Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Haunted]

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
~ George Bernard Shaw

[blurbol]

Miss oh so young and pretty!

[fljoe0]

SPORTS QUOTES

“We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.” – Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks.

“I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn’t spell it.”
-Boxing great Rocky Graziano

“The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.”
Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series.

Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh: “I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.”

Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player: “I told him, ‘Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?’ He said, ‘Coach, I don’t know and I don’t care.’”

"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won."—Muhammad Ali

"Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious."—N.C. State basketball player Charles Shackleford

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf."—Pitcher Tug McGraw, asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf.

[blunthead]

Stupid Quotes vol 4...

"We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally." --Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister

"I cannot tell you how grateful I am -- I am filled with humidity." --Gib Lewis, speaker of the Texas House

"And now, will y'all stand and be recognized." --Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House, to a group of people in wheelchairs on Disability Day

"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." --Charles De Gaulle, former French President

"I'm someone who has a deep emotional attachment to Starsky and Hutch." --Bill Clinton, former U.S. President

"Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway." --Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane.

"I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple." --Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President when asked about his illegal fund-raising activities that took place in a Buddhist temple.

"Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything." --Ivana Trump, on finishing her first novel

"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding." --Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons

"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." --Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

[Sigmund]

JohnLennon Quotes

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"


"Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep."

"Everything is clearer when you're in love."

"It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that--it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown--then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?"

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

[Haunted]

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~ C.S. Lewis

[Petrollika]

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[blunthead]

Rodney Dangerfield vol 1...

A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

[Becks19]

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.
- William Congreve

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
- Ethel Barrymore

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.
- Edward McCabe

We do not write as we want, but as we can.
- W Somerset Maugham


Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!
- Anne Frank

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never; in a word to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
- William Ellery Channing

[Sigmund]

The healthiest response to life is joy.
Deepak Chopra


The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Chinese Proverb


What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison


Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens


Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein