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Quotes 1-100 1) "Live. A lot. Unleash yourself upon the world and go!"
2) "There are 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
3) "Memory is not as beautiful as hope, but it is more beautiful, and
a thousand times true. --George Dennison
4) "The only true gift is a portion of yourself." --Ralph Waldo
Emerson
5) "Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is
laid on it."
6) "Each has a past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him
by heart. And his friends can only read the title. --Virginia
Woolf
7) "Friends are the strawberries on the shortcake of life."
8) "Romance is a state of mind, an attitude. It's not so much what you
do as how you do it. This is why little gestures work so
well."
9) "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same
number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert
Einstein."
10) "If anything really matters when all this is over, I know it will
be our love."
11) "Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."--Groucho
Marx
12) "There is no love as true as love that dies untold."
13) "A heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating just the
same."
14) "My mistakes have been my heartache, but I wouldn't be who I am
without them."
15) "People in love don't forget. . . they forgive." --Indecent
Proposal
16) "We must always have old memories and young hopes." --Arsene
Houssaye
17) "The best part of living is loving."
18) "It's great when the person that you're in love with can be your
best friend." --Meg Ryan
19) "Time waits for no man, but true love waits forever." --Mel
Gibson (Forever Young)
20) ". . . So I am going to kiss you. A nice long, slow, soft, deep
kiss. Then I'm going to walk away. And that'll end it."
21) "Oh! Death will find me long before I tire of watching
you."
22) "I'll just wake up every monring and breathe in and out. . .and
after awhile I won't have to think about it." --Tom Hanks (Sleepless in
Seattle)
23) "Your will chooses me, but your heart chooses him." --Sean
Connery (First Knight)
24) "Then you have the best of it; my will is stronger than my heart. .
. my will holds me steady on my course through life." --Julia Ormond
(First Knight)
25) "I don't make sense, he don't make sense, together we make sense."
--Marisa Tomei (Untamed Heart)
26) "Equality. . .I understand the concept, but I can't find an
example. --YM Magazine
27) "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can
achieve." --Napoleon Hill
28) "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the
illusion of knowledge." --Danile J. Boorstin
29) "We can do only what we think we can do. We can only be what we
think we can be. We can only have what we think we can have. What we do,
what we are, what we have, all depend on what we think."
--Collier
30) "Every man dies, but not every man really lives. --Mel Gibson
(Braveheart)
31) "Love looks not with the eyes, but the with the mind, and
therefore is wing'd cupid, painted blind." --William Shakespeare (A
Midsummer Night's Dream)
32) "She was filled with a strange, wild, unfamiliar happiness, and
knew that this was love. . .never before, not even in dreams, and she was
a great dreamer of love, had she felt anything remotely like it."
--Nancy Mitford (The Pursuit of Love)
33) "All the privilege I claim for my own sex. . .is that of loving
longest when existence or hope is gone." --Jane Austen
34) "See! How she leans her cheek upon her hand; O! that I were a
glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek." --William
Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
35) "Her lips trembled and so did his. It was never known which lips
were the first to move towards the other lips; but they kissed
tremblingly, and then they moved apart. --George Eliot
(Middlemarch)
36) "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" --William
Shakespeare (As You Like It)
37) "Say I'm wary, say I'm sad, say that health and wealth have missed
me, say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me." --James Henry Leigh
Hunt (Rondeau)
38) "A women's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving
around some emotionally compelling siutation or challenge, and each marked
off by some intense experience." --Wallis Simpson
39) "You will do foolish things in life, but do them with enthusiasm."
--Colette
40) "Life is what happens to you while you make other plans."
--Betty Talmadge
41) "I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and comfort
of friendship was that one had to explain nothing." --Katherine
Mansfield
42) "One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you
are when you don't come home at night." --Margaret Mead
43) "Tears may dry up, but the heart-never." --Margueritte de
Valois
44) "In youth we learn, in age we understand." --Marie
Ebner-Eschenbach
45) "There's a time when you have to explain to your children why
they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then."
--Hazel Scott
46) "It's the friends that call you up at 4 a.m. that matter."
--Marlene Dietrich
47) "Age is something that doesn't matter, unelss you are a cheese."
--Billie Burke
48) "Women are repeatedly accused of taking things too personally. I
cannot see any other honest way of taking them." --Marya Mannes
49) "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I
never tried before." --Mae West
50) "One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no
rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom."
--Susan Hoewatch
51) "In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had
a chance he laid the blame on women." --Nancy Astor
52) "If we'd only stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good
time." --Edith Wharton
53) "The ony thing that makes life possible is permanent, intoerable
uncertainty; not knowing what comes next." --Ursula K. Le Guin
54) "It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have
time." --Tallulah Bankhead
55) "You don't know a woman until you've had a letter from one."
--Ada Leverson
56) "A man has got to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a
woman has to do is put you on hold." --Marlo Thomas
57) "Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you
don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough."
--Dinah Shore
58) ". . .That is best-to laugh with someone because you both think the
same things are funny." --Gloria Vanderbilt
59) "You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to
you." --Mary Tyler Moore
60) "One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated
equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat
a man." --Marlo Thomas
61) "I don't need a man to rectify my existence. the most profound
relationship we have is the one with ourselves." --Mary Dixon
Thayer
62) "Oh, I am so inadequate-and I love myself!" --Meg Ryan
63) "When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a
woman gets up, people look; then if they like what they see, they listen."
--Pauline Frederick
64) "I am not a gourmet chick." --Pearl Bailey
65) "Personally I tink if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time
she is 24, she may be lucky." --Deborah Kerr
66) "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other.
Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
--Katherine Hepburn
67) "It's never too late, in fiction or in life-to revise." --Nancy
Thayer
68) "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent,
protects you from age." --Jeanne Moreau
69) "It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
--Dolores Ibarruri
70) "Men are taught to apologize for the weaknesses, women for their
strengths." --Lois Wyse
71) "When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out
of love, you site." --Miss Manners (Judith Martin)
72) "They way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with
the rain." --Dolly Parton
73) "I'm suggesting we call sex something else, and it should include
everything from kissing to sitting close together." --Shere Hite
74) "The only interesting answers are those which destroy the
questions." --Susan Sontag
75) "My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of
devotion, a spontaeous aversion for the man I loved." --Colette
76) "Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and
one for them together." --Jacqueline Bisset
77) "How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but
someone." --Coco Chanel
78) "If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"
--Lily Tomlin
79) "Sometiemes we must wait patiently for the treasures of life.
Sometimes those treasures wait patiently for us.
80) "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayl of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find
the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy
child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one
life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have
succeeded." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
81) "Absence may not make the heart grow fonder, but abstinence does."
82) "Faith is permitting ourselves to be sized by the things we do not
see." --Martin Luther
83) "Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in." --Ellen Goodman
84) "There are no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are
hard to come by." --Annie Dillard
85) "A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a
whisper." --Barry Niel Kaufman
86) "Often the best thing about not saying anything is that it can't be
repeated." --Susan L. Wiener
87) "Bliss in possession will not last, remembered joys are never
past." --James Montgomery
88) "Friendship is certainly the first balm for the pangs of
disappointed love." --Jane Austin
89) "There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root." --Henry David Thoreau
90) "Good manners open doors that the best education will not."
--Clarence Thomas
91) "She had a smile I would accept as my last view of earth."
--Wallace Stegner
92) "Each day we have together is one more than we deserve." --Robert
Redford (Up Close and Personal)
93) "Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell." --Emily Dickinson
94) "If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem." --Joan
Crawford
95) "Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart, or
burn down your hosue you can never tell." --Joan Crawford
96) "Reality is something you rise above." --Liza Minneli
97) "I'll wait for you forever." --Legends of the Fall
98) "We can only learn love by loving." --Iris Murdoch
99) "Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases, think for
yourself." --Dorris Tessing
100) "If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could
be."