MY FAVORITE QUOTES
"If truth is knowledge, knowledge is power, and power corrupts, then are
all the liars in the world really the good guys?"
-Unknown
"Life is an adventure to be lived, not a problem to be solved."
-Unknown
"Don't be afraid to try something new. An amateur built the arc. Professionals built the Titanic"
-Unknown
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
-Tom Clancy
"Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant."
-Unknown
"Do or do not, there is no Try"
-Yoda
"We are the Music Makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams"
-Gene Wilder (as Willy Wonka)
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
-Elbert Hubbard
"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing
over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla."
-Jim Bishop
"The face I may blush to offer...the mind I will never fail to
present"
-Queen Elizabeth of England
"Doh!"
-Homer Simpson
"You can complain that roses have thorns, or you can rejoice that
thorns have roses."
�Ziggy
"Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either."
-Gerald Barzan
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those
of us who do."
-Anonymous
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or
lose."
-Former President Lyndon B. Johnson
"Do not cut what can be untied."
-Unknown
"You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid."
-Translation taken from a Japanese hotel
"Look for something positive in a crisis: When written in Chinese, the
word crisis is composed of two characters; one represents danger and
the other one represents opportunity."
-John F Kennedy
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing
your temper or your self-confidence."
-Robert Frost
"An ugly carpet will last forever."
-Erma Bombeck
"You never know how much you don't know, until you know. You know?"
-Joseph Rocheleau
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
-William Shedd
"It is easier to stay out than get out."
-Mark Twain
"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few
pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast."
-Douglas Adams
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"He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch."
-Unknown
"The early worm gets eaten by the bird."
-Unknown
"The road to success is always under construction."
-Unknown
"Change never hurt anyone except when it was thrown from the Empire
State Building."
- Unknown
"The darkest hour is that before the dawn."
-Proverb
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so
long to begin it."
-W. M. Lewis
"But, of course, those of us who understand life couldn't care less about numbers!"
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince
"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first
woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to
kill again."
- Marin County newspaper's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be
purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid
it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may
take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me
death!"
-Patrick Henry
"Tell a person that there are 400 billion stars and they'll believe you. Tell them a bench has wet paint and they have to touch it."
-Unknown
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in
eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star
in our hand and melting like a snowflake."
-Marie Beyon Ray
"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions
are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in
while, or the light won't come in."
-Alan Alda
"Last night I played a blank tape at full blast.The mime next door went nuts."
-Unknown
"Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?"
-Unknown
"Whose cruel idea was it for the word 'lisp' to have an 's' in it?"
-Unknown
"I went to a book store and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self help section?' She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose."
-Unknown
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
-Leonardo da Vinci
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of
courage to move in the opposite direction."
-Albert Einstein
"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is
unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere,
will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and
despondency make them give it up as unattainable."
-Lord Chesterfield, 17th Century English statesman
"A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser
does."
-Marilyn vos Savant
"My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give
you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past
twenty-five years."
-Paul Merton
"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies."
-Gene Hill
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would
pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
-David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urging for investment
in the radio in the 1920s
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary
that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as
possible, all things."
-Descartes
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."
-George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."
-Abigail Van Buren
"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in reaching them with
your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you
choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your
destiny."
-Carl Schurz
"Joy must have sorrow."
-Polish Proverb
"The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness."
-Chinese Proverb
"An learned man once went to a Zen master to inquire about Zen. As
the Zen master talked, the educated man would frequently interrupt him
with remarks like, 'Oh yes, we have that to....' etc. Finally the Zen
master stopped talking and began to serve tea to the educated man;
however, he kept on pouring until the tea cup over flowed. 'Enough, no
more cin go into the cup!' the educated interrupted. 'Indeed I see,'
answered the Zen master. 'If you do not first empty your cup, how can
you taste my cup of tea?'"
-Bruce Lee
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't
matter and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr. Seuss
The Lord will drench you with His showers, but he will dry you with
His sun.
-Czech Proverb
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many
ignorant men are sure of.
-Clarence Darrow
A friend is a person with a sneaky knack of saying good things about
you behind your back. But a best friend makes sure she says them to
your face.
-M.L. Pearce North Bay, Ontario Canada
"A sugarcube of neutron star stuff on earth would weigh as much as all
humanity! This illustrates again how much of humanity is empty
space."
-Astronomer and author Frank Shu
I know you think you understood what you think I said, but I am not
sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
-President Richard Nixon, quoted from a nationally televised "White
Water" related speech.
"Listen for your tongue makes you deaf."
-A Native American Proverb
We are more like pens than pencils. When we make a mistake we can't
just erase it and go one, we can mark over it, use whiteout, do
whatever, but it is still there. But, we can go on after it and we can
apologize for it and we can try not to make that mistake again.
-Lucci Chambless, Gulfport, Mississippi
A life without love, is like an hourglass without sand....empty.
-Amanda Beltran, Apple Valley, Ca
A good friend will fit you like ring to finger.
- Venezuelan Proverb
"Famous Last words:
.: Don't unplug it; it will just take a moment to fix:.
.:I wonder where the mother bear is:.
.:What happens when you touch these two wires tog--:.
.:That's odd.:.
.:Let it down slowly:.
.:What does this button do?:.
.:He's probably just hibernating:. "
-Jen
DID YOU KNOW?
William Hazlitt created the word "ultracrepidarian" to refer to a
critic who is ignorant or presumptuous.
In 1792, Congress passed legislation authorizing the U.S.
Mint to coin money, all to be inscribed with the Latin words
"E Pluribus Unum," a motto meaning "OUT OF MANY, ONE."
