"Animals are crapping in our houses and we're cleaning it up! Did we lose a war? Thats not America. Thats not even Mexico." -Homer Simpson

"Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow" -Homer Simpson

"Well, a question ain't really a question if you know the answer too." -John Prine

And before you abuse, criticize, and accuse, walk a mile in my shoes. --Joe South

I may never be happy, but for now I am content. --Sylvia Plath

Juventud, divino tesoro, ya te vas para no volver! Cuando quiero llorar, no lloro, y a veces lloro sin querer. --Ruben Dario
(Translation: Youth, divine treasure, you have gone and will not return! When I want to cry, I don't cry, and sometimes I cry without wanting. {I guess it's true when they say it loses something in the translation!})

Life is brief and fragile. Do that which makes you happy.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. --Jane Howard

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde, from "Lay Windermere's Fan

"When in doubt...communicate!" L. Ron Hubbard

You are the person who has to decide.
Whether you'll do it or toss it aside;
You are the person who makes up your mind.
Whether you'll lead or will linger behind.
Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar.
Or just be contented to stay where you are.
-- Edgar A. Guest

Be nice to people on the way up, because you never know when you might meet
them on the way down.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or
of races, but the happiness of the common man. - William Henry Beveridge

The fear of war is worse than war itself. - Seneca

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and
don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the
endless immensity of the sea."

---Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich -- Napolean

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
Anon.

Every flower must grow through dirt.
Anon.

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave thier hearts behind.
Betty Bender

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley

"All men desire peace,but very few desire those things that make for peace."
-Thomas a Kempis

"Fear drives you and makes you better."
-- Donna Shalala

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker

Beautiful young people are acts of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.

If someone betrays you once, it's his fault;
if he betrays you twice, it's your fault.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested."
--Rovert J. Sawyer

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway. - unknown

Credit cards are like mosquitoes.
You can keep them away for a while, but sooner or later they will be back to suck your blood. - Ted Steckley

All would live long but none would be old. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. - John Florio (1553-1625)

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. - unknown

"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of
courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for
this."

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Spanish writer

"What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that
is merely rich and powerful? It is the simple things that make the
difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self-respect, and
the courage of conviction."

David L(yle) Boren (b. 1941)
American politician, Governor of OK

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821)
French general, Napoleon I of France

Life is the greatest bargain; we get it for nothing.- Yiddish

Love in it's truest form has no language or words,
it just has a thousand and one actions
we all wish we could describe.
- Kenneth B. Emery -

We make war that we may live in peace -- Aristotle

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you
don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
-- Sir James M. Barrie

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends
listen to what you don't say.

There are three kinds of liars...men, women, and statistics!
--College Economics Professor

"The entire secret of success with your emotions is this:

You feel good not because the world is right, but your
world is right because you feel good."

"You know the world is going crazy when the best
rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy,
France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany
doesn't want to go to war."

Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone. - Horace (65-8 BC)

My grandmother used to say ~ "Men are like shadows...chase after them and
they will run away. But if you act standoffish, as if you couldn't care less,
they come after you."

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
------Henry Ford

"I shall pass through this
world but once. Any good
therefore that I can do
or any kindness that I can
show to any human being,
let me do it now. Let me
not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this
way again."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi ~~

"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us,
that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us."
– Robert Louis Stevenson

A generation ago, a motto was placed on the walls of many homes. It read
simply:
Fear knocked at the door
Faith answered
There was no one there.

"If you say my eyes are beautiful, It's because they're looking at you"

Whitney Houston
Song´s name: If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful

"Not to decide is to decide"
Harvey Cox

Don't settle for the one you can live with, wait for the one
you can't live without
--- Anon

F.E.A.R. acronym
False Evidence Appearing Real
And F*** Everything And Run

"It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.'" -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy." -- George Horace Lormier

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
--William M. Thackeray

"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas."
--Anon.

FEAR = Forgetting Everything is All Right

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you
aren't. - Margaret Thatcher

The husband is the head of the family; the wife is the neck. And the neck
turns the head.

It is better to entretain an idea than to take it home to live with you for
the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell

"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 Nervil

"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 heart." -Buddha

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. -- James Joyce The Dead

Too bad that all the people who know
how to run the country are busy
driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns, quoted in Life

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-- Douglas Adams

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page."
--Saint Augustine

The hardest things in life....
are the best things in life....
-- Kirk McKee

"Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures"
-- Percy Wells Cerutty

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do...so...Explore. Dream.
Discover."
-- Mark Twain

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
~ Golda Meir

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
~ George Burns

Always forgive your enemies -- Nothing annoys them so much.
~ Oscar Wilde

* "Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt

". . . trust yourself when all men doubt you / But make allowance for their doubting too."
--Rudyard Kipling

"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too
short for those who rejoice, but for those who love , time is eternity.
Henry VanDyke

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is
that good news?"

-- Douglas Adams

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not
have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave
me."
Erma Bombeck

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
- Lisa Hoffman -

"It's one thing to say you believe in something,
but so much more to prove it."
~~~Bob Perks

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that
the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking.
If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
- Andy Rooney

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.

But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty
and so is your head.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a
song.

- Maya Angelou

"A friend is someone who asks how you are, and actually listens to your
answer."

"A friend is someone who can see the truth and the pain in you, even when
you are fooling everyone else."

100 memories, 200 jokes, 300 great times, 400 secrets 1 reason.. *BESTFRIENDS*

"The friends who grew up with you deserve a special respect. The ones who
stuck by you shoulder to shoulder, in a time where nothing was certain, all
life lay ahead, and every road led home." - The Wonder Years

"Best friends hang tough. They don’t come with ‘Fragile’ stickers and are
not easily scared off, or ticked off. Best friends help you out whenever
they can, make time for you even when they don’t have any, and trust your
friendship enough to say ‘no’. Best friends are
cross-your-heart-and-hope-to-die, good-times-and-bad-times, borrow-anything,
tell-you-everything, trust-you-with-their-deepest-darkest-secrets,
always-and-forever friends."

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is
someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French
fries without making them give you any of theirs."

"Life is not holding a good hand. Life is playing a poor hand well."
--Danish Proverb

Waiting for circumstances to change so you can feel good is like looking in a mirror waiting for your reflection to smile first."
~Bashar

If you aren't happy, you aren't really living. People say you should
judge whether or not you're alive by whether or not you're breathing,
but I disagree with that. I think, in order to judge if you are truly
alive, you must look at the moments in your life that have taken your
breath away.
~ Michele Metych

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of
the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the
strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits,
that is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you."
--John E. Southard

"Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly
does."
-- Douglas Adams

"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters,
your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame
anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault.
But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to
change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as
simple as that, isn't it?"
...... Katherine Hepburn

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows
you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to
try new things.The saddest summary of a life
contains three descriptions:could have, might
have, and should have.
- Louis E. Boone

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."

---Arnold H. Glasow