 | We get what we give, and find what we expect. |
| It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be
expected from the strong. ~Rosten |
| Due to the shape of the American elk's esophagus, even if it could
speak, it could not pronounce the word "lasagna". ~Cliff Claven,
"Cheers" |
| It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is
essential is invisible to the eye. ~St. Exupery |
| We must not cease from exploration, and the end of all our
exploring will be to arrive where we began, and know the place for the first time.
~T.S. Elliot |
| I could have missed the pain, but I would have missed the dance. |
| Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside
of a dog, it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx |
| What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ~Horace |
| If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away. ~Thoreau |
| Every time we learn something new, we become something new. |
| While there's life, there's hope. ~Cicero |
| You only become real... when your fur has been rubbed off.
~M.W. |
| Every day is new. Every flower is new. Every face is
new. Everything in your life is new every morning of your life. |
| We are a culture of goal-seekers. It's not the goal, it's
the trip that's life. |
| There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence
without integrity. ~Samuel Johnson |
| There's small choice in rotten apples. ~Shakespeare |
| Happiness is learning to accept the impossible, do without the
indispensable, and bare the intolerable. |
| A loving person lives in a loving world, a hostile person lives in
a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. ~Ken Keys Jr. |
| Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.
~Richard Nixon |
| You have a responsibility to become all that you are. When
you lose you, there is nothing left. Maintain your dignity; maintain your integrity.
Nobody can put you down except you. They may see you differently, but you
know who you are. ~Leo Buscgalia |
| Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought to
myself, "Where the hell's the ceiling?!" |
| A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account
was, the sort of house I lived in, the kind of car I drove-- but the world may be
different because I was important in the life of a child. |
| How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor
says or does or thinks, but only what he does himself.... ~Antonius |
| In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
~Erasmus |
| We rarely find people that have good sense, unless they agree with
us. ~Rochefoucauler |
| If life hands you lemons, stick them in your bra-- can't hurt,
might help. |
| Forget your mistakes, but remember the lessons they taught you. |
| When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you
won't come back with mud, either. ~Leo Burnett |
| We are, each of us, angels with one wing, and we can fly only
embracing one another. ~Luciano Decrescenzo |
| Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its
existence on its stated purpose. ~Benjamin Desraili |
| We will either find a way or make one. ~Hannibal |
| A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he that has found one has
found a treasure. ~The Bible |
| It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
~Anthony Robbins |
| If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to
the thing itself, but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at
any moment. ~Marcus Aurelius |
| The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go
beyond them into the impossible. ~Arthur C. Clarke |
| He too serves a purpose who only stands and cheers. ~Henrey
Adams |
| We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
~Talmud |
| To smell the roses isn't enough. They must be tended as
well. |
| Eat a live toad first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will
happen to you all day. |
| We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too
little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. ~Bertrand Russell |
| Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does
with what happens to him. ~Aldous Huxley |
| Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its
original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~Albert
Einstein |
| In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty
heart there is room for nothing. ~Antonio Porchia |
| Fool's names like fool's faces are often seen in public places. |
| The expense of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
~George Orwell |
| Nobody ever went to his deathbed wishing he'd spent more time at
the office. ~Michael Josephson |
| Assumption is the mother of screw up.
~Angelo Donghia
|
| Tell me what you pay attention to, and I'll tell
you who you are. ~Jose O Gasset
|
| For you in my respect are all the world: Then how
can it be said I am alone, when all the world is here to look on me? ~Shakespeare
|
| ...'scuse me while I kiss the sky. ~James
Marshall
|
| There's nothing like a little experience to upset
a theory.
|
| If we weren't meant to keep starting over, why
would God have given us Mondays?
|
| The main thing is to keep the main thing the main
thing.
|
| What fits together goes together, and the rest is
thrown away.
|
| Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually
suspicious.
|
| There is no right way to do the wrong thing.
|
| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
want to test a man's character, give him power.
|
| Sleep on what you plan to do. Don't stay
awake over what you have done.
|
| I loathe people who keep dogs. They are
cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. ~August Strndberg
|
| The most wasted day of all is that during which we
have not laughed. ~Sebastian Chamfort
|
| No matter how cynical you get, you can't keep up.
~Lily Tomlin
|
| No man means all he says, and yet very few say all
they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ~Henry B. Adams
|
| I don't want to achieve immortality through my
work. I want to achieve immorality through not dying. ~Woody Allen
|
| Never argue with a fool. People might not
know the difference.
|
| Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines
himself pure of heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ~James
Baldwin
|
