My Favorite Quotes

Here are some of my favorite quotes. They are from songs, movies, websites, TV shows, whatever. Enjoy. And there are a LOT :)

Forgive your enemies but remember thier names.
- JFK

What's so civil about war, anyway?
- W. Axl Rose, 1991

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
- Pat Conroy

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

The course of true love never did run smooth.
 - Shakespeare

`Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

You get nothing for nothing, if that's what you do.
Turn around B*tch, I got a use for you.
Besides, you ain't got nothing better to do.
AND I'M BORED!
- Guns 'N Roses

A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.
- Jim Morrison

I see you standing there.
You think you're so cool.
Well, why don't you just.....F*CK OFF!!
- Guns 'N Roses

No matter where you go, there you are.
- Oliver's law of location

Remember in this game we call life,
That no one said it's fair.
- W. Axl Rose

F.I.N.E.
F*cked up, Insecure, Neurotic, Emotional
- Aerosmith

K.I.S.S.
Keep It Simple, Stupid
- US Air Force

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Jim Morrison

Did you ever realize that $hit is a reoccuring phenomena?
- Oliver Laue

Take that one to Heart.
- Guns 'N Roses

So Close, No Matter How Far.
Couldn't Be Much More From The Heart.
Forever, Trusting Who We Are.
No, Nothing Else Matters.
- Metallica

Sweet lovely death
I've been waiting for your breath
Come sweet death, one last caress.
- Misfits

I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright

Go to hell because your wrong................lighten up people.....
- Shaun M. Hicks

With all the changing seasons of my life...
Maybe I'll get it right next time.
- W. Axl Rose

Half this game is ninety percent mental.
- Yogi Berra

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Remember, the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.
- Aerosmith

Thou shalt not tell bullshit.
- Oliver Laue

I'm only smiling because I have no idea what you're talking about.
- Lara-Elaine Koch

I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'
- Bruce Baum

I have six locks on my door, all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure, no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking 3.
- Elayne Boosier

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans suffers from some form of mentle illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are OK, than its you.
- Rita Mae Brown

I always wanted to be somebody but I should have been more specific.
- Lily Tomlin

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
-Dan Quayle

Faith, hope, and love....of these three....the greatest of these is love.
- Bible

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
- St. Augustine

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
- Amy Carmichael

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Red Aurbach

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
- Thomas Carlyle

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
 - George Orwell (1903-50)

The secret of being loved is being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.
- J.G.Holland

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
- Dr. O. A. Battista

I asked for all things that I might enjoy life.
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.
Sarah Waters

There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy.
- Frankfort Moore

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous."
-- Thomas Merton

"Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels."
-- Rabino Nilton Bonder

"Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved."
-- Marcus Antonius

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."
-- Anthony Robbins

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
-- Og Mandino

"Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind."
-- Mohammed

"The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."
-- Robert Ingersoll

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- Oscar Wilde

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
-Evelyn Waugh

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
- Havelock Ellis

I can resist everything but temptation.

Love will never be love unless shared with someone.
-ritz loredo

A smile can save life. Keep smiling.
-ritz loredo

The best way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- Chinese Proverb

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Winston Churchill

A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him;
his character is what he really is.
- Jack Miner

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Smashing heads does not open minds.
Deborah Tannen

If you always do what you always did, you'll always have what you always had.

Profanity is the effort of a feeble mind to express itself forcefully.
-Wilson Mizner, American playwright (1876-1933).

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
- Herbert V. Prochnow

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
- Phyllis Diller

"No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving. Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
-- Sir Winston Churchill

"If you want to show others the beauty of your religion, seek not to convert them, but to contribute to them."
-- Unknown

"The trick in life is to not fear death, but not to welcome it either."
-- Unknown

No matter how difficult life can be the most important thing is to live it with hope.
-- Unknown

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
-- Muhammad Ali

Happiness.is like a sweet perfume.....sprinkle it on others..but surely save a few drops for yourself!

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived."
- George S. Patton, Jr.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still live."
O. A. Battista

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
- Irvin S. Cobb

The Earth has enough for man's needs but not enough for man's greed.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Take the first step in faith.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
-Martin Luther King

There's nothing wrong with window shopping or even trying on, but just don't buy!

"... honesty varies inversely with temptation."
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (Our Theatre in the Nineties)

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
-Henri L Bergson

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- G. K. Chesterton

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive."
- O. A. Battista

The giving of love is an educaion in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady (1884-1962)

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey always towards the other south..."
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English writer

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
-Don Knuth

Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
--- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in your mind.
--- Henry David Thoreau

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
-Don Knuth

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-- Winston Churchill

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
- Ed Howe

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.
-Booker T. Washington

Persevere without patience, you will probably succeed, but you will be frequently frustrated.
If you are patient without perseverance, you will probably be comfortable, but never achieve your objectives.
The key is to keep yourself in balance by developing both qualities at the same time.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
- John D. MacDonald

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth maybe lighted.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

The suffering depends not upon the factual happenings , but upon the texture of the mind.

I drink to make other people more interesting.
--George Jean Nathan

Life levels all men; death reveals the eminent.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
- Harlan Miller

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
-Henry David Thoreau

Today is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday.
Was it worth it?

A window of opportunity won't open itself.
---Dave Wienbaum

If we do not know our history then we are doomed to live it.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

A set back is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

One thing you can learn by watching the clock is that it passes time by keeping its hands busy.

It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise.
- Nancy Thayer

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
~ Edward B. Butler

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
~ David Starr Jordan

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~ Swiss-born psychiatrist and writer

Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.
-- Seneca

You better live alone than be with someone and feel alone.....

Be part of the answer, not part of the problem.
- Buell Gallagher

Why do people with closed minds always open their mouths?

A wise monkey never monkeys with another monkeys' monkey.

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

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