Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[kingzeppelin]

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.


Anon

[Spideyman]

“It’s too early. I never eat December snowflakes. I always wait until January.”
–Lucy as her friends eat new snowflakes

[Haunted]

"I know of but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery

[kingzeppelin]

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Bill Vaughan

[cat in a bag]

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

[kingzeppelin]

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Eric Zorn

[Haunted]

"The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head."

~Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788

[blunthead]

There comes a time when most folks see the big picture and realize they're puckered up not to kiss smiling fate on the mouth but because life just slipped them a pill, and it tastes bitter. - Stephen King, From A Buick 8

[blunthead]

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. - Stephen King

[cat in a bag]

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. - Stephen King

That one makes me laugh every time.