note: for just a whole big bunch of really really great quotes, i would encourage you to check out what is in my opinion one of the greatest poetic anthologies ever compiled. it is entitled come love with me and be my life: the complete romantic poetry of peter mcwilliams. of course, the author is peter mcwilliams (just in case you're stupid and didn't quite catch on.....). check it out- it rocks.

"nadie comprende lo que sufro yo."

-linda ronstadt, a song called 'perfidia'

"things are only impossible until they are not."

-captain jean luc picard, aka patrick stewart, star trek

"consistency is the last refuge of the unoriginal"

-unknown

"there are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. both ways save us from thinking."

-alfred korzybski

"just wait 'til that first time you get sick and your mom's not here to help you- you'll be crying your balls out."

-marcus t carroll

"if we ran over everyone who walked down the middle of the road, the world would be a smarter place."

-tiffany kondrup

"it was the greatest cancer in the world..."

-crystal doty

"i loved, which was purgatory. i lost, which was hell. and i survived. heaven."

-peter mcwilliams

"there was a time when i didn't know you...and i didn't miss you then at all"

-merrit malloy

"some day, at critical moments, i'm going to learn to keep my mouth shut."

-peter mcwilliams

"women are nothing but trouble"

-marcus t carroll

"...and men are nothing but stupid"

-derekrodrigues

"i'm so glad i'm impotent"

-cecil biggerstaff

"never question quantity"

-marcus t carroll

"it is better to live alone than die at loves hands"

-anonymous

"the hardest thing to imagine is that which we know exists."

-anonymous

"tradition is the living faith of the dead. traditionalism is the dead faith of the living."

-unknown

"don't marry the person you think you can live with. marry the person you can't live without."

-unknown

"faith is not an effort, a striving, a ceaseless seeking...but rather a letting go, an abandonment, an abiding rest in God that nothing, not even a soul's shortcomings, can disturb."

-unknown

"...reason does not rule in love..."

-'alceste,' moliere's "the misanthrope"

"there is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear."

-2 john 18

"never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you."

-gustav holst

"de gustibus non disputandum est."

-horace

"flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impractibility."

-unknown

"who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"

-matthew 6:25-27

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