Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Becks19]

How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.
- Woody Allen

To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ; and to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors- these are little guideposts on the footpath to peace.
- Henry Van Dyke

I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.
- Michel de Montaigne

They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.
- Adlai Stevenson

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius

[randallFlaggfan1]

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Very nice, Haunted. Thank you.


“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
— Langston Hughes

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”

-Judith Viorst, Love & Guilt & The Meaning Of Life, Etc.

[cat in a bag]

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”

-Judith Viorst, Love & Guilt & The Meaning Of Life, Etc.

Hmmm, I'm definitely not strong then.

[randallFlaggfan1]

Hmmm, I'm definitely not strong then.

Neither am I, Cat!

[Haunted]

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln

[J.T. Adams]

'Be great in act, as you have been in thought.'

- William Shakespeare

[randallFlaggfan1]

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

-George Eliot, Middlemarch

[blunthead]

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
--George Ade

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
--Ansel Adams

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
--Edward Gibbon

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
--Steven Wright

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
--George Eliot

[Haunted]

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi