Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Garriga]

"Nineteen is the age where you say Look out, world, I’m smokin’ TNT and I’m drinkin’ dynamite, so if ya know what’s good for ya, get out of my way-here comes Stevie.”

[blunthead]

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
--Woody Allen

[Becks19]

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
- Henry Ward Beecher

[Spideyman]

John Lennon -- Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

[blunthead]

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
- Saint Augustine

[Becks19]

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

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Adams

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Some men are great, and some men have greatness thrust upon them..."

-Under The Dome

[CorbinKale]

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

R.A. Heinlein

[Sigmund]

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. ~Author Unknown

[blunthead]

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. ~Author Unknown

Thank you, Siggy. Good words.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
- John Ruskin