Quotes

"You don't lose by loving, you lose by holding back"

"It's not telling you how I feel that scares me, it's what you will sayback."

"Don't be afraid to be yourself, be afraid not to."

"You have to dance like no one's watching and love like it's never gonna hurt."

"If you don't understand my silence, you won't understand my words."

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world."

(Quotes above submitted by Lisa)

"Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love it would be utterly scorned."
"The loneliest place in the world is the human heart when love is absent."
"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate- it's apathy."
"It is better to have loved and lost than not to love at all."
"I am not one of those who do not believe in love at first sight, but I believe in taking a second look."
"Sometimes the one thing you are looking for; Is the one thing you can't see."
"It is better to be hated for what you are then to be loved for what you're not"
"Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes."
"Anytime not spent in love is wasted."
"Absence does for love what the wind does for a flame: it extinguishes the weak, and feeds the strong"
"To be able to say how much you love is to love but little."
"If you never get your heart broken, you'll never learn to love." "Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, Remember this terse little verse; To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss fool you is worse."
"Friends are family you choose for yourself."
"The best mirror is an old friend."
"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad."
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." "It is better to be alone than in bad company."
"A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out you cannot catch it."
"When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice."
"Common sense is very uncommon."
"If it is the truth what does it matter who says it?"
"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."
"The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent; it is the man without a dream."
"Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still."
"The heart that loves is always young."
"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends."
"The message of dawn is hope."
"Some people grumble that roses have thorns. I am thankful thorns have roses."
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."
"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
"Of all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been."
"The dew of compassion is a tear."
"That which you cannot give away, you do not possess. It possesses you."
"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
"One kind word can warm three winter months."
"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."
"On the sands of life sorrow treads heavily, and leaves a print time cannot wash away."
"Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness."
"Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."
"Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened."
"When you have nothing left but love it's then you realize it's all you need."
"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
"Yes, loving is a painful thrill And not to love more painful still; But oh, it is the worst of pain, To love and not be lov'd again. "Be yourself. Everyone else is taken."
"Love is like quicksand--the deeper you fall in the harder it is to get out"
"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are threeother people."
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool."
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our reallife."
"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."
"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title."
"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
'It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of people.'
"The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed."
"I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking."
"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."
"I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.
"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."
"I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them."
"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior."
"Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music."
"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."
"When the sun comes up, I have morals again."
"Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!"
"In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted."
"The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience."
"Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair."
"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."
"I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it."
"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
"You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did."
"Sanity is a cozy lie."
"A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows."
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth."
"I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want." "Be polite to all, but intimate with few."
"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bitsimpler."
"Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little."
"Take what you can use and let the rest go by."
"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child."
"Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do."
"Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive."
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.
While hunting in Africa, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know.
"We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent."
"Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?"
"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
"If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it."

"Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool."
"In America, sex is an obsession; in other parts of the world it's a fact."
"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."
"Women's virtue is man's greatest invention."
"The world wants to be cheated. So cheat."
"I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child."
"All the world's a cage." "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."
"There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness."
"Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream."
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
"Everything you can imagine is real."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge...."