 | Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. ~Thomas Mann |
| Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead.
~Fannie Flagg |
| The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who
does not give up can move mountains. ~Ernest Hello |
| The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ~George Bernard
Shaw |
| Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one
else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
~Christopher Morley |
| I cannot always control what goes on outside, but I can always control what goes on
inside. ~Wayne Dyer |
| You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
~Zig Ziglar |
| I don't make mistakes. I experiment and occasionally get unusual results. |
| He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. ~Karl von
Knebel |
| To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. ~George MacDonala |
| Everybody is somebody else's weirdo. ~Dykstra |
| When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check
your yardstick. |
| Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
~Homer Simpson |
| If you really want something in this life, you have to work for
it. Now, quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers...
~Homer Simpson |
| Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys
the pig. ~Paul Dickson |
| The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little
drunk. ~Alben W. Barkley |
| A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
~Zig Ziglar |
| Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression.
That is what comics do, stand the world upside down. ~George Carlin |
| Take your life in your hands and what happens? A terrible
thing: no one to blame. ~Erica Jong |
| If we don't act upon our madness in the fanciful sense, we will
surely go mad in the classical sense. |
| People change and don't tell each other. ~Lillian Hellman |
| Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't
know how to laugh either. ~Golda Meir |
| What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In
that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. ~Woody Allen |
| Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can
you laugh at? ~Dan Fielding (Night Court) |
| You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
~James Thurber |
| After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the
inexpressible is music. ~Aldoos Huxley |
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science. ~Albert Einstein |
| We meet ourselves time and time again in a thousand disguises on
the path of life. ~Carl Jung |
| Forgiveness is our greatest achievement and our highest calling. |
| When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
~D.H. Lawrence |
| Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the
time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers |
| Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb |
| You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a
victor without having victims. ~Harriet Woods |
| Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell
people you are, you aren't. ~Margaret Thatcher |
| If you can't speak softly, just use the stick. |
| The problem with reality is the lack of background music. |
| What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over. |
| No matter how hard you throw a dead fish into the water, you can't
make him swim. ~Paul Zaloom |
| We have our arts so we won't die of truth. ~Ray Bradbury |
| A friend is someone who will tell you when you are wrong, and you
love them all the more for doing so. |
| Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science
fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? ~Kelvin Throop III |
| If the doors of perception are cleansed, everything would appear
to man as it is, infinite. ~William Blake |
| The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.
~Tom Waits, via Paul Fenton |
| Rational people are always bumping into rocks. I used to be
a rational person. I could show you scars. ~Alexei Panshin |
| In this world, there are more horses asses than there are horses.
~Ralph Fiala |
| May I always be the kind of person that my dog thinks I am. |
| May those who love us love us. And those who don't, may God
turn their hearts, and if He cannot turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles, so we
know them by their limps. ~Irish Prayer |
| When the habitually even tempered suddenly fly into a passion,
that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent among
us. ~Margery Allingham |
| Time is a cruel thief that robs us of our former selves. We
lose as much to life as we do to death. ~Elizabeth Hailey |
| Never chase a lie. Let it alone and it will run itself to
death. ~Lyman Beecher |
| Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of
American life: violence and committee meetings. ~George Will |
| If people concentrated on the really important things in life,
there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson |
| Talk not of wasted affection! Affection never was
wasted.... ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend
it to your neighbors. ~Rudyard Kipling |
| Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's
peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own
freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like
the leaves of Autumn. ~John Muir |
