Jean Paul Richter

"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."

David Byrne

"The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo."

Aldrich Ames

"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle

"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."

Henri Frederic Amiel

"...and jazz is also for the body because it is rhythmic, but it's also for the mind and for the soul, and it is very creative."

Herbie Hancock

"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws."

John Coltrane

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"When I was 20 or 21, I didn't...I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself."

Thierry Henry

"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago."

Louis Armstrong

"When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death."

Dennis Quaid

"I was a very frustrated, lonely and anti-social young man. I felt very alienated and very bored as well."

Brian Molko

"I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it."

Michael J. Fox

"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

Robert Wyatt

"Time after time, we are finding incidents where common sense and good practices of democracies are being violated."

Jay Inslee

"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"

Christina Aguilera

"Sadness is also a kind of defense."

Ivo Andric

"A film is, or should be, more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."

Stanley Kubrick

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Life must be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."

Soren Kierkegaard

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires."

Abigail Van Buren

"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."

Barbara Jordan

"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought."

Lin Yutang

"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."

Edward Albee

"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not."

Akhenaton

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget."

Chaim Herzog

"How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot."

Christina Applegate

"We will never forgive. Never forget. Never excuse."

Ron Silver

"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear."

Mark Twain

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."

Edward W. Howe

"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

Mignon McLaughlin

"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

Charles Caleb Colton

"For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."

Adlai E. Stevenson

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."

Winston Churchill

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."

Leonard Bernstein

"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it."

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship- never."

Charles Caleb Colton

"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed."

Irene Peter

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."

William Penn

"If you want to be found, stand where the seeker seeks."

Sidney Lanier

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."

Garrison Keillor

"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."

Elbert Hubbard

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Ambrose Bierce

"To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering."

Claude Vorilhon

"God writes a lot of comedy. The trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny."

Garrison Keillor

"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."

Henry David Thoreau

"A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist."

Elbert Hubbard

"The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles."

Garrison Keillor

"Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it."

Garrison Keillor

"Here's to the confusion of our enemies!"

Frank Sinatra

"Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment."

John Barrow

"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well."

Jim Rohn

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

Wayne Dyer

"Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind."

Washington Allston

"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."

Quentin Crisp

"Life is wasted on the living."

Douglas Adams

"The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex."

Alfred Adler

"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."

William Lyon Phelps

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."

Gustav Mahler

"I want to resume the life of a shy person."

Garrison Keillor

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."

Thomas E. Lawrence

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."

Andre Gide

"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."

William James

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."

Russell Baker

"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."

George Carlin

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Oscar Wilde

"This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims!"

Matthew Arnold

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

Dave Barry

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

Henry Van Dyke

"Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night."

Paul Hornung

"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."

George W. Bush

"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!"

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

Alice Walker

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."

George W. Bush

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

Albert Einstein

"The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club."

Dave Barry

"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

Dale Carnegie

"I like to listen to classical music...I like mainline jazz."

Herb Alpert

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle

"A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing."

Joey Adams

"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."

Garrison Keillor

"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."

Samuel Pepys

"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them. There ought to be as many for love."

Margaret Atwood

"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."

David Byrne

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

Maya Angelou

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

Hannah Arendt

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."

Irving Berlin

"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

Cyril Connolly

"Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be."

George Santayana

"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."

Paul Gauguin

"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat."

Robert Byrne

"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think."

Edwin Schlossberg

"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."

Shakti Gawain

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."

Cato the Elder

"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves."

Bruce Grocott

"Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature."

Kin Hubbard

"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"

Charles M. Schulz

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing."

Abraham Lincoln

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope."

Aeschylus

"Do not judge men by mere appearances, for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy."

E. H. Chapin

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."

George S. Patton

"Good habits result from resisting temptation."

Ancient Proverb

"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."

Elizabeth Taylor

"If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?"

Shantideva

"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."

Herb Caen

"If you don't risk anything you risk even more."

Erica Jong

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."

George Bernard Shaw

"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."

Scott Adams

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

Oscar Wilde

"This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past."

Agathon

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."

Elizabeth I

"That's the secret to life- replace one worry with another."

Charles M. Schulz

"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."

Herb Caen

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence."

Elihu Burritt

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

Douglas Adams

"It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way."

Aristotle

"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."

Anatole France

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Benjamin Disraeli

"And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle."

Stan Dunn

"The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them."

Madame de Lambert

"Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired."

Robert Frost

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

Socrates

"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends...that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

"That's the secret to life...replace one worry with another..."

Charles M. Schulz

"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money."

Arthur Miller

"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."

Anatole France

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

Tennessee Williams

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."

Abraham Lincoln

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

Benjamin Franklin

"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters."

Aesop

"It's a dangerous business going out your front door."

J. R. R. Tolkien

"The less their ability, the more their conceit."
Ahad Haam

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?"

Dolores Huerta

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."

Ursula K. LeGuin

"All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things."

Bobby Knight

"I am not young enough to know everything."

Oscar Wilde

"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."

Andre Maurois

"Necessity has no law."

William Langland

"Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable."

Cyril Connolly

"I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

Blaise Pascal

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."

Aaron Rose

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

Lenin

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

Ernest Hemingway

"Our envy of others devours us most of all."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"To be an adult is to be alone."

Jean Rostand

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

Robin Morgan

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

Publilius Syrus

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

Victoria Holt

"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"

Harry Shearer

"Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Better be quarrelling than lonesome."

Irish Proverb

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."

Woody Allen

"Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself."

Elie Wiesel

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

Voltaire

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

Cyril Connolly

"After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone."

Henry Bromel

"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."

Garrison Keillor

"Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess."

Heinrich Heine

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."

Bertrand Russell

"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."

Alanis Morissette

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

Dag Hammarskjold

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

Albert Einstein

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them."

Charles Caleb Colton

"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."

Aeschylus

"Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death."

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."

George Sewell

"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."

Don Marquis

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."

Clare Booth Luce

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley

"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."

Alfred North Whitehead

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

Anne Frank

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

Herm Albright

"Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open."

Elmer G. Letterman

"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."

Alfred Korzybski

"Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't."

Brett Butler

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

Aldous Huxley

"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time."

Oprah Winfrey

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

Carol Burnett

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

Albert Einstein

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

George Bernard Shaw

"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in."

Margaret Cho

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."

Kahlil Gibran

"The less their ability, the more their conceit."

Ahad Haam

"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

"The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage."

Thucydides

"The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice."

Abbe' D'Allanival

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

Aristotle

"The only cure for grief is action."

George Henry Lewes

"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way."

Carl Sandburg

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

Andy Warhol

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Abraham Lincoln

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

Aldous Huxley

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

Albert Schweitzer

"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."

Doug Larson

"A person who trusts no one can't be trusted."

Jerome Blattner

"Compassion is the basis of all morality."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."

Alan Watts

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?"

Benjamin Franklin

"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president."

Johnny Carson

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

Ronald Reagan

"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop

"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Michel de Montaigne

"Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't."

Brett Butler

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible."

Albert Einstein

"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success."

Brian Adams

"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made."

Dan Quayle

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

Ben Stein

"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."

Bill Lyon

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted."

James Branch Cabell

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."

Cullen Hightower

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

Aristotle

"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop

"Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage."

Babylonian Talmud

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

Andy Warhol

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."

Bernard Bailey

"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle

"Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself."

Ausonius

"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

Benjamin Franklin

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

Dag Hammarskjold

"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."

Ice T

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."

Bertrand Russell

"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."

Tennessee Williams

"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome."

Oscar Levant

"To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

Oscar Wilde

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."

Rita Mae Brown

"Trust, but verify."

Ronald Reagan

"Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance."

Robert Collier

"All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others."

Cynthia Heimel

"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."

Clarence Day

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often- just to save it from drying out completely."

Pam Brown

"To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

Oscar Wilde

"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run."

Elbert Hubbard

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."

W. C. Fields

"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it."

Mark Twain

"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough."

Bede Jarrett

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

William Shakespeare

"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."

Kahlil Gibran

"I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time."

Charlie Brown

"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."

A. C. Benson

"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough."

Bede Jarrett

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

Marcus Aurelius

"Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that."

D. H. Lawrence

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth."

Charles-Damian Boulogne

"Beware the fury of a patient man."

John Dryden

"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember."

Virgil

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

Carl W. Buechner

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."

Johann von Goethe

"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved."

Niccolo Machiavelli

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory."

Georges Duhamel

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

Henry Kaiser

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."

Theodore Rubin

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

William Shakespeare

"Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions."

Ben Stein

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."

Anonymous

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

Japanese Proverb

"Years and sins are always more than owned."

Italian Proverb

"No man is ever old enough to know better."

Holbrook Jackson

"The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me."

Sloan Wilson

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

William Shakespeare

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

Douglas Adams

"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."

Charles Horton Cooley

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

Anonymous

"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."

Claude M. Bristol

"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for..."

Thornton Wilder

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates

"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"

Kahlil Gibran

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."

Buddha

"We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love."

Whitney Moore, Jr.

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan, and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

Joseph Roux

"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."

Elbert Hubbard

"Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly."

U. Peter

"Don't steal. The government hates competition."

Anonymous

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

Buddha

"A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."

Kenneth A. Wells

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking."

Vincent McNabb

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

Albert Einstein

"Silence is one great art of conversation."

Anonymous

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."

Joseph Roux

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems."

Arthur O'Shaunessey

"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."

A. C. Benson

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

Plato

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."

Josh Billings

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

"The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved."

Gay Talese

"My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint, diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit."

Stravinski

"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."

E. M. Cioran

"It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer."

William Blackstone

"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

Henry Miller

"The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing."

Anonymous

"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing."

Joseph Roux

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates

"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"

Kahlil Gibran

"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice."

Anonymous

"Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished."

Orison Swett Marden

"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people."

Alexis Carrel

"To change and to change for the better are two different things."

German Proverb

"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision."

Gary Collins

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."

Buddha

"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."

Nora Ephron

"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved."

Niccolo Machiavelli

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"

John Greenleaf Whittier

"Minds are like parachutes- they work best when open."

Lord Thomas Dewar

"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 J. Harris

"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently."

Charles Dudley Warner

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."

Buddha

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

Marcus Aurelius

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

Carl W. Buechner

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates

"No one is listening until you make a mistake."

Anonymous

"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."

Swedish Proverb

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."

Anonymous

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

Kahlil Gibran

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

Kahlil Gibran

"If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal."

Edgar Jepson and Maurice Leblanc

"Things do not change; we change."

Henry David Thoreau

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

Albert Schweitzer

"I have had just about all I can take of myself."

S. N. Behrman

"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world."

Aristotle

"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

Dostoyevsky

"Nothing Brings People together more, then mutual hatred..."

Henry Rollins

"The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it."

C.S. Lewis

"Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary

"The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict."

Elizabeth Drew

"When I feel a little confused the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart."

Raoul Dufy

"Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; & neither feeling is quite within our control."

Arthur Schoperhauer

"There is nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their 'discomfort' like a favorite shirt."

Jhonen Vasquez

"Never has there been a good war or a bad peace."

Benjamin Franklin

"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

"I've decided, I'm going to feed every little addiction and silently go mad 'cause right now my writing sucks..."

Zaffel

"A friend is always good to have, but a lovers kiss is better than angels raining down on me..."

Dave Matthews

"As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency."

John Cage

"If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved."

Gregory Corso

"We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?"

David Foster Wallace

"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 J. Harris

"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss."

Jonathan Larson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."

Anonymous

"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 grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

George Washington

"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice."

Anonymous

"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg."