Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[LongTallSally]

'It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.'

e.e. cummings

[jacobtlong]

"There are two types of people in this world: People who are buttholes all the time and people who are buttholes some of the time. Which one are you?" - I came up with this quote with the help of a friend of mine when I was in my freshman year of high school.

[Todash]

How's the house construction going?

If you asked me last week I'd have babbled incoherently about the cost of plumbing fixtures and maybe ranted about paint colors, but I've readjusted my attitude and am a little more zen now. I think it's going to be great, unless the financing falls through; I had an unexpected salary cut at work, and my husband got laid off and had to find a new job—but no point in worrying about that, though. It is or it ain't, right?

[Srbo]

Only the highest mountains are attacked by the strongest winds.

-old Serbian proverb-

[Nutty Bavarian]

you're gonna love this one,
"Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called war." Mel Brooks

That's so true it's scary lol

[aptpupil]

"After the long slumber of ignorance, a single word can change a man forever."

Nan Guo Zi

Zhou Dynasty

[Sugar Marie]

"Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as fire is of light"

-Thomas Carlyle

[Kim L.]

From Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

PORTIA: The quality of mercy is not strain'd,

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:

[Kim L.]

We grow too soon old and too late smart. --German proverb

[aliphil]

if you got a headache grab a bottle of paracetomol and do what it says take two pills and keep away from children. this is a quote from my hubby