Monday, August 25, 2008

Carolynn's Favorite Quotes


"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone" - Henry David Thoreau

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible" - Jerzy Lec Stanislaw

"The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money" - Mark Twain

"The only thing he taught me was how not to be a father...He walked out the bloody door and was never around.....For someone who was praised for peace and love and wasn't able to keep that at home, that's hypocrisy" - Julian Lennon, on his father, the late John Lennon

"Welfare is a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"What does not destroy me, makes me strong" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"I don't give them hell, I just tell the truth and the think its hell" - Harry S. Truman

"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength" - Eric Hoffer

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana

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