All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
- Lucy, Peanuts

"What language do you speak?"
"I got a brother who's stupid so I'm fluent in dumbass."
--Mad TV

"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."

--Jim Carrey

I've learned that you can't make someone love you. All you can do is stalk her and hope that she panics and gives in.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself....If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct; and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight
- Leonardo da Vinci

"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."

"There's an amino acid in the penis that makes men evil."

Becky?
3.17 (64) "The Spy Who Said He Loved Me"

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
-- Jane Wagner

All our lives we've been told that a picture says more than a thousand words. Three words are proof that we've been seriously misled. "I Love You."

"How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?”
-- Michael Josephson, 20th/21st-century American ethicist

It is not that we don't know the right answers,
it is just that we don't ask the right questions.
--- Tony Robbins ---

"A man lives by believing in something, not by debating and arguing about many things."
---Thomas Carlyle

Man is the head of the family,
woman the neck that turns the head.

--Chinese Proverb

"This is not the end. This is not even the beginning
of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the
beginning."

WINSTON CHURCHILL, on Britain's entering the 2nd world
war.

keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must
see the world.
-George Bernard Shaw

"No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and
see the possibilities, always see them, for they're always there."

"Blessed are those who expect little, They are seldom disappointed."
Mystery Writer Tony Hillerman, quoting his mother.

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely
the most important." -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong,
than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes
longer." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in
the world." -Helen Keller

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable
but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
--- George Bernard Shaw

"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are
not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the
weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less
prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs
that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are
measured by these." -Susan B. Anthony

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized
anyway. You'll be damned if you do, damned if you don't." -Eleanor
Roosevelt

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail
better." -Samuel Beckett

"If joy makes life beautiful, sorrow lets you know how beautiful life is"

"Tears are like rain, they loosen up our soil so we can grow in diffrent directions"

"Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems dispopulated"

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'" -Ann Landers

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble."-Arabic Parable

I wanted a perfect ending... Now I've learned the hard way, that some poems
don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the
best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. - Gilda Radner

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." -W. H.
Auden

"The most damaging phrase in
the language is, "It's always
been done that way"."

*Admiral Grace Hopper
(1906-1992)

"There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am," and those who come into a room and say, "Ah, there you are."

Frederick Collins

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Harold Whitman

"Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way."

Nikita Koloff

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
-- Robert Brault

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of
their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of
these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the
only trustworthy one is the last.
~~John Ruskin

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our
courage and strength.
-- Anonymous

I'm often disturbed by the notion of the so-called glass ceiling, but you know, glass can be broken. I've never liked hearing people say, "You can't do this" or "You can't do that." The point, though, is not to just say [you can do it]. It's important to be prepared to act and sacrifice; to accept that if this is what you want, just wishing it would happen is not enough. You've got to follow through and take the necessary steps to make it happen.
~~ Reginald F. Lewis (1942-1993), legendary Wall Street financier who completed the landmark $985 million acquisition of Beatrice International Foods in 1987. TLC Beatrice International remains the only black owned company to break the billion-dollar mark in annual revenues peaking at $2.2 billion in 1996.

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
- Douglas Adams

"The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any
chances.
Julia Sorel

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
Sidney J. Harris

First you travel to lose yourself; and then you travel
to find yourself.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength:
one is pushing down,
the other is pulling up.

* Booker T. Washington

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever... -Isak Dinesen

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Alfred D. Souza

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge at you because you are a vegetarian. -Shari R.Barr

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. -George Washington Carver

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.
-- Christian Morgenstern

"I wish parents would understand that if their child drops eight fly balls one day, then only drops six the next, that's a reason to go to Dairy Queen. The principal thing is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before."

---Steve Young (Former quarterback - San Francisco 49ers)

"Sometimes, only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated."
"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."
- Hans Christian Andersen

Even the roughest seas an carry us to calmer waters.

Hope is the dream of the waking man.
Aristotle

"Whoever you are, there is some younger person
who thinks you are perfect.

There is some work that will never be done if
you don't do it.

There is someone who would miss you if you
were gone.

There is a place that you alone can fill."

- Jacob M. Braude

It's not that i am so smart;it's just that i stay with problems longer.
--Albert Einstein

Recipe for success:Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing;prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishiing.
--William A Ward

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover
when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's
mistakes. "

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."
D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)

"I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are
brave. "
E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

"Let no one who loves be unhappy. Even love unreturned has it's rainbow."
-James Matthew Barrie

"My tan is darker than ever, my implants are in place, chin cap tightly sewn
in place, Mom's bills are paid, even changed my name, ...my fake teeth are
glaring white, my dyed black hair is glistening, my snake like attitude and
behavior is in full gear...and I ask myself why can't I ever get a date?"

Older Gay Male Citizen, Watching Time Pass Him By Working In the Fabricated
Media Biz, 2004.

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive
characters are seared with scars."

---E. H. Chapin 1814-1880

"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."

--- Sheldon Kopp

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be. -Tom Landry

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and Then leap in the dark to our success.
–Henry David Thoreau

I have I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. -Rosa Parks

Determine that the thing can and shall be done,
And then we shall find the way – Abraham Lincoln

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious
xxxxx--Murphy's Corollaries

Fifth Law of Applied Terror:
xxxxIf you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
Corollary:
xxxxIf you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
xxxxx--Snoopy

There is so much good in the worst of us
and so much bad in the best of us
that it ill behooves any of us
to talk about the rest of us
xxxxx--Unknown, via my grandfather

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-John Greenleaf Whittier (poet; 1807-1892), Maud Muller

"Those who are a success have lived well,
laughed often and loved much ...
Who leave the world better than than found it ...
Who never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty ...
Who looked for the best in others
and gave the best they had."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg."
Chinese Proverb

"Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected oppurtunity." Arabian Proverb

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
Sir Winston Churchill

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection
or grief has humanized the soul.
Frederick Robertson

Nobody ever told me that grief felt so like fear. ~ C.S. Lewis

"Between grief and nothing I will take grief." ~ William Faulkner

No matter how far you have traveled in the wrong direction-- go back!

If work was good for you the rich would leave none for the poor.
Haitian proverb

"Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot." ~ Italian
Proverb

"The heart that loves is always young." ~ Greek Proverb

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

---Elbert Hubbard

Remember, you are the same today as you'll be in five years except
for two things: the people you meet and the books you read.
Choose both carefully.

-Charlie "Tremendous" Jones-

"I know my older sister loves me because she gives
me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy
new ones."

"Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it'll crush, hold it too loose,
it'll fly."
-- Unknown

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love? - Leo Buscaglia

The Tao Te Ching says, When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law. - Mary Manin Morrissey

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have
to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again
before we reach the mountaintop of our desires." -Nelson Mandela
(1918- )

This is on me.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), suggested for her tombstone

It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind
- SIR WALTER SCOTT