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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet leaves on the heel that crushes it.

Mark Twain

Will power is eating just one salted peanut.

Unknown

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can get yourself back.

Mick Jagger

Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead.

Anon

Always think before you speak, especially if what you are going to say is exactally what you think.

Unknown

Simply because we are licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Atticus Finch. To Kill A Mockingbird

Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye.

George M. Cohan

Strange how much you have to know before you know how little you know.

Anon

No matter what anybody tells you, you can never have too much sugar.

John Travolta in "Micheal"

Life is like the mail, sometimes you just don't get it.

Anon

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disapear and life stands explained.

Mark Twain

All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by frost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jeff Raskin

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

David Starr Jordan

A friend is someone you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself.

Burrow

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

Groucho Marx

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

Lee Mildon

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

(carved on the wood mantel in Henry Ford's home)

You never really leave a place you love - part of it you take with you - leaving a part of yourself behind. 
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Noelie Altito

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

George Burns

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

Jasper Carrott

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Winston Churchill

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Bill Cosby

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Paul Fox

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Alfred Hitchcock

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Kin Hubbard

March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.

Garrison Keillor

Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

In the beginning, there was nothing. Then God said "Let there be light," and there was still nothing, but you could see it.

Dave Thomas

Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
"There has fallen a splendid tear

"From the passion-flower by the gate.

"She is comming, my dove, my dear;

"She is comming, my life, my fate;

"The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near',

"And the white rose weeps, 'She is late',

"The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear',

"And the lily whispers, 'I wait.'"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening.

James Dickey

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You won't live forever. Don't wait.

Natalie Goldberg

Some people are so special that once they enter your life, it becomes richer and fuller and more wonderful than you ever thought it could be.
If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't come back, it was never meant to be.
Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense. There is nothing love cannot face;there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and endurace. In a word, there are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love.

1 Corinthians 13

For all the times I never said the things I should have, I thank you for all the times you understood.

Flavia Weedn

Favorite people, favorite places, favorite memories of the past...These are the joys of a lifetime...these are the things that last.
We see those we love in every sunrise and in every sunset, in ever tree and in every flower.
I dreamed a dream of you...it was sweet while it lasted...

First Knight

I dreampt a dream tonight.

So did I.

And what was yours?

That dreamers often lie.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Her eyes, like windows, trickling rain.

Upon her pain, getting deeper.

Though my love wants to relieve her.

She walks alone from wall to wall.

Lost in a hall.

Saying goodbye, why is it said?

Makes us remember the good times we've had.

Much more to say, foolish to try.

It's the time for saying goodbye.

Somehow I know we'll meet again.

Not quite sure how and I don't know just when.

You're in my heart, so until then,

it's time for saying goodbye.

Once I had a little game, I like to crawl back in my brain. I think you know the game I mean...I mean the game called 'go insane'. Now you should try this little game, just close your eyes, forget your name. Forget the world, forget the people, and we'll erect a different steeple. This little game is fun to do, just close your eyes, no way to lose. And I'm right here, I'm going, too. Release control, we're breaking through. Way back deep into the brain...way back past the realm of pain...back where there's never any rain.

Jim Morrison from "Celebration of the Lizard"

I drink to make other people interesting.

George Jean Nathan

Suppose you were an idiot...And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself.

MarkTwain

Have you ever noticed....Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

George Carlin

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

Ellen DeGeneris

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

Carol Leifer

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

Jackie Gleason

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?"

Jay Leno

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

Roger Simon

If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

George Gobel

Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.

Billiam Coronel

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Oscar Wilde

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.

Dave Barry

I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be true. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.

Jeff Stilson

Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.

Sue Murphy

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Lily Tomlin

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?

Rita Rudner

Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.

Jerry Seinfeld

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner.

Lynda Montgomery

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

Lily Tomlin

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'

Richard Jeni

The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay; Love isn't love until you give it away.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk forever in my beautiful garden.
Give me a whisper, give me a sigh,

give me a kiss before you tell me goodbye;

And please remember, that I never lied.

and please remember how i felt inside.

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, but somewhere in the middle we've become the best of friends.
After my picture fades and darkness has Turned to gray

Watching through windows--you're wondering If I'm okay

Secrets stolen from deep inside

The drum beats out of time-

"Time After Time"

You can tell your dog to bite my leg.

Don Von Tress "Achy Breaky Heart"

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

And if I had my chance, I could make those people dance, and maybe they'd be happy for awhile.

Don McLean, "Miss American Pie"

The three men I admired most: the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost; They caught the last train for the coast, the day the music died.

Don McLean, "Miss American Pie"

I believe in God like I believe in the sun. Not just because I see it, but because by it, I see everything.

C.S. Lewis

A friend hears the song of my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
We started out as total strangers and ended as lifelong friends, we shared a season of our lives, but every season has to end.
Promise you won't forget about me, because if I thought you would, I would never leave.
Memories build a pathway that goes winding through the heart. It keeps friends close together, even when they're far apart.
Your life lies before you like freshly fallen snow. Be careful where you step, for every step will show.
Life is like a bicycle: You don't fall off until you stop peddling.
I'm on top of the world and affraid of heights.
Life is a stepping stone into eternity, so watch your step.
I'm not beautiful, intelligent, or clever, but I am happy and I intend to stay that way.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Dreams are like rainbows: always within sight but not always withing reach.
It is often hard to bear tears that we ourselves have caused.
A good-bye is only painful if you know you will never say hello again.
The hardest thing in the world is having to spend every day so close to someone you know you can never really be close to.
If everything I said make you smile, I'd talk forever.
Don't cry when the sun is gone because the tears won't let you see the stars.
There is so much good in the worst of us

and so much bad in the best of us

that it ill behooves any of us

to talk about the rest of us

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Snoopy

As far as Clinton supposedly cheating on his wife, what do people think he's going to do? Be president of another country while he's president of ours?

Tom R., age 12

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes. (translation: If you can read this you're overeducated)
Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are God.

Jean Rostand

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Norm Crosby

If I wanted you to know what I was thinking, I would be talking to you.

Al Bundy

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

George Carlin

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...

Longfellow

People tend to pass you over just 'cause you don't stand out like flashy sparkles of water, or stars in the sky.

Kermit the Frog

Have you ever been so bored that you would have accepted a collect call from Satan?

Anon

Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Everyone needs believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.
Reality - what a concept!
Dead people are cool!
A dream is a lie, if you let it die.
Why can't we just get together all the people in the world that we really like? And then stay together? I guess that wouldn't work though. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. And then we'd have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
Everything has beauty, but not everybody sees it.
Every shadow points to the sun.
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
A day of worry is more exhausting then a week of work.
We die a thousand deaths before we ever get in trouble.

Bill Watterson

WE are the music makers, and WE are the dreamers of dreams.

Willy Wonka

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.
Sometime you have to let go of the one you love to find out if there was ever something there to hold on to.
You have to walk carefully in the beginnig of love; the running across fields into your lovers arms can only come later when your sure they won't laugh if you trip.
If you love someone enough, you can still hear their laughter when they're gone.
Remember, just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them too, doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got.
She loved him all her life, and when she thought he might die she tied her wrist to his at night so that his pulse would not flutter away from her suddenly and leave her stranded.
The difficuty is not to die for a friend, but to find a friend worth dying for.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.
Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct has committed another mistake.
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Strong words are required for weak principles.
There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.

"Runaway Bride"

The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.
Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
The most courages decision you make each day is the decision to be in a good mood.

Voltaire

Now this is not the end. It is not even the begining of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the begining.

Winston Churchill

It is better to be alone than in the wrong company.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road... Unless you fail to make the turn.
Most people are willing to change, not because they see the light, but because they feel the heat.
The best things in life are nearest : Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet,duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
Ideals are like stars,

You will not succeed in touching them with your hands.

But like the seafaring men on the desert of waters,

You choose them as your guides,

And following them you will reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

W. H. Auden

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. LeGuin

I find the question "WHY ARE WE HERE?" typically human. I'd suggest "ARE WE HERE?" would be the more logical choice.

Star Trek

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walker

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Harriet Martineau

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

Do you think there's some town in, like, Missouri called "Sample"? And as you're driving through it, there's this sign: "You're in Sample."

Chandler, Friends

I'm Nobody! Who are you? / Are you -- Nobody -- too? / Then there's a pair of us? / Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!

Emily Dickinson

A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.

Ecclesiasticus 6:14

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see...

Thoreau

It is better to burn out than fade away.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Robert Frost

Risk more than others think is safe, care more than others think is wise, dream more than others think is practicle, and expect more than others think is possible.

Cadet Maxim

Hope is watching the sun set and believing it will rise again.

Celina Gomes

Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries.

Life gives up and life tries.

But life looks different through everyone's eyes.

Dreams are the answers to the questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask.
Laughter is the shock absorber of life.
People always say you should be yourself, like yourself is this definate thing, like a toaster or something. Like you know what it is even. But every so often, I'll have a moment where being myself, and my life right where I am is enough.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need...roads.
When a defining moment comes along, you can either define the moment or the moment can define you.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you might miss it.
I'd agree with you if you were right.
Men should be like Kleenex- soft, strong, and disposable.
Searching for a boy in high school is like searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.
"What's wrong Abby?" "Nothing a rooftop and an AK-47 won't take care of."
The key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. You fake a stomach cramp, and when you're bent over moaning and wailing, you lick your palms. It's a little childish and stupid, but then- so is high school.
Search down deep in your soul and think of your worst nightmare... And that won't even come close to him when he gets pissed.
Everybody loves you. Pisses me off.
What the American public doesn't know, is exactly what makes them the American public.
The best things in life aren't things.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it's letting go.
The trouble with the world is that we care more about "keeping up with the Jones's" than we care about the Jones's.
We often see further through a tear, than through a telescope.
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to the brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop. And I'm gone.
This sucks more than anything that's ever sucked before.
At the time you don't think much of it, you know, we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives. Back then I thought, "There'll be other days..." I didn't realize that was the only day.
Why do I get the feeling that someday I'll be describing this to a phychiatrist?
If you do a job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
When you fall on somebody, it's not enough to say you didn't mean to. After all, he probably didn't mean to be underneath you.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Love is like a bird. When you least expect it, it craps on your face.
A boy may turn a girl's head, but it takes a man to turn her heart!
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a hot guy for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put the boogers.
To let a fool kiss you is stupid, but to let a kiss fool you is even worse.
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
No one really listens to anyone else. Try it for a while and you'll see why.
Another person's secret is like another person's money: you are not as careful with it as you are with your own.
Never try to make anyone like yourself-you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
Frustration is not having anyone to blame but yourself.
A friend is one whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
I'd rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.
With friends like you, who needs more friends?
The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.
If we judge love by it's usual affects, it's more like hatred than friendship.
All love that has not friendship for it's base is like a mansion built upon the sand.
I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem.
The weather is here. Wish you were beautiful.
Buildings burn; people die; but true love lasts forever.
Lead me not into temptation, I can find it myself.
Don't piss me off...I'm running out of places to hide the bodies.
My honor student fired your stupid kid.
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
There's nothing people like better than being asked a easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is and we can tell him.
When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.
Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
Often the best thing about not saying anything is that it cannot be repeated.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Be a fountain, not a drain.
America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well pleased.
Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
The dead take to the grave, clutched in their hands, only what they have given away.
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.
The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to prove my notions, have only wasted my time.
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it.
When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember the fire department usually uses water.
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to begin as soon as possible.
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me you bring out.
Say the best, think the rest.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
I became a yearbook photographer because I liked the idea that I could sort of watch life without having to be part of it. But when you're a yearbook photographer, you're, like, never in the picture.

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