Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Carolynn's Favorite Quotes


"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry" - Mark Twain

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves" - William Arthur Ward

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go th the grave with the song still in them" - Henry David Thoreau

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness" - Chuang-tzu

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for" - Allan K. Chalmers

"I am like a falling star who has finally found his place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever" - Amy Tan

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them" - Henri Matisse

"Well done is better than well said" - Benjamin Franklin

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts" - Sir Winston Churchill

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves" - Albert Einstein

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do" - Issac Asimov

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30 , and is not a conservative, has no brains" - Sir Winston Churchill

Friday, August 1, 2008

Carolynn's Favorite Quotes


"The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least" - Unknown

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" - Gandhi

"Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching" - Unknown

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" - Albert Einstein

"A clever person solves a problem, a wise person avoids it" - Albert Einstein

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think that it's two hours. Thats relativity" - Albert Einstein

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed - Alexander Pope

"Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing" - Benjamin Franklin

"When I was a boy I was told that anyone could become president. Now I'm beginning to believe it" - Clarence Darrow

"If your parents never had any children, chances are you won't either" - Dick Cavett

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't - Erica Jong

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" - George Orwell

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today" - James Dean

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason" - Jerry Seinfeld

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else" - Judy Garland

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Carolynn's Favorite Quotes


"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed" - Carl Jung

"The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering" - Carl Jung

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years" - Abraham Lincoln

"No man can make you feel inferior without your consent" - Eleanor Roosevelt

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life" - Winston Churchill

"That which does not kill you makes you stronger" - Neitzche

"I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward" - Firdtjof Nansen

"The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather that what to think" - James Beattie

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt" - Mark Twain

"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open" - Sir James Dewar

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; and optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" - Winston Churchill

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

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only way" - Albert Einstein

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Carolynn's Favorite Quotes


"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaids comes easy" - Albert Einstein

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

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." - Robert Frost

"Education is a valuable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught" - Oscar Wilde

"Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts" - Albert Einstein

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god" - Jorge Luis Borges

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right" - Henry Ford

"Thought is action in reversal" - Sigmund Freud

"I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" - Robert Frost

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Carolynn's Favorite Quotes


"Eighty percent of success is showing up" - Woody Allen

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones" - Stephen King

"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a teriffic cost" - Stephen King

"Get busy living or get busy dying" - Stephen King

"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good about after and what is immoral is what you feel bad about after" - Earnest Hemingway

"A man can be destroyed, but not defeated" - Earnest Hemingway

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you" - Earnest Hemingway

Monday, July 21, 2008

Carolynn's Favorite Quotes


"I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th one will be fought with stones" - Albert Einstein

"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world" - Albert Einstein

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it's happened" - Dr. Seuss

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams" - Dr. Seuss

"I am not young enough to know everything" - Oscar Wilde

"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years" - Mark Twain

"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting than being one" - Marilyn Monroe

"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times" - Mark Twain

"If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance" - Mark Twain

"Life is too important a thing ever to talk seriously about" - Oscar Wilde

"One should either be a work of art or wear a work or art" - Oscar Wilde

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal" - Albert Einstein

"I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens" - Woody Allen


Sunday, July 20, 2008

"Carolynn's Favorite Quotes"


"The chains of habit are generally to small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken" - Samuel Johnson

"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself" - Benjamin Franklin

"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here" - Shakespeare (The Tempest)

"Love may move with languid steps, but hate strikes with a spiders speed" - Unknown

"It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice" - Eddie Cantor

"Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate on the present moment" - Buddha

"It's not the men in your life that count; it's the life in your men" - Mae West

"Be who you are and say what you feel: because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" - Dr. Seuss

"Patience and fortitude conquer all things" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school" - Albert Einstein