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Life & Living
Life Quotes
"A man just can't sit around." ~ Larry Walters, the lawn chair pilot.
"Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day." ~ Jay Leno
"It is a short step from a careless phrase to a flash of insight." ~ A.N. Whitehead
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." ~ Bill Cosby
"Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does!" ~ Richard Exely
"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." ~ Author Unknown
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
"What I want is all the power and none of the responsibility" ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences." ~ Robert G Ingersoll (1833 - 1899), Author, Attorney
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody" ~ Bill Cosby
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." ~ Ursula K. LeGuin
"If I ignore the future, maybe it will go away" ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
"Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." ~ Charlotte Whitton
"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy - and I keep it in a jar on my desk." ~ Stephen King
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada." ~ Britney Spears, Singer
"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to the office." ~ Robert Frost (1874-1963).
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." ~ Henry Ford (1863-1947), Industrialist
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." ~ Paul Ehrlich.
"Don't let life discourage you. Everyone who got where he is, had to begin where he was." ~ Richard L. Evans
"The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those who have not got it." ~ G. B. Shaw
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." ~ A. Whitney Brown
"Control your destiny or somebody else will." ~ Jack Welsh
"I hope I'm not waiting here for someone who's waiting for me somewhere else" ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it" ~ Soren Kierkegaard
"Continuous effort- not strength or intelligence- is the key to unlocking our potential." ~ Winston Churchill
"To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations" ~ William Haslitt, author.
"I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts" ~ Oscar Wilde
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present." ~ Golda Meir
"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance." ~ Goethe
"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." ~ Andre Gide
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." ~ Robert Frost
"Conquer yourself, not the world." ~ René Descartes
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time" ~ Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"The quality of the magazines in the waiting room is inversely proportional to the time you have to wait to see the doctor." ~Geoffrey K. Braden
"There's nothing like wealth for dulling desire" - Barry McGuigan, Boxer
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory" ~ Albert Schweitzer
"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data" ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The reason why worry kills more people than work, is that more people worry than work." ~ Robert Frost (1874-1963) Poet
"The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain" ~ Ronald Firbank, Novelist
"A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key" ~ Paul Valery, Poet
"There are known knowns, there are known unknowns. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know" ~ Donald Rumsfeld, Politician
"Travel light, and you can sing in the robber's face" ~ Juvenal, Roman satirist ~ Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the USA
"Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on" ~ Billy Connolly
"A neurosis is a secret you do not know you are keeping" ~ Kenneth Tynan, Theatre Critic
"I’m tired of all this nonsense, about beauty being only skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?" ~ Jean Kerr
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" ~ Plato
"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel." ~ Horace Walpole, writer
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." ~ Sir Winston Churchill
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." ~ Sir Winston Churchill
"Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?" ~ Author Unknown
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." ~ Ernest Hemingway
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away" ~ General Douglas Macarthur
"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have." ~ Kathleen A. Sutton
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises" ~ Demosthenes, Athenian Statesman
"If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change" ~ Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Writer
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity." ~ Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
"You learn more from failure, because failure hurts" ~ John Trent, Film Director
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." ~ James Dean, Actor
"The formula 'Two And Two Make Five' is not without its attractions" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Novelist
"The whole rock'n'roll thing is pretty over-rated. Take away the drugs and drink, and what's left?" ~ Chrissie Hynde, Musician
"Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live." ~ Jean de la Bruyere
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." ~ Harriet Braiker
"Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them." ~ Author unknown
"Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you recognise a mistake when you make it again." ~ F. P. Jones
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself." ~ Alfred Sheinwold
"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific." ~ Jane Wagner
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." ~ Beverly Sills
"No day is so bad that it cannot be fixed by a good nap." - Carrie Snow
"I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem." ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~ Theodore Giesel (Dr. Suess)
"All mankind is divided into three classes; those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."~ Benjamin Franklin
"Drama is Life with the dull bits left out" ~ Alfred Hitchcock, Film director
"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts." ~ William Hazlitt
"A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults." ~ Louis Nizer
"Better to be silent and be thought a fool, then to speak out and remove all doubt" ~ Abraham Lincoln
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them" ~ Ann Landers 1918-2002, Advice Columnist
"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3." ~ Alice Kahn
"Sometimes you have to look reality in the face and deny it. " ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~ Sir Winston Churchill
"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose." ~ Darrin Weinberg, actor.
"I am just going outside, and may be some time" ~ Captain Lawrence 'Titus' Oates, before walking out to die, near the South Pole
"The clever people never listen, And the stupid people never talk" ~ Oscar Wilde
"For God's Sake look after our people" ~ Captain Robert Falcon Scott's last diary entry, twelve days later.
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." ~ Nelson Mandela
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." ~ Beverly Sills