It was only a matter of time....
THE QUOTES
1. You never lose by loving; you always lose by holding back.
2. "The things that come to those who wait may be the things left by those who got there first." --author unknown
3. Talk is cheap and silence is golden.
4. "A new broom sweeps the floor, but an old broom knows the corners." --Irish Proverb
5. When you smile, you free yourself.
6. "To laugh as 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, where by a healthy child, a garden patch, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." --Emerson
7. Advice from father to son: "Son, never try to understand a woman's mind, it'll drive you daft. And never anger her when there's something in reach, that when thrown at your head, could cause serious damage."--Unknown
8. "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." --Henry Ford
9. Always hang onto your dreams no matter what others say because those who shoot down others' dreams have no dreams of their own.
10. "Don't worry about the world ending today, it's already tomorrow in Australia." --Charles Schulz
11. Happy people are bumblebees that awaken the flowers of friends with the pollen of joy!
12. "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." --Harlan Ellison
13. Never allow success to go to your head and never let failure go to your heart.
14. "The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory." --Old Chinese Proverb
15. You may experience hardships and troubles in you life, but never let those hardships and troubles take over your life. Always remember-you control those troubles, they don't control you.
16. "There is love of course. And then there is life, it's enemy." --Jean Anouilh
17. Everything happens for a reason. Believe in the reason and it will believe in you.
18. "Judge your socks by color and your friends by character because judging your socks by character makes no sense whatsoever and judging your friends by color is completely unthinkable." --unknown
19. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.
20. "...No man is an island, entirely of itself..." --John Donne (Meditation 17)
21. Don't be irreplaceable; if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
22. "Never let your successes go to your head and never let your failures go to your heart." --Will Smith
23. No matter what's happening in your life, don't ever change for anyone. Do good things for yourself, not anyone else. Even when you feel totally lost, without hope and you're ready to give up, just believe in yourself and trust in God and with your strength and trust in Him you can overcome anything the world puts in your path. From one understanding teen to another, who's experienced some of the hard parts of life, just remember you're not alone. Never give up.
24. "Love is God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive it; you will begin to comprehend it better everyday. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."--Fyoder Dostoyevsky
25. "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
26. Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you want, but you can only spend it once.
27. "Never compromise yourself. You're all you've got." Janis Joplin
28. "And this above all: To thine own self be true." Shakespeare's Hamlet
29. "An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind." Ghandi
30. "In the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty." Louisa May Alcott
31. "Definition of status: Buying things you don't need with money you don't have to impress people you don't like." Dr. Eugene Swearingen
32. "To win 100 victories in 100 battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill." Sun Tzu
33. "The angry man/woman will defeat themselves in battle as well as in life." Samurai saying
34. "Rather be a first rate version of yourself than a second rate version of someone else." Judy Garland
35. "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." Andy Dufrane from the Shawshank Redemption
36. "Illegitimis non carborundum." Latin: "Don't let the bastards get you down."
37. "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." W. M. Lewis
38. "Love does not begin and end the way we think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." James Baldwin
39. "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation." Moliere
40. "Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders." Oscar W. Firkins
41. "No legacy is so rich as honesty." William Shakespeare
42. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein
43. "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask 'Why not?'" George Bernard Shaw
44. "I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel." Peter Nivio Zarlenga
45. "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." John Fitzgerald Kennedy
46. "To err is human, to forgive, divine." Alexander Pope
47. "What power has love but forgiveness? In other words, by its intervention, what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?" William Carlos Williams
48. "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." Napoleon
49. "Look at everything as though you were seeing it as the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory." Betty Smith
50. "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." Scottish proverb
51. "To live a pure, unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." Buddha
52. "The best way to try to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up." Mark Twain
53. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; some whenever they go." Oscar Wilde
54. "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." Victor Borge
55. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." George Bernard Shaw
56. "The human race has one really effective weapon and that is laughter." Mark Twain
57. "Music is well said to be the speech of angels." Thomas Carlyle
58. "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems." Arthur O'Shaunessey
59. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
60. "The Lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him." Lamentations 3:25
61. "There is no way to peace, peace is the way." A.J. Muste
62. "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable conformation." Nelson Mandela
63. "A poet is someone who is astonished by everything." Anonymous
64. "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." Charles Simic
65. "When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover that they aren't it." Bernard Bailey
66. "Never look down on anyone unless you are helping them up." Jesse Jackson
67. "Forget regret, or life is yours to miss." Jonathan Larson
68. "Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions." David Borenstein
69. "The Lord is my light, my salvation. Whom shall I fear?" Psalm 27
70. "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion and it is the spirit." Kahlil Gibran
71. "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein
72. "The soul that is within me, no man can degrade." Frederick Douglas
73. "Where talent is a dwarf, self-respect is a giant." J. Petit-Senn
74. "Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best." Henry van Dyke
75. "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." Buddha
76. "When all men think alike, no one thinks very much." Walter Lippman
77. "Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself." Plato
78. "One thing you can't recycle is wasted time." Anonymous
79. "Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you." "Cheers"
80. "The object of superior man is truth." Confucius
81. "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." Henry David Thoreau
82. "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." Mark Twain
83. "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and is never simple." Oscar Wilde
84. "We never know the worth of water 'til the well runs dry." English proverb
85. "Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted." Chinese proverb
86. "You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note." Doug Floyd
87. "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." Theodore Roosevelt
88. "War does not determine who is right - only who is left." Bertrand Russell
89. "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." Anonymous
90. "Real riches are the riches possessed inside." B. C. Forbes
91. "Wisdom begins in wonder." Socrates
92. "The only true wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing." Socrates
93. "Every exit is an entry somewhere." Tom Stoppard
94. "You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." Ziggy
95. "Bluntness is a virtue." Allison Ling
96. "It's good to shut up sometimes." Marcel Marceau
97. "Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." Tupac Shakur
98. "Dreams are the touchstones of our future." Henry David Thoreau
99. "I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a
dream today!" Martin Luther King, Jr.
100. "If you want beautiful music, you must play the black and white notes together." Richard Nixon
101. "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves." William Shakespeare
102. "When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize that my friends are my energy." Anonymous
103. "Friends are treasures." Horace Bruns
104. "True friends stab you in the front." Oscar Wilde
105. "Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals." Agnes Repplier
106. "If you have a lemon, make lemonade." Howard Gossage
107. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow." Anonymous
108. "Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead." Anonymous
109. "Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up." Anonymous
110. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." Robert Frost
111. "Live your life as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Ghandi
112. "May you live every day of your life." Jonathan Swift
113. "Ama me fideliter! Fidem meam noto: De cord totaliter et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter absens in remota." Latin - "Love me faithfully! See how I am faithful: With all my heart and all my soul, I am with you though I am far away." Anonymous
114. "Love builds bridges where there are none." R. H. Delaney
115. "Where there is love, there is life." Ghandi
116. "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." Judy Garland
117. "Do all things with love." Og Mandino
118. "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." Mother Theresa
119. "Nunc scio quit sit amor." Latin - "Now I know what love is." Virgil
120. "Smile, sweetie, it'll all be okay someday."
121. "No matter how rough it gets, remember, someone out there will still love you, someone out there will still need you."
122. "You can't expect the whole world to love you, so embrace and appreciate the ones who do."
123. "Everything happens for a reason."
124. "Don't take anything for granted. You don't know what you've got until it's gone."
125. "Always keep your chin up and your eyes bright, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile."
126. "Life will never be so bad that you can't go on living. There are good days and there are bad days and the bad times, no matter how hard they seem, are the times when we learn and grow. A day is only a day. There will always be another chance tomorrow for a better life."
127. "Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things."
128. "One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor."
129. "Atheism is a non-prophet organization."
130. "Amor non tenet ordinem." Latin - "Love has nothing to do with order." St. Columba
131. "If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious when you open your heart."
132. Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
133. Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you
134. If love isn't a game, why are there so many players?
135. Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
136. You can only go as far as you push.
137. Actions speak louder than words.
138. The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
139. Don't let the past hold you back, you're missing the good stuff.
140. Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it.
141. A BEST FRIEND is like a four-leaf clover, HARD TO FIND and LUCKY TO HAVE.
142. Some people make the world SPECIAL just by being in it.
143. BEST FRIENDS are the siblings God forgot to give us.
144. When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look
beside you and your BEST FRIEND will be there.
145. TRUE FRIENDSHIP "NEVER" ENDS.
146. Friends are FOREVER.
147. Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they
are always there.
148. What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the
person who made you cry?
149. Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
150. Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
151. Most people walk in and out of you life, but only friends leave footprints in
your heart.
152. May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
The rain falls soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the Palm of His hand. -An Irish blessing for journey
153. You know he is the one, when you're kicking yourself for letting him get away.
154. If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. -Jonathan Winters
155. Men cheat for the same reason dogs lick their balls-because they can.
156. Soul mates: reality or torture device?
157. Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
158. Sex is one of the 9 reasons for reincarnation. The other 8 are unimportant.
159. The magic of first love is our ignorance that it will never end.
160. Not only is life a bitch, but it keeps having puppies.
161. Even if the voices aren't real, they have some good ideas.
162. A woman is like a teabag; you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
163. I drink to make other people interesting.
164. Your friend is the person who knows all about you and still likes you.
165. Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who couldn't hear the music.
166. Sanity is a cozy lie.
167. "You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a fine spirit of hope or achievement. You are here to enrich and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." -Woodrow Wilson
168. Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. -Robert Orben
169. Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the right way, that is not easy. -Aristotle
170. Trouble is a part of your life and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore
171. If you want something you've never had before, you've got to do something you've never done before. -Drina Reed
172. Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision? -Marilyn Monroe
173. Why can't we just get together all the people in the world that we really like? And then stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. And then we'd have to say goodbye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. -Snoopy
174. If I know what love is, it's because of you. -Herman Hesse
175. Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
176. I'm the girl that guys are friends with, not the girl guys date. -Joey from "Dawson's Creek"
177. Guys are like parking spaces; they're all either taken up or handicapped. And the second you finally find one, you see a better one across the lot.
178. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. -Garth Brooks
179. True love is when you're still dancing long after the music has stopped.
180. There are only 2 types of women: goddesses and doormats. -Pablo Picasso
181. A kiss can be a comma, question mark, or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
182. Bad times wake us up to the good times we weren't paying attention to. -"Good Will Hunting"
183. After you left and said your good-byes, you forgot to tell my heart how to live without you.
184. You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince.
185. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right next to them, knowing you can't have them. -"Dawson's Creek"
186. Smile-it's the second best thing to do with your lips.
187. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. -"When Harry Met Sally"
188. Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized and sold of piece by piece. -Lisa Simpson
189. You are never fully dressed unless you wear a smile. -"Annie"
190. Joey: Sounds like you're looking for a Julia Roberts.
Dawson: What I need is a you. -"Dawson's Creek"
191. Kiss: a course of procedure, cunningly devised for the mutual stoppage of conversation when words are superfluous. -Oliver Herford
192. When I'm good, I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. -Mae West
193. Smile, it increases your face value.
194. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
195. A kiss is a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one.
196. You can't make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them. -"Dawson's Creek"
197. Don't forget to smile. It makes people wonder what you're on.
198. God gives the nuts but he does not crack them. - German Proverb
199. Live simply so others may live simply. - Ghandi
200. For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. - Isaiah 9:6
201. On with dance; let joy be unconfined, whether there's anychance to dance, or any joy to unconfined. - Mark Twain
202. Learn to write your hurts in sand, learn to write your blessings in stone!
203. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
204. If you are going through hell...keep going. - Winston Churchill
205. The man who views the world at fifty years the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Muhammed Ali
206. What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. - Yiddish Proverb
207. To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight--and never stop fighting. - e.e. cummings
208. Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people. - Mother Teresa
209. The very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our lives is toward happiness. - Dalai Lama
210. "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
211. "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley
212. "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte
213. "Even if the voices aren't real, they have some good ideas." - Anonymous
214. "Not only is life a bitch, but it keeps having puppies." - Anonymous
215. "You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." - Anonymous
216. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao-Tzu
217. "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan
218. "One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be." - Oscar Wilde
219. "The day after never is going to be a busy day" - Darkwz
220. "There is no M-E in team.. wait... hmmm" - Darkwz
221. "If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing." - Sir James Barrie
222. "Shit like an eagle" - Pantless Mexican
223. "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written." - Oscar Wilde
224. "What makes life worth living? To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad." - Searamouche
225. "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent." - Victor Hugo
226. "Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be." - Ted Rall
