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You didn`t have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was gonna that fast. - Jerry Coleman
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. - Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Dorothy Nevill
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country. - Sinclair Lewis
Our hours in love have wings in absence, crutches. - Colley Cibber
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes
It`s not a problem that we have a problem. It`s a problem if we don`t deal with the problem. - Mary Kay Utech
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
God help those who do not help themselves. - Wilson Mizner
Look to your health and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can`t buy. - Izaak Walton
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. - James Thurber
If the Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at how much glow-in-the-dark stuff we have, and how we take so much of it for granted. - Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
We must not be hampered by yesterday`s myths in concentrating on today`s needs. - Harold S. Geneen
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. - Alexandre Dumas
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. - Anon.
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you - Fanny Brice
A classic is a book which people praise and don`t read. - Mark Twain
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song. - Will Durant
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart. - H. W. Dodds
The family is the country of the heart. - Giuseppe Mazzini
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias. - Albert Einstein
There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it. - Real Live Preacher
None love the messenger who brings bad news. - Sophocles
I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. - Mark Duffy
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive - Irv Kupcinet
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. - Anne Tyler
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun. - Kahlil Gibran
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. - Lord Acton
Religion, whatever it is, is a man`s total reaction upon life. - William James
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. - George Levinger
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. - Eva Pern
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it`s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. - Al Franken
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. - Unknown
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. - Baltasar Gracian
Better a mouse in the pot than no meat at all. - Romanian Proverb
...solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition... - Amelia Barr
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I`m still doing it. - Miles Davis
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction. - Kabbalah
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. - Johann von Goethe
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison. - Henry David Thoreau
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations`s professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. - Oscar W. Firkins
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. - Kilgore Trout
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its 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
First deserve, and then desire. - English Proverb
The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Plato
...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. - Woodrow Wilson
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few. - Pythagoras
He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike. - William Shakespeare
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. - Oprah Winfrey
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. - Samuel Johnson
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good. - Victoria Lincoln
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. - Karen Kaiser Clark
Where there is no vision, the people perish. - Proverbs 2918 Bible
When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, an hundred. - Thomas Jefferson
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn`t park anywhere near the place. - Steven Wright
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be. - Marquis de Sade
Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child. - Danish proverb
The cat could very well be man`s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. - Doug Larson
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational. - Sydney Harris
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. - Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. - Albert Einstein
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. - Charles W. Eliot
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G. K. Chesterton
He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn`t have any. - Mark Twain
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. - Francis Bacon
You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church. - Bill Lee
Isn`t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about It just makes me feel glad to be alive -- it`s such an interesting world. - Lucy Montgomery
Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don`t. - Brett Butler
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. - Robert Southey
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. - Leonard Bernstein
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. - Edward Chapin
I`m just an average guy. I`m not Mother Teresa, but I`m not Charles Manson either. - Mike Tyson
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
All great achievements require time. - David Joseph Schwartz
I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me. - Terence
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them - Albert Einstein
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness. - Victor Hugo
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. - Dean Koontz
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. - George Santayana
The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. - George Stanley McGovern
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. - Izaak Walton
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right. - Mark Twain
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. - Saint Augustine
I came into the world either too early or too late at present, I am good for nothing. - Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke
With enough `ifs` we could put Paris in a bottle. - French Proverb
Things that are not at all, are never lost. - Christopher Marlowe
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. - Samuel Smiles
A father is a banker provided by nature. - French Proverb
Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have. - Unknown
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one`s self... Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. - Vash Young
STAY is a charming word in a friend`s vocabulary. - Amos Bronson Alcott
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one`s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. - Johann von Goethe
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. - Dorothy Parker
Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself. - Unknown
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. - Henry James