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If it's not fun, why do it? -Ben and Jerry

Wisdom is the province of the aged, but the heart of a child is pure. -Hrundi Bakshi, "The Party"

I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are. ... So we're both sorry, all right?! ... All right. -President Merkin Muffley, "Dr. Strangelove"

Happiness isn't something you experience. It's something you remember. -Oscar Levant

We accept the reality we’re presented with. -Christoff, "The Truman Show"

Well, we figured now that you’re 21, legal drinking age, we should get you a car. -"Good Will Hunting"

Real loss occurs only when you love something more than you love yourself. -"Good Will Hunting"

I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. -"City of Angels"

I guess sometimes there just aren’t enough rocks. -"Forrest Gump"

When you first meet people, all you notice are the differences between you and them, but as time passes, you start noticing the similarities. I guess that’s how all friendships begin. -Brian Kessler, "Kalifornia"

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -Hector Berlioz

Too much of a good thing is wonderful. -Mae West

If a tree falls over in the forest, and it hits a mime, does anyone care? -Gary Larson

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. -Richard Bach

Joey: People change, Dawson.
Dawson: They don't have to.
Joey: Yes, they do. People die, and they move away... and they grow up, Dawson. Everthing changes eventually.
-Dawson's Creek

The world's a roller coaster
And I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care
But my hands are busy in the air.
-Incubus "I Wish You Were Here"

We're here for a good time
Not a long time
So have a good time
The sun can't shine every day.
-Trooper "Here for a good time (but not a long time)"

'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Love is not in our choice but in our fate. -John Dryden

Who's more foolish? The fool or the one who follows him. -Obi Wan Kenobi

What you see depends on what you're looking for.

The only way to see a rainbow is to look through the rain.

It's amazing what God can do with a broken heart when given all the pieces.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. -Will Rogers

To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts. -Frank Tyger

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long. -Moliere

If love proves real, and two people are meant to be together, than nothing can keep them apart. -"The Crow"

I’ll take with me the memories, to be my sunshine after the rain. It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday. -Boyz II Men "It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye"

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower. -Glenn Ford

I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -Mike Binder

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Love knows not its depth until the hour of separation. -Kahil Gibran

No man is ever worth crying over, but if he is, he won't let you cry.

You should never let the sun set on tomorrow, before the sun rises today. -Nine Days "If I Am"

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. -Helen Keller

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart.

My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are. -B.A. Billingsly

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.

Just think of how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back.

Some says it's holding on that makes you stronger, others say it's letting go.

Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision? -Marilyn Monroe

Just because something ends doesn't mean it never should have been.

Most of us can read the writing on teh walls, we just assume it's addressed to someone else.

Why can't we just get together all the people in the world that we really like? And then stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. And then we'd have to say goodbye. I hate goodbyes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. -Snoopy

There is one pain that I often feel, which you'll never know. It's caused by the absence of you. -Ashley Brillant

You always smile, but in your eyes, your sorrow shows. -William Peterhorn

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have the time -Tallulah Bankhead

You have to stay awake to make your dreams come true.

You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. -Chinese Proverb

If I know what love is, it is because of you. -Herman Hesse

You told me you couldn't believe in someone who didn't believe in you. I always believed in you. I just didn't believe in me. -"Pretty in Pink"

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -Walter Bagehet

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. -Nietzche

Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer you want me to. -Fleetwood Mac

His time had come; He ran his race; We hope he's in a better place. -Jonathan Swift

It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot

There are many mediocre things in life that we have to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. -Dream for an Insomniac

I haven't failed. I've found ten thousand ways that don't work. -Benjamin Franklin

I don't know whether to smile because he is my friend or cry because thats all we are.

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague. -Judith Mamers

I'm the girl that guys are friends with, not the girl guys date. -Joey "Dawson's Creek"

If laughing makes you live longer, you would make me live forever.

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it... or learn from it.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up everytime we fail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.

Obstacles are what we see when we take our eyes of the goal. -Crossman

Guys are like parking spaces, they're all either taken or handicapped. And the second you finally find one, you see an even better one across the lot.

There's people you've known forever. Who like, know you, in this "way". That other people can't. Because they've seen you change. They've let you change. -Rayanne "My So-Called Life"

How a man plays the game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.

Sure, basketball's a team game. But each player has a man to break down. A guy that's his to get around. And while it's true there's no "I" in team, consider this: There is an "I" in win. -Nike Ad

Winners make goals. Losers make excuses.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination and a hard to find alloy called guts. -Dan Gable

Set your goals high and don't stop till you get there.

I look at you, looking at me. Now I know why they say the best things are free. -Monica "Angel of Mine"

If you want it, you got it, you just got to believe: believe in yourself. 'Cause it's all just a game, we just want to be loved. -Lenny Kravitz "Believe"

How do you teach your heart it's a crime to fall in love again? You probably won't remember me, it's probably ancient history. I'm one of the chosen few, who went ahead and fell for you. I fell too fast, I feel too much. -Jann Arden "Insensitive"

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. -Garth Brooks

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy just because she can. -Fiona Apple, "Criminal"

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. -Muhammed Ali

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more then he thinks he can do. -Henry Ford

True love is when you're still dancing, long after the music has stopped.

The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist. -"Usual Suspects"

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. -Jack Dixon

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. -Robert Frost

Life's a journey, not a destination. -Aerosmith "Amazing"

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

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats. -Pablo Picasso

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

The opposite of love is indifference, not hate.

The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it. -David Searles

It all works out in the end, so if it isn't working out, I guess it's not over yet!

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Bad times wake us up to the good times we weren't paying attention to. -"Good Will Hunting"

As you left and said your goodbyes, you forgot to tell my heart how to live without you.

You're going to find out that you're not perfect. And you're going to find out she's not perfect. The question is, are you perfect together? -"Good Will Hunting"

You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince.

Of all the words of tongue and pen, the saddest are "It might have been". More sad are these we daily see: "It is, but hadn't ought to be."

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again. Skinned knees are easier to fix then broken hearts.

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right next to them, knowing you can't have them. -"Dawson's Creek"

You can get all A's and still flunk life. -Walter Percy

A poem begins with a lump in the throat. -Robert Frost

Some people say that I'm a horrible person, but that's not true. I have the heart of a boy - in a jar on my desk. -Stephen King

Guys who have big muscles and a nice car are usually trying to make up for a lost feature.

Smile... it's the second best thing to do with your lips.

Always keep your face to the sun, and the shadows will always fall behind you.

We always admire the other fellow more after we have tried to do his job. -William Feather

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -Erica Jong

Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full. -Henry Kissinger

Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open. -John Barrymore

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more then he thinks he can do. -Henry Ford

Some people march to a different drummer... and some people polka.

It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men. -Mae West

If you think you're too small to make an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. -Anita Koddick

If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be human. You'd be a game show host. -Winona Ryder

When you rezlize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. -Billy Crystal "When Harry Met Sally"

It is better to fail in originality then to succeed in imitation. -Herman Melville

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

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

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm. -Frank Dane

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call "Destiny". -John Oliver Hobbes

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. -Ed Howe

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes, just be an illusion. -Javan

Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized and sold off piece by piece. -Lisa Simpson

A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. -H.W.Arnold

People think it must be fun to be a supergenius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. -Calvin (& Hobbes)

Seven days without laughter makes one weak. -Mort Walker

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -Tom Clancy

I guess we're all two people. One in daylight, one in shadow. -Batman

Sometims being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to. -Dolores Claiborne

This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received instructions on where to go and what to do. -Angela "My So-Called Life"

My whole life became divided. Into kissing. And not kissing. Kissing and NOT kissing. -Angela "My So-Called Life"

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and we know we cannot live within. -James Baldwin

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. -Margaret Bonmano

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. -Henry Kissinger

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. -Helen Maciness

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to life someone and a day to love someone. But it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Hope you find the one that makes you smile.

You may be dissapointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -Beverly Sills

The great question which I have not been able to answer is, "What does a woman want?"

You are never fully dressed until you wear a smile. -"Annie"

Some things are true whether you believe in them or not. -Nicholas Cage "City of Angels"

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

Duct tape is like "The Force". It has a light side, and a dark side and it holds the universe together. -Carl Zwanzig

The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant and the population is growing.

When you win, nothing hurts. -Joe Namath

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. -Blaine Pascal

Once someone touches your heart, the fingerprints last forever.

You have brains in your head, You have feet in your shoes, You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss

Wait a minute, if what you're saying is true, then I still don't care. -Dave Foley "Newsradio"

A dream is an answer to a question we haven't learned to ask. -Dana Scully "X-files"

You can't buy happiness with money, but you can't buy a bike with happiness either. -Bill Cosby

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Hate me because your boyfriend thinks so.

There's a smile in my heart, that I've waited my whole life for.

Joey: Sounds like you're looking for a Julia Roberts. Dawson: What I need is a you. -"Dawson's Creek"

When guys look at you, they think wow, what a babe. When they look at me they think, hmm, gee she's tall. -Joey "Dawson's Creek"

It's such a lie that you should do what's in your heart. If we all did what was in our heart, the world would grind to a halt. -Angela "My So-Called Life"

If only there was some button that I could just push to force me to stop talking. -Angela "My So-Called Life"

It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, something to look forward to and someone to love.

I want to live in your eyes, die in your arms and be buried in your heart.

Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to. -Arnold H. Glasow

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence that life is worth while, so when you are lonely, remember this is true: Somebody, somewhere is thinking of you.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. -Roy Croft

Don't spend your life with someone you can live with, spend it with the one you can't live without.

Believe you can and you're halfway there. -Theodore Roosevelt

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. -Bill Gates

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way. -"Calvin" (Calvin & Hobbes)

What's the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em? -Calvin

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

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

People say to me, 'You're not very feminine.' Well, they can suck my dick. -Roseanne

Love and stoplights can be cruel. -Sesame Street

Sometimes someone says something really small and it fits right into this empty place in your heart. -Angela "My So-Called Life"

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. -Joey Adams

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. -Jon Kabatzinn

You can do anything in life you set you mind to, provided it is powered by your heart. -Doug Firebaught

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. -Jay Leno

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. -C.S. Lewin "The Magician's Nephew"

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself. -L.Tolstoy

Few things are harder to put up with then a good example. -Mark Twain

Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been. -Mark Twain

Promise me, Pooh, that you won't forget me ever, because if I thought you would, I wouldn't leave. -Christopher Robins

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyways. -"Calvin (& Hobbes)"

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. -"Calvin"

My life needs a rewind/erase button. -"Calvin"

I imagine bugs and girls have a dim perception that nature played a cruel trick on them, but they lack the intelligence to really comprehend the magnitude of it. -"Calvin"

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble -Dennis Fakes

If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record.

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think. -Elbert Hubbard

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess or an ordinary young man for a greek god. -H.R. Mencken

A man generally has two reasons for doing something. One that sounds good, and a real one. -J. Pierpoint Morgan

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. -Dwight Morrow

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration. -Thomas Edison

It is better to be silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt. -Silvan Engel

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. -Buckmister Fuller

Bugs: Small living things that small living boys throw on small living girls.

Horses just naturally have mohawk haircuts.

If you are going to try cross country skiing, start with a small country. -Steven Wright

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. -Ambrose Bierce

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

Compromise: An agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted. -Ambrose Bierce

There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who cannot.

Kiss: A course of procedure, cunningly divised for the mutual stoppage of conversation when words are superfluous. -Oliver Herford

Though we adore men individually, I agree that as a group they're rather stupid. -"Mary Poppins"

Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else. -"Will Rogers"

I am so glad that you are here - It helps me realize how beautiful my world is. -Goethe

A smile is a curved line that sets things straight.

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense in making them.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

I would rather model harmonica holders than discuss aztec anthropology, english literature or the history of the united nations. -Bob Dylan

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. -Albert Camus

All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should've been more specific. -Jane Wagner

When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. -Albert Einstein

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. -Henry David Thoreau

You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show courage. -Joe Namath

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing, it was here first. -Mark Twain

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in the direction to set you straight for your next success. -Denis Waitley

You need someone to love you while you're looking for someone to love. -Shelagh Delaney

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. -Tom Peters

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not. -Denis Waitley

Never shall I forget the day I spent with you. Continue to be my friend as you will always find me yours. -Beethoven

Friends applaud, the comedy is over. -Beethoven's last words

Who was the first guy that looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?" -Calvin from "Calvin & Hobbes"

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? -Vince Lombardi

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -Buddha

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours. -Earl Riney

Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid of standing still. -Chinese Proverb

Life is pain. Anyone who tells you something different is selling something. -"The Princess Bride"

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. -Plato

Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but the world through eyes blurred by the mind.

When I'm good, I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. -Mae West

A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Conscience is the inner voice that someone might be watching.-H.L.Mencken

Words sound stupid - Look into my eyes. -Michael Stipe

Between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before. -Mae West

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. -Bruce Lee

Nobody knows the age of the human race but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. -James Dean

Let your heart guid you. It whispers, so listen closely. -Land Before Time

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. -Charles A. Beard

Hey Jude, don't make it bad, Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let her into your heart. Then you can start to make it better. -"Hey Jude" -John Lennon & Paul McCartney

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -Mark Twain

A lie gets halfway around the world before truth has a chance to get its pants on. -Sir Winston Churchill

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing towards himself. -Louis Niger

You know a dream is like a river, Ever changing as it flows, And a dreamer's just a vessel, That must follow where it goes. -Garth Brooks "The River"

When placed in a container, Jello conforms to the shape of the vessel. You, however, should never conform. Unless, of course, you think you're Jell-O. -Signae Sunglasses

Smile, it increases your face value.

Losers whine about their best. Winner go home and fuck the prom queen. -"The Rock"

If you're naturally kind, you tend to attract a lot of people you don't like. -William Feather

No matter how fast or far you go, you can't outrun your problems.

You're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you. -"My So-Called Life"

All my life I've wanted to be normal, but I've come to realize that 'normal' is what you make of it.

If you say my eyes are beautiful, it's because they're looking at you. -Whitney Houston

Love doesn't make the world go around, it's what makes the ride worthwhile. -Franklin Jones

You only fall in love once, the rest is only practice to make sure your heart can take it.

If you die in one hundred days, I want to die in one hundred minue one, so I will never have to live a day without you. -Winnie The Pooh

The trouble with the ratrace is that even if you win, you are still a rat. -Lily Tomlin

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it. -Charles Buxton

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more tempting still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -Ben Franklin

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. -Bernard Berenson

Winners never quit and quitters never win. - Vince Lombardi

Everyone smiles in the same language.

I am not a perfectionist. My parents were though.

It is better to be hated for what you are then loved for what you are not.

The average woman would rather have beauty then brains because the average man can see better then he can think.

Long distance relationships are like playing Russian Roulette with five loaded chambers.

You complete me. -"Jerry McGuire"

I never wanted the stars, I never shot for the moon, I like them right where they are, All I wanted was you. -Bon Jovi

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers

Sure, God created man before woman. But you should always have a rough draft before the final masterpiece.

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T.S. Eliot

Don't care how you look, it's just how you feel. -Spice Girls

Do or do not. There is no try. -Yoda

I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. -Wayne Gretzky

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. -Friedrich Nietzch

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touch. They must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -Marlene Dietrich

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. -Sir James Dewar

Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases. -John Raper

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. -Theodore Roosevelt

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm. -Winston Churchill

First you forget names, the you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, and then you forget to pull your zipper down. -Leo Rosenburg

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. -Cheers

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. -Dr. Seuss

Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends, tell me where to get more wax.

Remember that nobody will get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Can I keep you? -Casper

A kiss is a pleasant reminder that two heads are better then one.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. -Albert Einstein

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

When in a fight, first walk 100 miles in the other man's shoes. Then you'll be 100 miles away and wearing his shoes.

It is the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes a chance.
It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give.
And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
-"The Rose" by Amanda McBroom, sung by Bette Midler

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. -Albert Camus

If life is a bowl of cheeries, then what am I doing in the pits? -Erma Bombeck

He doesn't make sense. I don't make sense. Together we make sense. -Untamed Heart

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. -Wizard of Oz

Sometimes I wish I had never met you because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there. -Good Will Hunting

You can not make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them. -Dawson's Creek

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -Charlie Brown

Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself. That's what makes the biggest difference. - Me

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. -Horace Walpole

It is better to die on your feet then to live on your knees.

There ain't no party like a Backstreet party cause a Backstreet party don't stop. -BSB

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. -Henry David Thoreau

What is mean to be will always find a way.

Winners are just ex-losers who got angry and did something about it.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

I drink to make other people interesting. -George Jean Nathan

If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, lets all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

If I reach for your hand will you hold it?
If I hold out my arms will you hug me?
If I go for your lips will you kiss me?
If I capture your heart, will you love me?

I'm trying to prove that the impossible exists. -Bjork

You only fall in love once, the rest is merely practice to make sure your heart can take it.

I could fill a thousand pages, telling you how I felt and still you would not understand, so now I leave without a sound, except my heart shattering as it hits the ground.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. -Henry David Thoreau

No one cares if you are miserable, so you might as well be happy. -Cynthia Nelms

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life, "It goes on." -Robert Frost

The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. -Henry David Thoreau

If you can't judge a fruit by the colour of its skin, how can you judge a person that way? -Fruitopia Bottle

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

There was never a good war or a bad peace. -Ben Franklin

The fear of death is more to be dreaded then fear itself. -Publilius Syrus

No one knows what he can do until he tries. -Publilius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. -Publilius Syrus

It is not every question which deserves an answer. -Publilius Syrus

Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings. -Heinrich Heine

May you live all the days of your life. -Jonathan Swift

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. -Jonathan Swift

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. -Jonathan Swift

It is better to know some of the questions, then all of the answers. -James Thurber

A=R+P (Adventure equals risk with a purpose) -Robert McClure

The city has a face, the country has a soul. -Jacques DeLacretelle

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. -Joseph Addison

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. -Pablo Casals

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. -Philip Dormer Stanhope

Facts are stubborn things. -Alain Rene Lesage

When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear. -Mark Twain

Procrastination is the thief of time. -Edward Young.

Society is no comfort to one not sociable. -Shakespeare

The future is today. -William Osler

Eat to live, not live to eat. -Ben Franklin

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there. -Charles Kettering

Where you came from is not nearly as important as where you are going.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistancy. -Jonathan Swift

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. -Jonathan Swift

If the very old will remember, the very young will listen. -Chief Dan George

It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. -Henry David Thoreau

A friend is a present you give yourself.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man. -Alain Rene Lesage

Common sense is not so common. -Voltaire

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways.

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by colour.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -Mark Twain

Never frown, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

Sometimes i feel as if the whole world is against me, but i know that's not true... some of the smaller countries are neutral.

Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have.

When I met you,
I was scared to hug you,
When I hugged you,
I was scared to kiss you,
When I kissed you,
I was scared to love you,
Now that I love you,
I'm scared to lose you.

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours, if it doesn't, it never really was in the first place.

Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -Robert Frost

You may be one person to the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of the bench when there's plenty of room at both ends.

When it comes to life,
Live like there is no tomorrow,
Love like you won't get hurt,
Work like you don't need the money,
And dance like no one is watching.

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money. -Jackie Mason

There is no right way to do a wrong thing.

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral. -Robert Orben

Flirtation: Attention without intention. -Max O'Reill

We know what we are, but know now what we may be. -Shakespeare's Hamlet

One today is worth two tomorrows. -Ben Franklin

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. -Woodrow Wyatt

Love has nothing to do with what you are expected to get, it's what you are expected to give, which is everything.

Everyone has a right to be stupid, some people just abuse the privalege.

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

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -William Shakespeare

Life is a sum of all your choices. -Albert Camus

It takes less time to do a thing right, then to explain why you did it wrong. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave. -Dominic

Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.

There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you.

FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF-

Ferris: How could I possibly be expected to handle school on a day like this?

Cameron: Ferris, my father loves this care more then life itself.
Ferris: A man with priorities so far out of whack doesn't deserve such a fine automobile.

Ferris: A-You can never go too far. B-If I'm gonna get busted, it is not gonna be by a guy like that.

Cameron: The 1961 Ferrari two-fifty GT California. Less then a hundred were made. My father spent three years restoring this car. It is his love, it is his passion…
Ferris: It is his fault he didn't lock the garage.

Ferris: We can't pick up Sloane in your car. Mr. Rooney would never believe that Mr. Peterson drives that piece of shit.
Cameron: It's not a "piece of shit".
Ferris: It is a piece of shit. Don't worry about it. I don't even have a piece of shit. I have to envy yours.

Ferris: I do have a test today, that wasn't bullshit. It's on European socialism. I mean really, what's the point? I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So, who gives a crap if they're Socialists? They could be fascist anarchists, it still wouldn't change the fact that I don't have a car.

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL-

French Soldier: I don't want to talk to you, no more, you empty-headed animal, food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Sir Robin: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE (I didn't think of them, but like them)

1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
2. Memorize your favorite poem.
3. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want
. 4. When you say, "I love you", mean it.
5. When you say, "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye.
6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
7. Believe in love at first sight.
8. Never laugh at anyone's dreams.
9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
11. Don't judge people by their relatives.
12. Talk slowly but think quickly.
13. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
15. Call your mom.
16. Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
17. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
18. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.
19. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
20. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
21. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
22. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
23. Spend some time alone.
24. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
25. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
26. Read more books and watch less TV.
27. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll get to enjoy it a second time.
28. Trust in God but lock your car.
29. A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home.
30. In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
31. Read between the lines.
32. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
33. Be gentle with the earth.
34. Pray and/or wish. There's immeasurable power in it.
35. Never interrupt when you are being flattered.
36. Mind your own business.
37. Don't trust a man/woman who doesn't close his/her eyes when you kiss.
38. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
39. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth's greatest satisfaction.
40. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck.
41. Learn the rules then break some.
42. Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.
43. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
44. Remember that your character is your destiny.
45. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

THE WIT AND THE WISDOM OF HOMER J. SIMPSON (for Stephen Carter)

"Now son, you don't want to drink beer. That's for Daddys, and kids with fake IDs."

"Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen."

"You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine."

"Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel."

"If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers."

"To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems!"

"I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over 50, and if its speed changed, it would explode! I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.'"

"I want to share something with you - the three sentences that will get you through life.
Number one, 'Cover for me.'
Number two, 'Oh, good idea, boss.'
Number three, 'It was like that when I got here.'"

"Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda."

"Step aside everyone! Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'"

"Don't let Krusty's death get you down, boy. People die all the time. Just like that. Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow. Well, good night."

"Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get."

"Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else - and it hasn't - it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such."

"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."

"Stealing! How could you? Haven't you learned anything from that guy who gives those sermons at church? Captain whats-his-name? We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughin', did you?"

"Television - teacher, mother, secret lover!"

"Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'sir' without adding, 'you're making a scene.'"

THINGS TO PONDER.......

If a deaf person swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

Is there another word for synonym?

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?

Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?"

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?

If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?

Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

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