"Great men are they who see that spiritual force is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations." -- Henry David Thoreau "It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased. An originally educated judgment grows broader and gentler as the river of life widens out to the everlasting sea." -- Margaret Gatty "Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought." -- Henry David Thoreau "My wife keeps telling me I shouldn't eat cookies for breakfast because too much sugar in the morning makes me irritable. I don't know why she can't get it through her think skull that cookie dough *isn't* cookies." -- Dave Brennan "My childhood was rough. Once for my birthday, my old man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away." -- Rodney Dangerfield "Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win." -- Greg Anderson "People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society." -- Stephen Covey "Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you." -- Elbert Hubbard "Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent." -- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort "Tonight's forecast: dark. Continuing dark throughout the night and turning to widely scattered light in the morning." -- George Carlin "Women who drink white wine either want to get married, sell you a piece of real estate, or redecorate your house. Either way, it's expensive." -- Lewis Grizzard "Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being--as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways." -- Francis Wilson "If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito." -- Michelle Walker "Ability is a poor man's wealth."
-- Matthew Wren "There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people." -- Jan Ashford "When I was a kid I got no respect. I worked in a pet store. People kept asking how big I get."
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Life can be grim when you pass 80, especially if there's a police car behind you."
-- Sam Ewing "Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself."
-- William Shakespeare (King Henry VIII) "Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last." -- William Penn An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." -- Mahatma Gandhi "Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst."
-- Walter Weckler "My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden." -- Eric Morecambe "According to a new study, men cry on the average of once a month. Gee, I wonder what time of the month that would be..." -- Jay Leno "The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression." -- Samuel Johnson "For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation." -- Plato "It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then."
-- Richard Armour "No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi." -- Ben Elton "Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know." -- Andre Maurois "50% of Americas population spends less than 10 dollars a month on romance. You know what we call these people? Men!" -- Jay Leno "Give me a beauty queen who understands the rules of the game. Give me a beauty queen like Kathy Sue Loudermilk, who won the coveted Miss Collard Festival Queen title seven years running back home, breaking Cordie Mae Poovy's string of four in a row. That's not the only string Kathy Sue broke. When the one that held up the top of her swimsuit snapped, that's how she ousted Cordie Mae in the first place." -- Lewis Grizzard |