"whether you think you can, or you think you can't, either way you're right."
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
- - - -J. R. R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings"
"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn...and change." -Carl Rogers
"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior." -Henry C. Link
"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.." -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong." -Dandemis
"Life is no Laughing matter, but can you imagine life without laughter?"
"If at first you don't succeed -- give up! No use being a damn fool." -Anon
"Silence is one great art of conversation." -Anon
"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination." -Anon
"Life is unsure, always eat your dessert first." -Anon
"The Two Rules of Success: 1. Don't tell everything you know." -Anon
"I can resist everything but temptation." - Oscar Wilde
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." -Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Always remember that you're unique, just like everyone else."
"Roses are red
Violets are blue
Some poems rhyme
But this one doesn't."
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste
good with ketchup."
"Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway."
"The world's full of apathy, but I don't care.
"There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't.
"This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.
"It's amazing to what extent people will go to avoid doing anything." --Nathan Westheimer
"I never let school get in the way of my education." --Mark Twain
"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself." - George Bernard Shaw
"If God had meant for you to be nude, you would have been born that way."
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." --Calvin & Hobbes
"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest." ---Mark Twain
"It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do." --Garfield, the cat
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." --John Lennon
"Keep smiling. It makes people wonder what you've been up to."
"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." -- Albert Einstein
"Everything is in walking distance if you have the time."-- Steven Wright
"We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love..." -- R. Fulghum
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." -- A. Whitney Brown
"Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone." -- Tommy Cooper
"You know nothing for sure...execept the fact that you know nothing for sure". - John F. Kennedy -
"There are three kinds of people in this world: Those who make things happen; Those who watch things happen; And those that wonder what happen."
"I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain." -- Jane Wagner
"I hope life isn't a big joke ... because I don't get it."
"I always knew that I'd look back at my tears and laugh, but I never thought that I'd look back at my laughter and cry."
"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable." -- David Tyson Gentry
"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."
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
"The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts."
-- Epicurus "A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
"I wouldn't mind dying -- it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me." R. Geis
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus.
"You are a leaf. Anyway the wind blows, your past is always behind you. Enjoy the time today for it will be your past someday. But by living today you are making a better future. As long as you look back on your past and say, "That was fun."
"Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?"
"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes."
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right."
Issac Asimov "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." John Lennon
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally." W. C. Fields