quotables

Christine's Collection of Quotable Quotes

These are quotes that I have picked up along my way that I find myself reading every so often. Some are profound, some are funny, some are familiar and some are just plain interesting. They are in no particular order and I hope you enjoy reading them.

If music be the food of love, play on! - William Shakespeare

We really need only five things on this earth:� Some food, some sun, some work, some fun, and someone.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left and for deeds left undone. - Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: "Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time." When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most." - George Bernard Shaw

He who laughs, lasts.� - Mary Pettibone Poole

The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved. - Russell Lynes

If I can love but once, let it be thee.

A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. - Pam Brown

If you live your life out of memory, you live out of your history.� That's what once was.� If you live out of your imagination, you live out of your potential.� That's what can be.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When all other means of communications fail, try words.

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.� It makes you wonder what else you can do. - Lester (from American Beauty)

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - Henry Louis Mencken

Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.� - Dorothy Galyean

Life is like photography; you use the negative to develop.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.� - L. P. Jacks

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. - Wilson Mizner

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.� - Mignon McLaughlin

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.� - Malcolm Forbes

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

The game of life is a game of boomerangs.� Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.� - Frances Scovel Shinn

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.� - Thomas Alva Edison

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.� It is the only thing.� - Albert Schweitzer

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.� - Charles F. Kettering

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.� - Mack McGinnis

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.� - Julia Sorel

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.� - George Sand

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

We make a living by what we get; but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. -AphraBehn

If I were Webster's editor, I would have made him add a fifth definition for the word, "exquisite":� "5. You."

Always do sober what you said you would do drunk, that will teach you to keep your mouth shut.� - Ernest Hemingway

Success is simple.� Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.� - Arnold Glasow

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead of you. - Mac McCleary

Knowledge is learning something every day.� Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen saying

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. - O. A. Battista

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail Van Buren

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.� - Henry Ward Beecher

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.� - Earl Wilson

We only do well the things we like doing. - Colette

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who that person is.� Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.� - Marianne Williamson

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. - Marcus Aurelius

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. - Sacha Guitry

Simplicity is the highest goal; achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.� - Frederic Chopin

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. - Comte DeBussy-Rabutin��

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. - Francois de La Rouchefoucauld��

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade. - Dale Carnegie

Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile. - Justine Milton��

When you have reached the end of your rope - Tie a knot in it and hold on.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. - Sydney Harris

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.�� - Henry Ford

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.� Dream.� Discover.� - Mark Twain

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.� - Will Rogers

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up. - Vince Lombardi

I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up. - Pierre S. DuPont, IV

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates. - Magic Johnson

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.� - Collette

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. - Karl Menninger

Life is a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once.� - Lillian Dickson

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.� - Brendan Francis

Love is like water; you need eight servings a day.

To get to the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.� - W. H. Auden��

You'll never see the stars if you are always looking down.

In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Those who do not set goals are destined to work for those who do.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. - Seneca

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.� - William James

Be like a postage stamp--stick to one thing until you get there. - Josh Billings

Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.� - Leo Tolstoy

Eliminate something superfluous from your life.� Break a habit.� Do something that makes you feel insecure. - Piero Ferrucci

I'm not obsessing.� I'm just curious. - Ricky (from American Beauty)

We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity. - Walter E. Cole

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball. - Mitzi Chandler

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.� - Agatha Christie

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. - Charley Reese

Eighty percent of success is showing up.� - Woody Allen

If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. - Alphonse Karr��

You don't need to understand where I am coming from because you aren't going to be where I am going.� - Nicole Verna

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.� - Robert Graves��

A woman is like a teabag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt

If only we could stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.� - Edith Wharton

Immature love says: ";I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."� - Erich Fromm��

God gave us two ends.� One to sit on and one to think with.� Success depends on which one you use; head you win - tails, you lose.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do - Eleanor Roosevelt

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.� - Nanette Newman

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

The first duty of love is to listen.� - Paul Tillich��

It is better to be looked over than overlooked. - Mae West

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging of an uncompleted task. - William James

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.� - Mary Roberts Rhinehart��

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.� - G. K. Chesterton

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship. - Alfred A. Montapert

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.� - Dale Carnegie

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.� - Bruce Barton

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. - Thomas Dewar��

If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.� - Dr. Seuss��

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.�� - Mae West

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.� - Doris Lessing

Better to get up late and be wide-awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.�

Your thoughts determine your actions.� Your actions determine your habits. Your habits determine your character, and your character gives birth to your destiny.

There are two ways to climb a tree - climb it limb by limb or sit on an acorn.

Whatever you are, be a good one. - Abraham Lincoln

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilicnecrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.� - Woody Allen

Life is raw material.� We are artisans.� We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful,� or debase it into ugliness.� It's in our hands.� - Cathy Better

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. - Ziggy

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Benjamin Disraeli

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. - Howard W. Newton

Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.� The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.� - Benjamin May

The deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated. - William James

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.� - Ralph Waldo Emerson

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.� - Paul Sweeney

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.� - Lao-Tzu

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.� - Fr. Jerome Cummings��

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Pope

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. - Jerry Seinfeld

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

--Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

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