"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." -Mother Theresa
"If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right." -Mark Twain
"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure." -Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
"The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day." -Voltaire
"Discoveries are often made by not following instuctions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried." -Frank Tyger
"We find comfort among those who agree with us, growth among those who don't." -Frank A. Clark
"Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with man." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Always laugh at yourself first--before others do." -Elsa Maxwell
"I take a simple view of life. Keep your eyes open and get on with it." -Laurence Olivier
"A rich dog is still a dog." -my dad
"Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold." -Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." -June Masters Bacher
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." -John Ciardi
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend. -John Leonard
"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. -Charles Schultz
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -William Arthur Ward
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. -Russell Baker
"You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something. -H. Jackson Brown
"After all, tomorrow is another day." -Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind
"Nevermore!" -Quoth the raven (from The Raven, by Edger Alan Poe)
"An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply the statement of a fact. -Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
"Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Say what you have to say, not what you ought." -Henry David Thoreau
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year." -G.C. Lichtensburg
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." -Henry David Thoreau
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." -Victor Hugo
"He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still." -Samuel Butler
"Our true nationality is mankind." -Herbert George Wells
"The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool." -Rudyard Kipling
"Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits." -a Russian proverb found in Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
"If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but...deteriorate the cat." Samuel Clemens
"Definite speech means clarity of mind." -"Cecil Rhodes and the Shark," by Mark Twain
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." -Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calender, by Mark Twain
"The best things in life aren't things." -A. Buchwald
"There is niether happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with the other." -The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
"All human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and hope." -The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
"On the road of life, don't be afraid to use the shoulders." -Yours truly
"Our life is frittered away by details. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add nis ten toes, and lump the rest." -Henry David Thoreau
"I'll be a lot more likely to call on you if you raise your hand than if you don't." -Dr. John Tarr, my math teacher
"It seems that the future only lies in the present, and the present is only a product of the past." -Allison, my good friend
"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out." -Annonymous
"If music be the food of love, play on." -William Shakespeare
"O learn to read what silent love hath writ. To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit." -William Shakespeare
"...I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person just as they are and not as one would like them to be..." -Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
"I think therefore I am." -Rene Descartes
"Christianity is a battle not a dream" -Wendell Phillips
"True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind rises it higher" -J. Petit-Senn
"There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full!" -Henry
Kissinger
"Everyone thinks his own cross is the heaviest." -unknown*
"A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure." -unknown*
"A true friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out." -Walter Winchell
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." -unknown*
"Happiness is the only thing that multiplies by division." -unknown*
"A good laugh is sunshine in a house." -unknown*
"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." -unknown*
"Christ's friendship prevails when human friendship fails." -unknown*
"Friendship is the cement that holds the world together." -unknown*
"The reason a dog has so many friends is because it wags its tail and not
its tongue." -unknown*
"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly
level." -unknown*
"Being square creates a circle of friends." -unknown*
"The best mirror is an old friend." -unknown*
"The best vitamin for developing friends is B1." -unknown*
"An old friend is better than two new ones." -unknown*
"A friend is someone who thinks you're a good egg even though you're
slightly cracked." -unknown*
"Solitude is very sad, but but too much company is twice as bad." -unknown*
"A friend is a person who listens attentively while you say nothing." -unknown*
"Friends are made by many acts-and lost by only one." -unknown*
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice
because thorns have roses."
-Ziggy
"You cannot see eye to eye with someone you look down on." -unknown*
"No knight can be brave unless he is in love; Love gives the knight his courage." -Philippe de Mezieres
"It's so much friendlier with two!" -Piglet (Benjamin Hoff)
"The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves." -Leonardo Da Vinci
"Does it take the glare of disaster to show a man in his true light?" -Jean-Dominique Bauby
"A hen is an egg's way of creating another egg." -Samuel Butler
"I'll look to like; if looking, liking move." -Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
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