Wednesday, January 24, 2007

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phillip skinner said...

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are.
~Houssaye~
Wine is bottled poetry.
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished...and how else could we discover the stars?
~Unknown~
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.
~Unknown~
To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~e.e. cummings~
Love is not blind, it sees more not less; but because it sees more it chooses to see less.
~Rabbi Julins Gordon~
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful...
There are many things that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.
We are what we pretend to be, but we better be careful what we pretend.
~Kurt Vonnegut~
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
~Cindy Lew~
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
~Bernadette Devlin~
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
~Friedrich Nietzsche~
My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery.
God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die!
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy--and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
~Robert Heinlein~
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~Gilbert Highet~
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
~Paul Rudnick~
No pressure, no diamonds.
~Mary Case~
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness
isn't good enough for me! I want euphoria!
~Calvin~
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
~Rita Mae Brown~
Some day my ship will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
~Buddha~
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson~
Sleep...Oh! how I loath those little slices of death...
~Longfellow~
Truth fears no questions.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
~Gen. Omar Bradley~
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
~Samuel Johnson~
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
~Greek Proverb~
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.
If you listened hard the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck~
As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need--tremendous self control.
~Ashleigh Brilliant~
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
~Robert Orben~
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
~Jerry Chin~
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
~George Bernard Shaw~
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
~Albert Schweitzer~
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
~Oscar Wilde~
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
~La Rochefoucald~
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
~Compte DeBussy-Rabutin~
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
~Bertrand Russell~
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
No distance of place or lapse of time can lesson the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
~Robert Southey~
If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?
The most wasted of all days is the one without laughter.
~e.e. cummings~
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
~Charles Caleb Colton~
If you suffer, thank God!--it is a sure sign that you are alive.
~Elbert Hubbard~
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
~Chief Seattle~
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever!
Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get.
~Forrest Gump~
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
~Tom Stoppard~
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
~Bessie Stanley~
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving--we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie anchor.
~Oliver W. Holmes~
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
~James Joyce~
A library is an arsenal of liberty.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
You can't have everything! Where would you put it?
~Steven Wright~
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
~Henrik Tikkanen~
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
~Galileo Galilei~
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing to itself.
~Froude~
You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
~Anthony J. D'Angelo~
The most important things in life aren't things.
~Anthony D'Angelo~
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
~George Bernard Shaw~
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
A home is not a mere transient shelter: It's essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
~H.L. Mencken~
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask remains a fool forever.
~Chinese Proverb~
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
~Will Rogers~
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
~William Dement~
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
~Soren Kierkegaard~
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
~Old Indian Saying~
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.
~Winnie-thePooh/A.A. Milne~
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgement. And you can see forever.
~Nancy Kerrigan~