WORDS OF WISDOM

A SMALL COLLECTION OF

INTERESTING QUOTES
 

"Most people want to get into heaven, though few are willing to do what it takes to get there." -- Bill Watterson "Calvin and Hobbes"

"If we heal the inside, the outside will heal itself." -- Louie Anderson

"Many people will walk in and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your  heart." -- unknown

"Not all truthful words are beautiful, not all beautiful words truthful." -- ancient Chinese Proverb

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

"Any day you've learned something is not a day wasted." -- David Eddings, King of the Murgos

"We are all allowed to make mistakes in life, it's called 'Learning'!"

-- Charlie Sheen "Hot Shots Part Duex"

"life without love isn't a life at all, but meerly an existance; and a sad, pityful one at that." -- link

"the hardest part of loving someone is knowing when to let go." -- uncertain

"those that try, will never truly fail." -- link

"base not your joy upon the deeds of others, for what is given can be taken away." -- uncertain

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own." -- Michael Konda

"He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead." -- anonymous

"Life's a bitch, get her some Pamprin!" -- crane

"God, God, why did you put so many assholes in the world at the same time?" -- Major Santini

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." -- Italian Proverb

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." --Bertrand Russell

"Anyone can escape into skeep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there." -- E. M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

"Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs." -- anonymous

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."

-- Harry Firestone

"Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift."
-- unknown

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -- Goethe

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look once in a while, you could miss it." -- Ferris Bueller, "Ferris Beuller's Day Off"

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." -- anonymous

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and i . . . i took out a chainsaw, screamed, 'To Hell with it all!!!!', and made my own path." -- link

"To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart." -- unknown

"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." -- Buddha

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke

"If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If it's marketed right, you'll buy it, but. . . If it's real you'll fell it." -- Kid Rock

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not" - Goerge Bernard Shaw

"Learn from the mistakes of others;
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." -- unknown

"Is all that we see or seem, but a dream within a dream?" -- Edger Allen Poe

"He who stands on toilet seat is high on pot." -- stik

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

-- William Shakespeare

"'it's always calm before the storm', 'into every life a little rain must fall', 'a frown is only a smile that got turned upside down after a storm of tears', but 'every cloud has a silver lining'." -- link

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." -- Buddha

"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy." -- anonymous

"Hey Mr. PUff'n Stuff, if you ain't puff'n then you ain't puff'n enough." -- not sure

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."

-- Elbert Hubbard

"I have great faith in fools - self confidence my friends call it" -- Edgar Allen Poe

"Never frown you never know who's falling in love with your smile." -- anonymous

"So many assholes, so few bullets." -- Dirty Harry

"Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people." -- unknown

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." -- Muhammad Ali

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same." -- Norman Mailer, The Deer Park

"Only dead fish swim with the current." -- crane

"He who loses money, loses much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more;
He who loses faith, loses all." -- unknown

"I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string." -- Scott Adams

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" -- Emiliano Zapata

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."

-- Swedish Proverb

"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." -- anonymous

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -- Gandhi

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were" -- Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -- Buddha

"The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": (1) fighting; (2) fleeing; (3) feeding; and uh... (4) mating." -- an unnamed professor in a neuropsychology intro course

"All life is an experiment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I do not believe in a fat that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." -- uncertain

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead." -- anonymous

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

-- Robert Frost

"There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature." -- Stephen Stills

"The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence." -- Albert Ellis

"The best proof of love is trust." -- Joyce Brothers

"Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." -- Duke Lito Artreides, "Dune"

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." -- Carl Sagan

"What is done cannot be undone." -- Shakespeare

"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain." -- uncertain

"If anything comes easy to me, I mistrust it." -- Lili Palmer

"Anger is only one letter short of danger." -- unknown

"Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!"

-- H.R. Haldeman
 
 

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