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Do not be afraid to show kindness to strangers, you may be entertaining an angel.

We have not inherited the Earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children.
-- Ancient Proverb

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
-- Cree Indian Prophecy

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back it is yours. If it doesn't, it never was.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-- Emerson

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
-- Socrates

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
-- Joseph Fort Newton

It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something.
-- Jerrold

The greatest pleasure of life is love.
-- Sir W. Temple

Love gives itself; it is not bought.
-- Longfellow

It is better to have loved and lost, than not to love at all.
-- Tennyson

Love is love's reward.
-- Dryden

If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.
-- Doddridge

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
-- Proverbs 11:24

You can't be poor if you have a friend.

The man who removed the mountain started by carrying away small stones.

If only the power of love was as great as the love of power.

Be kind and gentle to those who are old; For kindness is better, and dearer than gold.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
-- Old English Proverb

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Remember: a kind word is never wasted.

It is hope that makes the future.

The most wasted of all days is the day when we have not laughed.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Wisdom is in the head, not in the beard.

A thing too often seen is not held dear.

Being young is a fault which improves daily.

One never falls, but on the side toward which one leans.

Better to suffer for the truth than to be rewarded for a lie.

He who threatens is always afraid.

Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.

There is no such thing as a necessary man.

Common sense is not so common.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

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

Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.
-- Hans Christian Anderson

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

Kind thoughts are the flowers, kind deeds are the fruits.

No matter what, no matter where -- It's always home if love is there.
-- Dutch Proverb

When other things are past and gone. A mothers love lives on and on.
-- Dutch Proverb

Love of learning is the key to knowledge.

The best way to convince anyone he is wrong is to let him have his way.

Feelings are not like faucets you can turn on and off.

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love till you give it away.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
-- Washington Irving

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy

Good teaching is 1/4 preperation and 3/4 theater.
-- Gail Godwin

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
-- Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson

Copy from one, it plagiarism, copy from two, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner

Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
-- Thomas Watson, 1943 Chairman of IBM

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
-- Will Rogers

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-- Irving Kristol

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
-- Ken Olson, 1977 Digital Corp.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
-- Bill Gates, 1981

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
-- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express, Corp.)

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
-- H. M. Warner, 1927 Warner Bros.

We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording, rejecting The Beatles in 1962

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
-- Charles H. Duell, 1899 Commis. US Patent Office

There are two ways to live you life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
-- Dr. Robert Schuller

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
-- Voltaire

Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
-- James Russell Lowell

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
-- William Faulkner

One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us.
-- Virgil A. Kraft

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
-- Charles Schulz

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain

When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing.

Never mistake motion for action.

Well done is better than well said.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Lead. Follow. Or get out of the way!

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein

You know nothing for sure... except the fact that you know nothing for sure.
-- John F. Kennedy

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
-- Joseph Addison

Justifying a fault doubles it.
-- French Proverb

Poisons pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
-- Dorothy Parker

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Only those who attempt the absured... will achiece the impossible.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
-- Walt Disney

There are several good precautions against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
-- Mark Twain

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
-- Nancy Reagan

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward

Only the educated are free.
-- Epictetus

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

The United States Supreme Sourt has handed down the eleventh commandment, 'Thou shalt not, in any classroom, read the first ten'.

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
-- Philip K. Dick

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
-- Mark Twain

I disapprove with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall, paraphrasing Voltaire

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
-- Lord Acton

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
-- John VII
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
-- Aldous Huxley

You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'
-- George Bernard Shaw

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
-- Niels Bohr

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
-- Plutarch

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
-- Sigmund Freud

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt.
-- Mark Twainn

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
-- Robert Benchley

If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
-- Elbert Hubbard

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
-- Abraham Lincoln

There are some things that are so serious that you have to laugh at them.
-- Niels Bohr

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
-- Vernon Howard

One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
-- Margaret Meade

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
-- Redd Foxx

It is better to place a fence at the edge of a cliff than to have an ambulance waiting at the bottom.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
-- Mark Twain

A sweater is a garment worn by a child when his mother feels chilly.

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
-- Yiddish Proverb

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
-- Franklin P. Jones

It is the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
It is the dream afraid of waking tha never takes a chance.
It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give.
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
-- Bette Midler, The Rose

Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was loved?
-- Anzia Yezierska

A layman knows he has to kick it; An amateur knows where to kick it; A professional knows how hard.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
-- Carl Zwanzig

Out the 10-Base-T, through the router, down the T1, over the leased line, off the bridge, past the firewall... nothing but NET.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.
-- Albert Einstein

If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
-- Anatole Fance

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was depreived. (oh not depreived but rather underpriveleged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.
-- Jules Feiffer (1965)

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.
-- Henry David Thoreau

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibium that existed 10,000 years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
-- Edward O. Wilson

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
-- Socrates

If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who we really are.
-- Jean Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

We have too many people who live without working, And we have altogether too many who work without living.
-- Charles R. Brown

A tour jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
-- Longfellow

To live is the rarest thing in the world -- most people exist -- that is all.

A wise man must be wise before, not after the event.

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, And if by chance we find each other, It's beautiful.
-- Frederick S. Peals

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be it's parent.

Don't take life too seriously; You'll never get out of it alive anyway.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Folks can tolerate being either loved or hated -- but not ignored.

Hard times are those periods during which we build strong men.

If you could get rid of all your problems -- boredom would become your problem.

He who waits for tomorrow has only a lot of empty yesterdays.

Character, not power, makes the person.

Thinking is when your mouth is closed and your head is talking to itself.

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
-- W. A. "Billy" Sunday

Love without commitment is an imposter.

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take your eyes off the Lord.

He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.

Responsibilities gravitate to the man who can shoulder them.

Experience is what a man does with what happens to him.

The wise carry their knowledge as they do their watches, not for display, but for use.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but not so popular.

There are no problems, only challenges.

Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time, And sometimes you weep.
-- Carl Sandburg

Faith to live by.
Self to l ive with.
Purpose to live for.

Character is like the foundation to a house... it is below the surface.

Things will have to change in order that they stay the same.

When God puts a tear in your eye, it's because he wants to put a rainbow in your heart.

You may have riches of silver and gold, but you'll never be as rich as me. For I had a mother who read to me.

Any man can be a Father. But it takes someone special to be a Daddy.

All things bright and beautiful,
All things great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.

Dear Children:
There seems to be some question about who I am, where I live and what I do. Let me answer those questions here and now. I am the spirit of giving, and it is not important that those receiving know where the gift comes from. I live in each of you and your friends. When you look into the eyes of your brothers, sisters and neighbors... and see love and understanding, free of prejudice and self-interest... then you know what it is I do. You might think I only work one day each year, but let me tell you a secret. I work everyday of the year for those who really believe in me.
Love,
S. Claus
-- Sanders

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
-- Phyllis Diller

Life is uncertain, eat dessert first.
-- Ernestine Ulmer

It takes more than a Supreme Court ruling to stop segregation.

No one can make you feel anything.

Be yourself.

Just Do It!
-- Nike

Education doesn't always equal intelligence.

Everything that has beauty has a body and is a body; Everything that has being has being in the flesh; And dreams are only drawn from the bodies that are.
-- D. H. Lawrence, Bodiless God

Humankind's deepest misunderstanding is seperating God from His creation. When God is seen in all things, as the Native Americans saw God, there exists harmony, balance, and a love and respect for all life. When we abuse the Earth, we spit into God's face.
-- The Source

For those who believe all life is precious, the Lair of the Snow Leopard lies as much in the heart as in the mountains.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me, since I never retreat.

The ladder of success must be set upon nsomething solid before you can start to climb.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize that your children and your clothes are about the same age.

Money isn't everything and I wish I had a dollar for every time I've said that.

There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress -- to forget you are wearing it.

Let your life be counted by the milestones of achievement, and not by the timepiece of years.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it.

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.
-- B. Cotton

Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
-- Henry Ford

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
-- Vince Lombardi

Don't miss the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for the pot of gold.

Every story has 3 sides: yours, mine, and the facts.
-- Rene Fumoleau

The aim of education should be to teach us how to think rather than what to think.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merelly laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
-- Mark Twain

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.
-- Anwar al-Sadat

You have to be the best you can be with what you have.
-- Rick Hansen

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do during our leisure hours determines what we are.
-- George Eastman

To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so.
-- Abraham Lincoln

By the time somebody decides to make a long story short, it's already too late.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
-- Anne Bradstreet

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
-- Han Suyin

The diseases of the mind are more destructive than those of the body.
-- Cicero

Large streams from little fountains flow, large oaks from little acorns grow.
-- David Everett

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
-- Danish Proverb

Succes in life is to never let your ego outstrip your talent.
-- McIver

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.
-- Thomas Macaulay

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
-- Charles Dickens

Laughing is one of the more serious activities of mankind.

The thrill is not just in winning, but in the courage to join the race.

The key to longevity: keep breathing.
-- Sophie Tucker

Those who want much are always in need.
-- Muhammed

If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.
-- William Matthews

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
-- Edward Eggleston

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
-- Chinese Proverb

You never get a 2nd chance to make a 1st impression.
-- Pat Sullivan

Always behave like a duck... keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the dickens underneath.

The game isn't over till it's over.
-- Yogi Berra

The real achievers do one thing at a time.
-- P. Drucker

A dreamer lives forever.

To imagine is everything.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
-- L. J. Cardinal

What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning.

It is amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Dreams never pop, they just get recycled.

Sometimes even in our own world we are aliens.

The Earth has music for those who will listen.
-- O. W. Holmes

It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
-- Lucy M. Montgomery

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

To complete a dream, I start with a plan.

It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unkown capacity.
-- Stuart Luman Seaton

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
-- Pablo Casals

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
-- Louis D. Brandeis

He who makes excuses accuses himself.
-- French Proverb

Nature to be commanded, must be obeyed.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Are you going places or just being taken?
-- H. F. Heinrichs

In similar waters, similar fish are found.
-- Ruysch

Without our cares our joys would be less lively.
-- Catherine P. Traill

There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.

Education is hanging around will you've caught on.
-- Robert Frost

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.
-- William Shakespeare

Joy and courage make a handsome face.
-- French Proverb

A = R + P; Adventure equals Risk with a Purpose.
-- Robert McClure

Society is no comfort to one not sociable.
-- William Shakespeare

The city has a face, the country has a soul.
-- Jacques DeLacretelle

By helping somebody climb a mountain of problems, I solve some of mine too.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
-- Jonathan Swift

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
-- Margaret Mead

Where you come from is not nearly as important as where you're going.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.
-- Chief Dan George

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
-- Charles F. Kettering

Dreams are necessary to life.
-- Anais Nin

To see more is to become more.
-- Pierre Teilhard DeChardin

Don't grow a wish bone where you're back bone ought to be.
-- folksaying

Life is like loading twice your cargo weight onto your spacecraft. If it's canaries and you keep 1/2 of them flying all the time, you're all right.
-- Okona, Star Trek: The Next Generation

I never saw a Moor -
I never saw the Sea -
Yet know I how the Heather looks
And what a Billow be.

I never spoke with God
Nor visited in Heaven -
Yet certain am I of the sport
As if the Checks were given.
-- Emily Dickinson

Life is 10% what happens to us + 90% how we react to it.

Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is a dream, today is the reality... make the most of it.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein

Well, you're young. You know a lot you won't know later on.
-- Margaret Laurence

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
-- Johann Kepler

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers

The future is moade of the same stuff as the present.
-- Simone Weil

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.
-- William Matthews

He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary P. Poole

A promise made is a debt unpaid.
-- Robert W. Service

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
-- Leo Tolstoy

Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job.
-- J. C. Penney

We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
-- Albert Einstein

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
-- Benjamin Franklin

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
-- C. S. Lewis

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
-- Sir Walter Raleigh

Seems like everytime history repeats itself the price doubles.

To do great important tasks, two things are necessary: a plan and not quite enough time.

One who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
-- English Proverb

Dare to dream -- dare to try -- dare to fail -- dare to succeed.
-- G. Kinsley Ward

A weed is nore than a flower in disguise.
-- James R. Lowell

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
-- Jean Kerr

One who is wrapped up in oneself makes a small package.

He who loses his head is usually the last one to miss it.-+
-- Charles V. Stewart

There's a difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

There is hardly anything in this world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only, are this man's lawful prey.
-- John Ruskin

If you are planning for a year, sow rice. If you are planning for a decade, plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime, educate a person.
-- Ancient Chinese Proverb

If life is a performance, And I am not an actore, Am I supposed to lie down and die?
-- Juliana Hatfield

Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have.

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

A dark room is not the best place to develop a reputation.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Don't be so open minded that your brain falls out.

Experience: what allows you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

He who dies with the most toys is still dead.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
-- Rita Mae Brown

Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
-- Betrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays" 1928

"The Old Loony of Lyme"
There was an old loony of Lyme,
Whose candour was simply sublime;
When you asked, 'Are you there?'
'Yes' he said, 'but take care,
For I'm never "all there" at a time.'
Try to get all your posthumous medals in advance.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty.
-- Henrik Ibsen

Some people in this department wouldn't recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head.

Half moon tonight (At least it's better than no moon at all.)

User (n.): a programmer who will believe anything you tell him.

Immortality -- a fate worse than death.
-- Edgar A. Shoaff

What this country needs is a dime that will buy a good $.05 bagel.

Malek's Law: Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.

Outside of a dog, a books is a man's best friend; and inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx

I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it.

You're never too old to become younger.
-- Mae West

Painting (n.): The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
-- Ambrose Beirce

Mother told me to be good, but she's been wrong before.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Save energy: be apathetic

Goldenstern's Rules:
1. Always hire a rich attorney
2. Never buy from a rich salesman

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

The more things change, the more they stay insane.

For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.'
-- John Greenly Whitten

He who neglects an opportunity must not complain afterwards.
-- Chinese Proverb

One cannot consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
-- Helen Keller

Make other people like themselves a little better and rest assured they'll like you very much.

What lies in front of us and what lies behind us are nothing compared to what lies within us.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me, And just be my friend.
-- Albert Camus

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Everyone smiles in the same language.

Not preparing is preparing to fail.

God made the idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
-- Mark Twain

A man with one watch always knows what time it is... A man with two watches is never sure.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
-- Eduardo Galeano

Good Day
-- Paul Harvey

Can't rain all the time.
-- The Crow

The fly likes to fly, cuz it don't like to stay.
-- PUSA

80% of life is showing up.

Macs SUCK!
-- Lee Vormbrock

I came here to chew gum and kick some ass... and I'm all out of gum.
-- They Live

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
-- Hegel

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
-- Oscar Wilde

"True Joy in Possession"
To have a thing is little
If you're not allowed to show it.
And to know a thing is nothing,
unless others know you know it.
-- Lord Neaves

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike superiority and impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
-- John Wooden

A man begins buttin his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
-- Herb Caen

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-- Felix Cohen

Show me a throughly satisfied man -- and I will show you a failure.
-- Thomas Alva Edison

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before the lesson.
-- Vernon Law

All cruelty springs from weakness.
-- Seneca

The majority of us are for free speech only when it deals with those subjects concerning which we have no intense convictions.
-- Edmund B. Chaffee

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.
-- Lawrence J. Peter

Impiety: your irreverence toward my deity.
-- Ambrose Beirce

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
-- Chief Justice Earl Warren

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
-- George Bernard Shaw

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
-- Nicolas Chamfort

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one has not time to write down.
-- Hector Berlioz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy sunday afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz

When asked by an anthropologisy what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'ours.'
-- Vine Deloria, Jr.

'Be yourself' is the worst advice you can give to some people.

-- Tom Masson

Segregation is the offspring of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immortality.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
-- Lillian Hellman

Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.
-- Herbert V. Prochnow

In Paris, they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
-- Mark Twain

Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Clopton's Law -- for every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.
-- Richard Clopton

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
-- Bob Edwards

Life is easier to take than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
-- Kathleen Norris

He has every attribute of a dog except loyalty.
-- Senator Thomas P. Gore

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand, as playing a poor hand well.
-- H. T. Leslie

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Samuel Butler

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-- Antione de Saint Exupery

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
-- David Russell

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
-- John Ruskin

Nature gave man two ends -- one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
-- H. L. Mencken

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
-- James M. Barrie

Money often costs too much.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket, and rejoices that the system works.
-- Bill Vaughan

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
-- Stanley J. Randall

It is progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?
-- Stanislaw J. Lec

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh -- at yourself.
-- Ethel Barrymore

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein

A man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
-- Muhammad Ali

I couldn't wait for success -- so I went ahead without it.
-- Jonathan Winters

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
-- Eden Phillpots

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.
-- Charles Dickens

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depends on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Success is a journey, not a destination.
-- Ben Sweetland

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
-- Gilbert Highet

A heart of peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
-- Proverbs 14:30

If I get a little money, I buy books and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
-- Desiderius Erasmus

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The foolish and the dead along never change their opinions.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
-- Jonas Salk

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
-- Thomas Edison

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
-- Harry S. Truman

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
-- Madame Curie

Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.
-- Henry Ford

Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.

To his dog, every man is a Napolean, hence the constant popularity of dogs.
-- Aldous Huxley

Politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
-- Charles de Gaulle

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality, and intelligence go with them.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Employ thy time well if thy meanest to gain leisure.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
-- John F. Kennedy

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

It is the quality of our work which will please God, and not the quantity.
-- Mahatma Ghandi

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other.
-- Liciano De Crescenzo

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committe people can change the world -- indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-- Douglas Adams

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remakrable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
-- Walter Anderson

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.
-- Australian Aboriginal Elder

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-- Walter Bagehot

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.
-- Ben Bova

We find comfort among those who agree with us -- growth among those who don't.
-- Frank A. Clark

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
-- R. A. Dickson

If you can dream it, you can do it.
-- Walt Disney

Never judge a book by it's movie.
-- J. W. Eagan

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.
-- Abba Eban

He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun.
-- Steady Eddy

The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and Stupidity.
-- Harlan Ellison

History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
-- Henry Ford

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Live as you will have wished to have l ived when you are dieing.
-- Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
-- Andre Gide

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
-- Samuel Goldwyn

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
-- Robert Heilein

Technological progress has merely provided us with efficient means for going backwards.
-- Aldous Huxley

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
-- Aldous Huxley

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum to get over it.
-- Peter de Jager

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
-- Fletcher Knebel

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
-- Akira Kurosawa

Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
-- Doug Larson

Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
-- John Lennon

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up save in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
-- C. S. Lewis

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
-- Charlie McCarthy

Military Intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
-- Groucho Marx

Murphy's Law: If there are 2 or more ways to do something, and one of those can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
-- Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
-- Charles Osgood

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
-- Charles Steinmertz

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
-- Han Suyin

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
-- James Thurber

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
-- James Thurber

I really wonder what gives up the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

Resistance is useless.
-- Doctor Who

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
-- Wittgenstein

Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.
-- Doctor Who

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?
-- Steven Wright

Obscenity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers.

The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word fuck.

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult or our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but perparation.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes

No three words have greater power than 'I Love You'.

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
-- Aristotle

Let no one who loves be unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
-- James Matthew Barrie

Love is a rare opportunity and when that love is somehow parted it's something deep down inside that wants just a reminder, a slice of memory, a possession.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
-- Victor Hugo

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
-- John Lennon

Where there is love there is life.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
-- Santo Teresa de Jesus

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde

Love, you are eternal like springtime.
-- Juan Rammon Jiminez

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?
-- George Elliott

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
-- Lope de Vega

Without love, the world itself would not survive.
-- Lope de Vega

Pains of love be sweeter far
Than all other pleasures are.
-- Jon Dryden

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
-- Lord Byron, The Giaour, 1813

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never aparty, maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert Heinlein

I could do without many things with no hardhip -- you are not one of them.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
-- Muhammad Ali

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something evern more bozarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-- Douglas Adams

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!), but 'That's funny...'
-- Isaac Asimov

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive it isn't.
-- Richard Bach

War is like love; it always finds a way.
-- Bertolt Brecht

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
-- John Cleese

There are two types of people -- those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!', and those who come in and say 'Ah, there you are.'
-- Frederick L. Collins

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
-- Frank Crane

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believe in it.
-- Phillip K. Dick

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
-- Havelock Ellis

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
-- Hagar the Horrible

Catch 22
-- Joseph Heller

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
-- Snoopy

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you have robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Education is what you get from readin the fine print. Experience is what you get from not readin it.

Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder 'What happened?'

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
-- Mark Twain

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
-- Mark A. Overby

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
-- Charles Schulz

While hunting in Africa, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know.
-- Groucho Marx

I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'
-- Margo Kaufman

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
-- Andy Rooney

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to 50 words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
-- Carl Sagan

...adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
-- Dr. Suess

It is generally agreed that 'Hello' is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said 'Goodbye', it could confuse a lot of people.
-- Dolph Sharp

Life is too important to take seriously.
-- Corky Siegel

I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to.
-- Yakov Smirnoff

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
-- William Stekel

Take your work seriously, but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
-- Booth Tarkington

There's no sense in being precise when you don't know what you're talking about.
-- John von Neumann

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
-- Joe Walsh

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.
-- Bert Whitney

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
-- Rebecca West

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
-- William Clinton

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
-- Alexander Smith

If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
-- Leo Rosten

If it weren't for women, me would still be wearing last weeks socks.
-- Cynthia Nelms

Always be nice to your child because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
-- Phyllis Diller

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
-- Agatha Christie

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
-- Amy Heckerling

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
-- Fran Lebowitz

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
-- Katharine Hepburn

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
-- Madame Swetchine

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
-- Caskie Stinnet

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
-- Lester J. Pourciau

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
-- Victor Borge

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
-- Frank Zappa

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

If computer get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
-- Bradley's Bromide

Unless you can love as the angles may,
With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Through behoving and unbehoving;
Unless you can die when the dream is past --
Oh! Never call it loving!
-- Robert Browning

For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.
-- Psalms 91:11

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
-- Hebrews 13:2

I will not wish thee riches, nor the glow of greatness,
but that wherever thou go
some weary heart shall gladden at they smile,
or shadowed life know sunshine for a while.
And so thy path shall be a track of light,
like angels' footsteps passing through the night.
-- English Church wall

With silence only as their benediction
God's angels come
Where, in the shadow of a great affliction
The soul sits dumb.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier

Around our pillows, golden ladders rise,
And up and down the skies,
With winged sandals shod,
The angels come and go, the messengers of God.
-- R. H. Stoddard

The very presence of an angel is a communication. Even when an angel crosses our path in silence, God has said to us, 'I am here. I am present in your life.'
-- Tobias Palmer

Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
-- St. Francis DeSales

Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve?
-- Hebrews 1:14

The angles... regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befalls us.
-- John Calvin

How many angels are there? One -- who transforms our life -- is plenty.
-- Traditional Saying

Angel of God, my guardian dear
To whom God's love commits me here;
Ever this day be at my side,
To light and guard, to rule and guide.
-- Catholic Prayer

But all God's angels come to us disguised.
-- James Russell Lowell

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be byond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
-- Jean Paul Richter

See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way...
-- Exodus 23:20

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them.
-- Psalms 34:7

A guardian angel o'er his life presiding,
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
-- Samuel Rogers

Farewell! I did not know they worth,
But thou art gone, and now 'tis prized,
So angels walked unknown on earth,
But when they flew are recognized.
-- Thomas Hood

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
-- Alexander Pope

God will send his angels to keep you from harm.
-- Matthew 4:6

Today, well lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness, and tomorrow a vision of hope.

Love and friendship are the greatest things in life.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
-- Earl Wilson

Study nature as the countenance of God.
-- Kingsley

Don't hurry, don't worry, and don't forget to smell the flowers.
-- T. Rice

Since time began today has been the friend of man.

All men are created equal;
... they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Today gives us a chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
-- Henry Van Dyke

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare.
-- Emerson

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like the dew on the tip of a leaf.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

Not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
-- Goethe

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
-- Helen Keller

Good old days start with good new days like today.

Living like there's no tomorrow means loving all you can today.

I am not afraid of tomorrow. I have seen yesterday and I love today!

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-- Keats

The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise.

Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway.

This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
-- Emerson

We cannot buy time, it is a gift from God.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
-- Len Wein

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

Intelligence is like underwear, everyone has it, but you don't have to show it off.

The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
-- Dale Carnegie

Judge a man not by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
-- Thomas Robert Dewar

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
-- Balzac

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
-- Cyril Connolly

Most of these love triangles are wrecktangles.

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer

The heart that loves is always young.
-- Greek Proverb

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
-- Barbara Pym

Younger men are more supportive and a lot less demanding, and they also have more time for their relationships.
-- Cher

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

Age doesn't protect you from love. But love, to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanna Moreau

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?
-- Jean Kerr

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
-- Leo Tolstoy

Were beauty under 20 locks kept fast, Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.
-- Shakespeare

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
-- Katharine Hepburn

Doubt thou the stars are fire!
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
-- Shakespeare

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks of it, but few have seen it.
-- La Rochefoucauld

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
-- Bourdillon

Sing, for faith and hope are high - None so true as you and I - Sing the Lover's Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"
-- Kipling

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Franklin

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Johnson

In the opinion of the world marriage ends all, as it does in all comedy. The truth is precisely the reverse; it begins all.
-- Anne Swetchine

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children, and those who marry early with their partners.
-- Johnson

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
-- Ovid

The Avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
-- Kosh (Babylon 5)

There was only one catch and that was Catch 22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and so soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
-- Joseph Heller, Catch 22

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
-- Joseph Heller, Catch 22

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
-- Doug Larson

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
-- Victor Hugo

Even in the presense of others he was completely alone.
-- Robert M. Pirsig

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.
-- Gene Brown

Cats are smarter than dogs. You cannot get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
-- Jeff Valdez

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
-- Victor Hugo

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
-- Jeff Marder

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
-- Shunryu Suzuki

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.
-- Bruno Jasienski

I'm the one that has to die when its time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
-- Jimi Hendrix

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
-- Albert Einstein

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
-- Slovenian Proverb

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa

If it weren't for the last minute nothing would get done.

What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Friederich Nietzsche

There cannot be a crisis next. My schedule is already full.
-- Henry Kissinger

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
-- Bernadette Devlin

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
-- Mary Ellen Kelly

If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
-- Larry Leissner

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
-- Robert Orben

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
-- Jerry Chin

Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.
-- G. Weilacher

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
-- African proverb

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
-- Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Better a diamond with a flaw then a pebble without.
-- Confucious

No man is an Island, entire or itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a manor of they friends or thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
-- John Donne

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
-- Albert Camus

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

If you talk the talk, you damn well better walk the walk.
-- Anthony D'Angelo

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
-- Thoreau

You call it madness, but I call it love.
-- Don Byas

I have seen soldiers panic at the first site of battle, and a wounded squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one's action.
-- Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

Honor gives little comfort to a man alone in his home, or in his heart.
-- Martok, Deep Space Nine

How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterwards.
-- Spanish Proverb

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
-- Houssage

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
-- John Lennon

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, re-made all the time, made new.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin

If I know what love is, it is because of you.
-- Herman Hesse

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so love. If we're in each others dreams; we can be together all the time.
-- Hobbes

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lau Tzu

As I look out at the majestic sea,
I know you and I were meant to be.
I only wish I could make you see,
How much your love means to me.
I wish I could walk up to you
And speak the words that lovers do.
But now I sit here sad and blue
Wishing I could be with you.
-- Wishes of a Lover

A Law of Computer Programming:
Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.

There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine:
This living, this living, this living, Was never a progject of mine.
Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top,
For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop,
And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell,
So I'm thinking of throwing the battle -- Would you kindly direct me to hell?
-- Dorothy Parker

Ask not for whom the telephone bell tolls... if thou art in the bathtub it tolls for thee.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

The ideas I stand for are not mine.
I borrowed them from Socrates.
I swiped them from Chesterfield.
I stole them from Jesus.
If you don't like their rules,
Whose would you use?
-- Dale Carnegie

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
-- Confucious

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than its value.
-- Charles Dudley Warner

We forfeit 3/4 of ourselves to be like other people.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
-- Jules de Gaultier

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
-- G. H. Hardy

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
-- Janet Long

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage

The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- Henry Louis Mencken

As perfume doth remain
In the folds where it hath lain,
So the thought of you, remaining
Deeply folded in my brain,
Will not leave me: all things leave me:
You remain.
-- Arthur Symons

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
-- Aphra Behn

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein

I don't make you feel special, I just remind you that you are special.
-- David F. Sims

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- W. B. Yeats

I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
-- Forrest Gump

If a thing loves, it is infinite.
-- William Blake

If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket.
-- Matthew White

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
-- Thomas Mann

Marriage is not living with the person you love, but living with the person you can't live without.
-- Aissa Amor A. Sarmiento

To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Les Miserables

War can't kill love, Love can kill war.
-- Helene Lagerberg

And I'd give up forever to touch you,
'Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now
And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
'Cause sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight.
-- Goo Goo Dolls "Iris"

Through this toilsome world, alas!
Once and only once I pass;
If a kindness I may show,
If a good deed I may do
To a suffering fellow man,
Let me do it while I can.
No delay, for it is plain
I shall not pass this way again.

The thing that is opened most often by mistake; is the mouth.

The Time for Kindness Is Now
Friends, in this world of hurry
And work and sudden end
If a thought comes quick of doing
A kindness to a friend
Do it this very instant!
Don't put it off -- don't wait;
What's the use of doing a kindess
If you do it a day too late?

He who has a million friends has not one to spare. He who has an enemy meets him everywhere.

One of the best ways to lose a friends is to tell him something for his own good.

A smile is the light on the window of a face which shows that the heart is at home.

No man's opinion is entirely worthless -- Even a watch that doesn't run is right twice a day.

Don't expect your ship to come in if you haven't sent one out to sea.

The chap who says, "what's the use?" is never the engine; he's always the caboose.

Few of us can stand prosperity -- another man's that is!

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
-- Mordecai Seigal

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
-- Will Rogers

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
-- Rose Macaulay

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
-- Jerome K. Jerome

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
-- Al Capone

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
-- Albert Camus

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
-- Thomas Fuller

For in that sleep of death
What dreams may come
When we have shuffled
Off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
-- Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
-- Joseph Joubert

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
-- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

Enjoy all the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

There is the difference between and happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-- Colton

Truth is the safest lie.
-- Jewish Proverb

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings

To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only pla, but also believe.
-- Anatole France

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Failure is the only opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
-- Henry Ford

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
-- James Dean

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
-- Marcel Marceau

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
-- Rabbi Hillel

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-- The Buddha

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
-- Stephen Levine

Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart isi grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true.
-- Disney's Cinderella "A Dream Is A Wish.."

In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer.
-- Norwegian Proverb

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
-- Ursula K Le Guin

When I grow up I want to be a lititle boy.
-- Joseph Heller

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
-- Phyllis McGinley

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to be where he was.
-- R. L. Evans

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
-- Billie Burke

God will only give you as much as you can handle.
-- Anonymous

The true and noble way to kill a foe, Is not to kill him, -- you with kindness, may so change him, that he shall cease to be so, And then he's slain.
-- Alain

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. you can only decided how you're going to live. Now.
-- Joan Baez

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
-- Frank Tyger

What is to giive light must endure burning.
--Viktor Frankl

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
-- Philip Larkin

We have just religion enough to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
-- Jonathan Swift

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
-- Marianne Moore

Man walks the moon but his soul remains rivited to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
-- Elie Wiesel

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills

Never seem wiser, nor more learned than the people you are with.
-- Lord Chesterfield

He who angers you conquers you.
-- Elizabeth Kenny

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
-- D. H. Lawrence

... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
-- May Sarton

Looking back, I have this regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
-- David Grayson

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
-- Leo Rosten

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

We can only learn to love by loving.
-- Iris Murdoch

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
-- Bob Dylan

There are no short cuts to any place worth going.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
-- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.
-- Gina Shapira

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
-- Reverend Jesse Jackson

Be mysterious
-- John Bouvier's advice to his daughter, Jacqueline

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
-- Katherine Whitehorn

He who is devoid of the power to forgive isi devoid of the power to love.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Look for the good in everything and you will find it.

Man can never be happy if he does not nourish his soul as he does his body.
-- The Rebbe

The greatest weakness of most humans isi their hesistancy to tell others how much they love them whil they're still alive.
-- O. A. Battista

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
-- Jean Paul Richter

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
-- Chinese proverb

Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.
-- Kathryn Carpenter

No good deed goes unpunished.
-- Clare Boothe Luce

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara

Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art.
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
-- Suzanne Nichols

Love is a great beautifier.
-- Louisa May Alcott

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
-- Queen Victoria

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
-- Willa Cather

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
-- Sir Thomas Browne

It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter.
-- Marlene Dietrich

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
-- Rollo May

Think of what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world -- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic, policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick together.
-- Robert Fulghum, All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned In Kindergarten

Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious
-- from Mary Poppins

Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain

Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neckout.
-- James Bryant Conant

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
-- Charles de Gaulle

Work like you don't need the money.
Dance like no one is watching.
And love like you've never been hurt.
-- Mark Twain

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
-- John Lubbock

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
-- Dr. Suess

To do is to be. -- Aristotle
To be is to do. -- Plato
Do be do be do. -- Frank Sinatra

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
-- Chuang-tzu

Love, then, hath every bliss in store;
'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live.
-- Gay

There is good beauty in going thought life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
-- Bovee

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
-- Bacon

No labour bestowed upon a worthless thing can be productive of fruit; even by a hundred efforts a crane cannot be made to talk like a parrot.
-- The Hitopadesa

Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.
-- Somerset Maughan

Never a tear dims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
-- Bret Harte

There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
-- Montaigne

First our pleasures die - and then
Our hopes, and then our fears - and when
These are dead, the debt is due,
Dust claims dust - and we die too.
-- Shelley

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
-- Henry Miller

O! Many a shaft at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
-- Walter Scott

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
-- John Ray

To-morrow I will live, the fool does say: to-day itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.
-- Martial

It is a truth universally, acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-- Jane Austen

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
--Minna Antrim

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
-- Anita Loos

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
-- Betty Friedan

Some like me, others don't. That's the way it is.
-- Pope John Paul II

I explained it to St. Peter,
I'd rather stay here
Outside the pearly gate.
I won't be a nuisance,
I won't even bark,
I'll be very patient and wait,
I'll be here, chewing on a celestial bone,
No matter how long you may be.
I'd miss you so much, if I went in alone,
It wouldn't be heaven for me.
--Anonymous

One reason a dog is such a comfort
When you are downcast
Is that he doesn't ask to know why.
--Anonymous

A dog can express more with his tail in minutes, than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.
--Anonymous

When a dog wags his tail and barks at the same time, how do you know which end to believe?
--Anonymous

A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him.
--Anonymous

Every dog isn't a growler, and every growler isn't a dog.
--Anonymous

A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but everyone prefers his bark.
--Anonymous

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices.
-- Lord Byron, epitaph to his Newfoundland dog, Boatswain

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
-- Eric Hoffer

Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
-- Goethe

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
-- Hare & Charles

The Soul is born old, but it grows young; that is the comedy of life.
The Body is born young and grows old; that is life's tragedy.
-- Oscar Wilde

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
-- Plutarch

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.
-- Pliny the Elder

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
-- William Shakespeare

Which does one love more, fame or one's own life?
Which is more valuable, one's own life or wealth?
Which is worse, gain or loss?
Therefore
He who has lavish desires will spend extravagently.
He who hoards most will lose heavily.
He who is contented suffers no disgrace.
He who knows when to stop is free from danger.
Therefore he can long endure.
-- Lao-Tzu

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Kierkegaard

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
-- Johnson

If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
-- Irving Layton

In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
-- Baba Dioum

The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.
-- William Beebe, 1906

Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

No heaven can heaven be, if my dog's not there to welcome me.

Whoever said you can't buy happiness, forgot about puppies.
-- Gene Hill

Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
-- Anne Tyler

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
-- Ann Landers

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
-- Ben Williams

Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
-- Sue Murphy

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
-- Derke Bruce

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
-- Christopher Morley

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
-- Andy Rooney

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-- Mark Twain

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
-- John Steinbeck

You think there will not be dogs in heaven? I tell you they will be there before any of us.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
-- Alexander Pope

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
-- John Ruskin

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
-- Robert Cringely (Info World)

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
-- J. J. Fumas

If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
-- Tallula Bankhead

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
-- Clarence Darrow

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
-- W. H. Auden

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Connors. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.
-- Judith Viorst

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

Friends will keep you sane,
Love could fill your heart,
A lover can warm your bed,
But lonely is the soul without a mate.
-- David Pratt

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
-- Joel Rosenberg

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach

Without music life would be a mistake.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
-- Don Marquis

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
-- Marilyn Monroe

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
-- Margaret Thatcher

For most of history. Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.
-- Frank Tyger

The secret of happines is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
-- James M. Barrie

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
-- Sean Connery

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And this is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare, "Macbeth"

Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.
-- Peter David

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
-- William Ralph Inge

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
-- Martin Luther

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.
-- Arther Bloch

I would prefer as a friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
-- Euripides

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
-- Elizabeth Bowen

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
-- William Feather

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
-- Erica Jong

To be adult is to be alone.
-- Jean Rostand

You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
-- Erica Jong

Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.
-- Heywood Broun

Poverty is the mother of crime.
-- Marcus Aurelius

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
-- David Lloyd George

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.
-- Irish Proverb

There is no need like the lack of a friend.
-- Irish Proverb

If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
-- Jeanne-Marie Roland

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
-- Mark Twain

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
-- Warner von Braun

All I know of love is that love is all there is.
-- Emily Dickinson

If I could catch a Rainbow, I would do it just for you.
And share with you it's Beauty on days you're feeling Blue.
If I could build a Mountain you could call your very own
A place to find Serentiy, a place to be alone, I'd do it just for you.
If I could take your Troubles, I would toss them in the Sea.
But all these things I'm finding are Impossible for me.
I cannot build a Mountain or catch a Rainbow fair.
But let me be what I know best, A Friend that's always there.

The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'
-- Robert Quillen

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
-- Janos Arany

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
-- Erich Fromm

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
-- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
-- Richard Bach

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
-- Charles Darwin

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to laugh about your problems than to cry about them.
-- Jewish Proverb

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, 'making it', or success.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers

My love does not, cannot make her happy. My love can only release in her the capacity to be happy.
-- J. Barnes

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
-- Hasidic saying

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.
-- Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand

The most beautiful thing we can experiences is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
-- Albert Einstein

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
-- Khalil Gibran

The great please of a dog is that you can make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, he will make a fool of himself.
-- Samuel Butler

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be seperated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
-- Gildor Inglorion from J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Don't say I love you unless you mean it. But if you mean it say it often. People forget.

Love is a decision to live in a universe which is good, even when there is no proof to validate it.
-- Barry Tellman

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
-- George Washington Carver

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
-- Doug Larson

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
-- H. L. Mencken

To cheat one's self out of love is the greatest deception of which there is no reparation in either time or eternity.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

Do no rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
-- Agnes Campbell MacPhail

A relationship is what happens between two people who are waiting for something better to come along.
-- Anonymous

It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
-- Marcel Proust

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
-- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
-- Booker T. Washington

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly.
-- Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
-- Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucauld

To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.
-- Petrarch

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
-- John Donne

Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
-- Laurence Sterne

Skating on thin ice is better than skating on no ice at all.
-- John M. Shanahan

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
-- Mark Twain

Men can acquire knowledge but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.
-- Spanish proverb

'Why not' is a slogan for an interesting life.
-- Mason Cooley

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
-- Maya Angelou

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
-- Oscar Wilde

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
-- George Smith Patton

Children are living messages we send to a time we will not see.
-- Neil Postman

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
-- William McFee

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-- Edith Wharton

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget.
-- Thomas Szasz

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
-- William H. Walton

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Judge not, that ye be not judged.
-- Matthew 7:1

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
-- Harriet Uts Nelson

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
-- John MacNaughton

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-- Philo

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
-- George E. Woodberry

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