A collection of Quotes, enjoy.

• Bright eyed and bushy tailed, sounds like a squirrel on crack to me
  -Anonymous
  
  
• Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
  -Mark Twain
  
  
• Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.
  -Gene Brown
  
  
• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes
  -Hugh Downs
  
  
• Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
  -Robert F. Kennedy
  
  
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
  -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone. Pass it on. Let it travel down the years. Let it wipe another's tears, til in Heaven the deed appears. Pass it on.
  -Henry Burton
  
  
• i had to play with myself...there was no one else to play with :-D
  -Catherine
  
  
• hey im 18, i dont have to worry about gettin in trouble for looking at porn on the internet.
  -Lenny
  
  
• The outside world is big and scary and has bad grammar.
  -Danielle
  
  
• Never pet a burning dog. I know it sounds silly, but trust me on this one.
  -Timothy Shaw
  
  
• Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
  -Anonymous
  
  
• Who needs mind altering drugs, when you've got friends like ours.
  -Timothy Shaw
  
  
• One of Life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
  -Merlin Olsen
  
  
• I have made my wings, I will learn to fly, though I may fall, I have become my own angel
  -Anonymous
  
  
• Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
  -Dinah Shore
  
  
• That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
  -Richard Bach ,The Bridge Across Forever
  
  
• Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
  -Anonymous
  
  
• Sometimes I miss the fifties in the fifties we were scared of Boris Karloff. We were scared of Martians or the Russians invading us. We weren't scared of eating in fast-food restaurants or riding the Long Island Railroad or working in clinics.
  -Paula Vogel ,The Mineola Twins
  
  
• No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
  -Anonymous
  
  
• The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.
  -Anonymous
  
  
• History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder.
  -Bishop Desmond Tutu
  
  
• Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin, but it is a loss that liberates the victim...One asks, 'Have you forgiven those who held you prisoner of war?' 'I will never forgive them,' replies the other. His mate says, 'Then it seems they still have you in prison, don't they?
  -Bishop Desmond Tutu
  
  
• When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
  -Bernard Meltzer
  
  
• I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the people they forgive. And their instant forgiving only makes things worse... People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive... There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives... Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls
  -Lewis B. Smedes
  
  
• You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
  -Lewis B. Smedes
  
  
• He who angers you controls you. And I will not be controlled.
  -Andrew Smith
  
  
• Anything not nailed down is mine. Anything I can pry up is not nailed down.
  -Anonymous
  
  
• A man can still be a man and wear silk boxers. Men can't wear silk whitey tighties 'cause then they'd be panties.
  -sluggy freelance
  
  
• Soulless Spike would have had me upside-down and halfway to happy land by now.
  -Anya ,Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sleeper
  
  
• On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
  -Edward Young
  
  
• Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
  -Leon J. Suenes
  
  
• We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
  -Mao Tse-Tung
  
  
• Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
  -Martha Graham
  
  
• The more you seek security, the less of it you will have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
  -Brian Tracy
  
  
• Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
  -The Land Before Time
  
  
• Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
  -Chief Seattle
  
  
• Vision without action is only a dream. Action without vision is wasting time. Vision and Action can change the world!
  -Confucious
  
  
• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
  -John Muir
  
  
• Not all that is gold glitters, Not all who wander are lost.
  -Lord of the Rings
  
  
• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
  -Abraham Maslow
  
  
• When your concentration reaches the ultimate point of sincerity, then there can be a transformation.
  -Hsuan Hua
  
  
• The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
  -Stephen Hawking
  
  
• Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
  -Ramana Maharshi
  
  
• Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
  -William B. Sprague
  
  
• It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.
  -Ruskin
  
  
• The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
  -Arthur C. Clarke
  
  
• But except for having been dead--something Paul thought was usually considered a fairly serious medical problem--the boy seemed to be suffering from nothing worse than exhaustion.
  -Tad Williams ,Otherland Book 4: Sea of Silver Light
  
  
• It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
  -Lin Yutang
  
  
• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
  -Edgar Allan Poe
  
  
• Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
  -Charles Fisher
  
  
• Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
  -Desiderius Erasmus
  
  
• I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
  -Aeschylus
  
  
• When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
  -Otto von Bismarck
  
  
• It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
  -Thomas Sowell
  
  
• Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
  -Lord Acton
  
  
• Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia- that is, nowhere.
  -Denis William Brogan
  
  
• It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
  -Alfred Adler
  
  
• A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for the coffin
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• A home is not mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the improbable.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations to together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• Injustice is relatively easy to bear, what stings is justice.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• Democracy is the theory that two thieves will steal less than one, and three less than two, and four less than three, and so on ad infinitum.
  -H. L. Mencken
  
  
• We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
  -Georges Duhamel
  
  
• Nothin is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
  -Ralph Blum
  
  
• To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned."
  -Edward Bulwer Lytton
  
  
• We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
  -Gerald J. Simmons
  
  
• Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
  -Louisa May Alcott
  
  
• When one door closes, another opens. But, often we look so long, so regretfully, upon the closed door, that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
  -Helen Keller
  
  
• It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary, but irresistible, way through a thousand obstacles.
  -Washington Irving
  
  
• Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
  -Confucious
  
  
• Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
  -Publilius Syrus
  
  
• Touch passion when it comes your way. It's rare enough as it is. Don't walk away when it calls you by name.
  -J. Michael Straczynski
  
  
• The real leader has no need to lead-he is content to point the way.
  -Henry Miller
  
  
• Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
  -Bayard Taylor
  
  
• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
  -Jawaharlal
  
  
• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
  -Seneca
  
  
• To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.
  -Anatole
  
  
• For every beauty there is an eye to see it. For every truth there is an ear to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
  -Ivan Panin
  
  
• Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
  -Mother Teresa
  
  
• Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
  -Emil Ludwig
  
  
• Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
  -Clarence Day
  
  
• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
  -Samuel Butler
  
  
• Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
  -Rita Mae Brown
  
  
• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
  -L. Ron Hubbard
  
  
• Whatever you do, or dream, begin it now. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
  -Goethe
  
  
• The greatest mistake you can make is life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
  -Elbert Hubbard
  
  
• There is nothing as strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
  -Ralph W. Sockman
  
  
• He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.
  -Eleanor Roosevelt
  
  
• There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
  -Freya Madeline Stark
  
  
• Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
  -Robertson Davies
  
  
• The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
  -Marcel Proust
  
  
• There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
  -Albert Einstein
  
  
• The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presense.
  -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
  -Buckminster Fuller
  
  
• It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
  -Jane Hamilton
  
  
• For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let the people look into your mind.
  -Bruce Barton
  
  
• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
  -Ronald E. Osborn
  
  
• It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.
  -Sydney Smith
  
  
• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
  -Paramahansa Yogananda
  
  
• Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we can not continue, that the whole of our whole lives is without meaning.
  -Brother Alwyn Macomber ,The Deconstruction of Falling Stars (Babylon 5)
  
  

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