Favorite Quotes
Submitted by bookwormcat on Fri, 04/07/2006 - 10:36
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- Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
- If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing. ~Will Rogers
- Three may keep a secret - if two of them be dead. ~Benjamin Franklin
- Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. ~Jodie Foster
- I get the girl. I get the cash. I come up a winner any way you look at it. ~Gina Gershon on "Bound"
- A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum . . . When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold. ~Henry Miller
- A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have anything better to do. ~Bill Adler
- Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Stress is waking up with a warm, furry body next to you, and you don't own a pet.
- Inside every older lady is a younger lady -- wondering what the hell happened. ~Cora Harvey Armstrong
- The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
- When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. ~Elayne Boosler
- In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. ~Margaret Thatcher
- I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house. ~Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~Helen Keller
- I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx
- Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
- We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. ~William Somerset Maugham
- Anybody can rat, but it takes a lot of inguinuity to re-rat.
- No one other than ourselves know what can truly make us happy.
- A true friend never gets in your way--unless you are on your way down.
- Don't dwell on what you have done wrong. Dwell on what you have done right. ~Joel Osteen
- The thing you fear is running your life.
- Empty promisses will cause confusion
- Life is only frun when you are risking it.
- One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. ~ John W. Gardner ~
- Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head." ~ Paul Auster ~
- Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash. ~ Rita Mae Brown ~
- About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -- Herbert Hoover
- Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~ Dorothy Bernard ~
- When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. ~ John Ruskin ~
- Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day. ~ Mario Andretti ~
- Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus ~
- I shut my eyes in order to see. ~ Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) ~
- FOR ONE HUMAN BEING TO LOVE ANOTHER; THAT IS PERHAPS THE MOST DIFFICULT OF ALL OUR TASKS...THE WORK FOR WHICH ALL OTHER WORK IS BUT PREPARATION. - RAINER MARIA RILKE
- "Men are always whinning about how we are suffocating them. Personally, I think if you can hear them whinning, you are not pressing hard enough on the pillow."
- Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ~ John Wooden
- If I wanted to hear the pitter patter of little feet, I'd put shoes on my cat.
- If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. ~ John Irving ~
- The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
- Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance. --A.E. Newton
- Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)
- "My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it." - Katherine Moennig
- The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
- Recieve your lessons greatefully so you won't have to repeat them.
- Always forgive your enemies - Nothing annoys them so much.
- If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
- Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
- Death is hereditary.
- There are three sides to any argument: your side, my side and the right side.
- When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.
- Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
- They say hard work never hurts anybody, but why take the chance.
Great selections!