Quotes

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to. -- Dave Barry

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. -- Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. -- Lillian Hellman

The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" | Hunter S. Thompson

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. | Mark Twain

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick. | Rabbi Harold Kushner

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. | Mark Twain

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language. | Henry James

"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action." | Anthony Robbins

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." | Maya Angelou

"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better." | John Updike

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. | Sally Kempton

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. | Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics'

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. | Anatole France

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. | Thomas H. Huxley

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. | Mignon McLaughlin

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life." | Frank Lloyd Wright

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. | Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. | Reggie Leach

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. | George Sewell

"Always be a first rate version of yourself, and not a second rate version of someone else." | Judy Garland

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let every on know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. | James A. Garfield

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. | Liberace

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure. | Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. | Paul Theroux, in The Washington Post

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though we’re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist. | Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2003

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. | Muriel Spark

I have seen the future and it doesn't work. - Author - Robert Fulford

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. - Author - George Moore

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. - Author - Rose Kennedy

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other." - Author - Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies. - Author - Author Unknown

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. - Author - H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line

I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. - Author - New York City detective

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. - Author - Patricia Neal

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness. - Author - Woody Allen

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - Author - Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. - Author - Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.