• Jul. 27, 2008
Some cool quotes
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort. - Jesse Owens
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? - Dennis and Wendy Mannering
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. -
Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. - Author Unknown
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusky recesses of their minds, wake up in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. - Thomas
Every thought is a seed. When you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. - Bill Meyer
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - M. Kathleen Casey
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. - William Shakespeare
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. - Kay Knudsen
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - e.e. cummings
I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He wouldn't trust me so much. - Mother Theresa
There is just one life for each of us: our own. - Euripides
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucious
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. - Jewish Proverb
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. - Mark Twain
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. - Barbara Bloom
One man with courage makes a majority. - Andrew Jackson
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake
To loose one's self in reveries, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes. - Antoine Rivarol
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. - Author Unknown
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. - Steven Wright
Your friend is a man who knows all about you, and still likes you. - Elbert Hubbard
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint from the mouths of people who have had to live. - Mark Twain
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. -
While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. - Leonardo Da Vinci
The world is round and the place that may seem like the end may also be the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. - Marcel Proust
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. - Stephen King
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. - Ernestine Ulmer
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy
How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away. - Bill Copeland
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and lips to pucker. - Author Unknown
He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. - Benjamin Franklin
You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. - Laurence J. Peter
I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. - Author Unknown
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. - Author Unknown
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. - Lauren Bacall
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. - Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie
Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that seperates those who have grown up absurd from this who will, with luck, grow up absurd. - Bernard Rosenburg, Dictionary for the Disenchanged, 1972
We're all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone who's weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. - Author Unknown
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it. - Author Unknown
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Spanish Proverb
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. - Margaret Laurence
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" - William A. Ward
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C.S. Lewis
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. - G.K. Chesterton
True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Gratitude is merely the secret hope for further favors. - Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Lots of people want to drive with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. - Oprah Winfrey
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. - Isaac Friedmann
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington
Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. - Swedish Proverb
Love is blind; hate is deaf. - Author Unknown
For every minute you're angry, you loose sixty seconds of happiness. - Author Unknown
Tell a man there's 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure. - Murphy's Law
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. - Frances Ward Weller
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Let us be thankful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. - Samuel Butler, Erewhon
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. - Will Rogers
If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. - Author Unknown
It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions. - Author Unknown
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. - Lord Chesterfield
People who snore always fall asleep first. - Author Unknown
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? - Author Unknown
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. - Joseph Addison, The Spectator
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, 1995
I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror. - Elaine Dundy
