 | Cornflakes are not the innocent critters they seem.
~Sterling Morrison |
| Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so
small that you'd think the mere fact of existence would keep us all in a contented
dazzlement of surprise. ~Lweis Thomas |
| A honestly misinformed person upon hearing the truth will either
quit being misinformed or quit being honest. ~Denis Aldrich |
| I feel that there is an angel within me whom I am continually
shocking. ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal
lobotomy. ~Ian Anderson |
| Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought.
~Henri Bergson |
| If a picture wasn't going well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a
mongrel, you know, never one of the full breed puppies. And then I'd put a bandage
on its foot... I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of it. ~Normal Rockwell |
| Life you must live to the limit
Every day, every hour, every minute
But in retrospect
It's fun to reflect
How you thought you were important in it. |
| Trust thyself. Every heart vibrates to that inner string.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| little by little
time goes by
short if you sing it
long if you sigh. |
| By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted. ~Albert Einstein |
| Work like you don't need the money
Dance like no one is watching
And love like you've never been hurt. ~Mark Twain |
| If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening,
be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
~Winnie the Pooh |
| Between sadness and excitement, lies the shoe department.
~Tatiana Fernandez |
| Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses
in things that are properly their business. ~Paul Valry |
| It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the
past. ~C.S. Lewis |
| 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 first step in fixing something is getting it to break.
~Tracy Kidder |
| Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it
crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their
place. ~Mark Twain |
| One man scorned and covered with scars
still strove with his last ounce of courage
to reach the unreachable stars;
and the world will be better for this. ~Cervantes |
| There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy
in the streets? ~Dick Cavett |
| Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent,
hard working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the
publicity. But then, we elected them. ~Lily Tomlin |
| Duct tape is like the force. It has a dark side, a light
side, and it holds the universe together. ~Carl Zwanig |
| I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy
is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end
of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. ~Dr. Seuss |
| I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner
need to complain. ~Jane Wagner |
| This is my "depressed stance." When you're
depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is
straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If
you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.
~Charlie Brown |
| When we lose the right to be different, we lost the privilege to
be free. ~Louis Brandeis |
| We can never be sure that the opinion that we are endeavoring to
stifle is a false opinion, and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
~John Stuart Mill |
| Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in
mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without
hate-- and quickly. ~Lazarus Long |
| Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an
obstacle. ~Ken Hakuta |
| A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
~Adlai Stevenson |
| Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
~H. Mildred Barthel |
| Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright
exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. ~Helen Keller |
| Make no judgments where you have no compassion. ~Anne
McCaffrey |
| The absent are never without fault, nor the present without
excuse. ~Ben Franklin |
| We weep when we are born, not when we die. ~Thomas Bailey
Aldrich |
| When your values are clear, your decision making is easy.
~Walt Disney |
| Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
~Judith Stern |
| Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has
changed. ~Southern California Oracle |
| I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ~Abraham Lincoln |
| It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and impossible to
find it elsewhere. ~Agnes Repplier |
| We think caged birds sing when indeed they cry. ~John
Webster |
| A tree never hits an automobile, except in self defense. |
| You cannot think about thinking without thinking about thinking
about something. ~Seymour Papert |
| The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed.
Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it is considered to be your
style. ~Fred Astaire |
| Dreams have but one owner at a time. That is why dreamers
are lonely. ~Erma Bombeck |
| Nurture your mind with great thoughts. ~Benjamin Disraeli |
| Do what you can with what you have where you are. ~Theodore
Roosevelt |
| No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
~William Blake |
| The last of human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
~Victor Frankl |
| What the world needs is some do-give-a-damn pills. ~William
Menninger |
| Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in
others belong to us as well. ~Voltaire |
| You have your brush, you have your colors. You paint your
paradise, then in you go. ~Nikos Kazantzakis |
| Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the
overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller |
| My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
~Better Midler |
| If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about
it, that's the way we learn. ~Earl Warren |
| You are all you will ever have for certain. ~June Havoc |
| Worry is an abuse of God's gift of imagination. ~Corrine
Lajeunesse |
| As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.
~Donald Trump |
| Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either
genius irritated or cleverness juggling. ~Kahlil Gibran |
