MUSINGS and other writing by Mark Kolke

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. - Tom Robbins

It's a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. - Bertrand Russell

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick. - Candice Bergen

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in. - Katherine Mansfield 

We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. - Alice Bloch 

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. - Henry Ford 

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. - Thomas S. Szasz 

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. - Victor Hugo

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The letter I have written today is longer than usual because I lacked the time to make it shorter. - Blaise Pascal

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? – Rumi

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. - Norman Cousins

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. - Robert Cody 

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. - Katharine Hepburn

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. - Lao Tzu 

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. - Lao Tzu

If you like things easy, you'll have difficulties; if you like problems, you'll succeed. - Laotian Proverb 

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde 

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. - Albert Einstein 

Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing. - Yiddish Proverb 

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. - Yiddish Proverb 

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde

Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo Buscaglia 

Books are humanity in print. - Barbara W. Tuchman 

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.E. M. Forster

Every man's memory is his private literature. - Aldous Huxley 

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned. - W. Somerset Maugham

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other. - W. Somerset Maugham 

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? - W. Somerset Maugham

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good” - W. Somerset Maugham 

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. - W. Somerset Maugham

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. - Seneca 

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. – Ovid

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. - Patrick Murray 

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst. - Frederick Buechner  

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. - Cesare Pavese

The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat. - John McNulty

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. - Voltaire

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. - Nikos Kazantzakis  \

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. - Robin Williams 

Love that is not madness is not love. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca 

Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. - source unknown

Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't. - Seth Godin 

It is wiser to find out than to suppose. - Mark Twain 

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Ernest Hemingway

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory. - Leonardo da Vinci

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. - Susan Sontag 

Eating words has never given me indigestion. - Winston Churchill 

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. - Christopher Morley

Falling in love is like eating mushrooms, you never know if it's the real thing until it's too late. - Bill Balance

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. - Lewis Grizzard 

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks. - Joe E. Lewis 

I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house. - Lewis Grizzard 

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. - Lewis Grizzard

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. - Lewis Grizzard 

If you take a shower in the morning be sure to bring it back, someone else might need it!!

My friend has kleptomania, but when it gets bad, he takes something for it.

It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of living.

Just when you think you've hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel.

It is better to have loved a short man, than never to have loved a tall.

Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.

When you go into court you're putting yourself in the hands of 12 people
who weren't smart enough get out of jury duty.

Are part-time band leaders semi-conductors?

If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him...is he still wrong?

Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?"

Imagine if our mind is a muscle – then how much exercise is it getting? - Mark Kolke

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 

It is wise to bring some water, when one goes out to look for water. - Arab Proverb 

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. - Albert Einstein

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. - Jacques Benigne Bossuel

The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength. - source unknown

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. - Margaret Bonnano 

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. - Oscar Wilde 

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching. - source unknown

Don't be a spectator in your own life. Get out on the field, get into the game; matter - really matter - to something, anythin. - Mark Kolke

Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like. - source unknown

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own. - Charles Scribner Jr.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James 

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. -Lee Trevino

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. - Bill Bryson 

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.- Lee Trevino 

To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly. - Voltaire 

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem to lightly. - Thomas Paine

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. - Kin Hubbard quotes

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. - Benjamin Franklin 

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time. - James Taylor 

Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift. - Kurt Langner

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. - John C. Maxwell

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. - Bo Derek

We have the best government that money can buy. - Mark Twain

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.- Douglas Adams

Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do i. - Mahatma Gandhi 

He who has why to live can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it. - Ernest Renan

Misery is almost always the result of thinking. - Joseph Joubert 

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. - W. C. Fields

Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live. - W. C. Fields

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. - W. C. Fields 

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein 

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. - Sydney J. Harris 

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. - Ashleigh Brilliant

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you? - Ben Hogan 

My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.-Cindy Crawford

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing? - Katherine Whitehorn

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. - Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.-Paul Gauguin 

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. - Barbara Kingsolver 

In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth. - Dalai Lama 

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. - Franklin P. Jones 

The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking order. - Linda Festa

Death ends a life, not a relationship. - Robert Benchley 

Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best. - Woody Allen 

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. - Woody Allen 

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. - Woody Allen 

Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else. – Seth Godin

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from. – Seth Godin

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts. - Penelope Sweet 

Depression is the inability to construct a future. - Rollo May

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. - Jalal ad-Din Rumi

A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. - Margaret Mead

To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. - Ernest Hemingway

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears. - Francis Bacon, Sr

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. - Bill Cosby

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. - Aldous Huxley

My father was often angry when I was most like him. - Lillian Hellman

I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet. - Rodney Dangerfield

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's - Robert Frost

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers. - Theodore Roosevelt

A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be.

I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed - Robert Frost 

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood. - Henry Miller 

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. - Oscar Wilde  

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. - Peter Drucker

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. - François de la Rochefoucauld 

In the midst of great joy do not promise to give a man anything; in the midst of great anger do not answer a man's letter. - Chinese Proverb

Better a broken promise than none at all. - Mark Twain 

There is a crack in everything - that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile. - C.S. Lewis

Eat, sleep and play bingo. - Blaine Selva

The man who has no problems is out of the game.  - Elbert Hubbard

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein

It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions. - Michele de Montaigne

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. - Isaac Asimov

I'm very competitive. I don't even like to lose at checkers. I don't ever get mad. I just try harder. - John Wooten

Stay a child while you can be a child. - Stephen Sondheim

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people. - Christian Slater

Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. - Scott Adams

Games lubricate the body and the mind. - Benjamin Franklin

Egotism - doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. - Ambrose Bierce

Not only does God play dice, but .... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. - Stephen Hawking

Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris. - Oscar Wilde

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. - Babe Ruth

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. - John Hay

Close don't count in baseball.  Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.- Frank Robinson

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. - Gloria Steinem

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. - Joseph de Maistre

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi. - Richard Preston

We're the phone company. We don't care. We don't have to. - Lily Tomlin

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. - George Will

You have to learn the rules of the game.  And then you have to play better than everyone else. - Albert Einstein

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed. - African proverb

You give 100% in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left. - Yogi Berra

A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. - Hazel Nicholson

Cheating on a quiz show?  That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. - Paul Scofield

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. - Peter Drucker

Why are our cells numbered and not, say, lettered? - Woody Allen

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.  - Don Carter

You have to be cool under pressure. You have to be a strategist like chess and you have to use geometry like billiards. - Bill McBride

A good traveler has no fixed plan, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. - Winston Churchill

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant. - Jim Cole

Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. - Scott Adams

It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions. - Michel de Montaigne

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. - Homer, The Iliad

The man who has no problems is out of the game. Elbert Hubbard 

Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse. - Don Addis

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. - Anatole France

Most of us are pawns in a game of love we don't understand. - Leo Buscaglia

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. - Henry David Thoreau

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. – Voltaire

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six. - Navjot Singh Sidhu

I'm Walking (Yes, indeed, I'm talking). - Fats Domino

The game of golf would loze a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. - Ernest Hemingway

It is impossible to imaging Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiars or golf. - H.L. Mencken

I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness .... . - Henri Beyle

Games lubricate the body and the mind. - Benjamin Franklin

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home and never, never be both. - David Brown

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. - Emo Philips

Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is. - Ashleigh Brilliant

95% of this game is half mental. - Yogi Berra

Who in the world am I?  Ah, that's the great puzzle. - Lewis Carroll

Men play the game; women know the score. - Roger Woddis

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play. - Nikki Giovanni

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. - Martin Buber

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end. – unknown

Life, like all other games, becomes fun when one realizes that it's just a game. - Nerijus Stasiulis

There are too many games being developed by people who have no business creating games. - John Romero

What is my life if I am not longet useful to others? - Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. - Stephen Sondheim

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point. - Susan Sarandon 

We need a witness to our lives. - Susan Sarandon 

The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others. - Tibetan Proverb 

Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! - George Carlin 

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. – Voltaire

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. - source unknown

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein 

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful. - Anton LaVey 

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses. - H.L. Mencken 

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop. - H.L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken 

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing. - H.L. Mencken 

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. - Robert Collier 

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. - Lao Tzu 

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu 

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu 

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. - Lao Tzu

He who talks more is sooner exhausted. - Lao Tzu 

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.- Hafiz of Persia

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. - Hafiz of Persia 

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being. - Hafiz of Persia 

I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire quotes

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. - Franz Kafka

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. - Indira Gandhi

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. - Ernest Haskins

Love is the only rational act. - Stephen Levine

Where there is love there is life.- Mahatma Gandhi

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done. –Unknown

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef - Tom Robbins 

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. - Ben Okri

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. - Friedrich Nietzsche 

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. - Albert Einstein 

Little by little one walks far. - Peruvian Proverb 

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. - Tommy Lasorda 

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? - John Wooden 

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will. - Albert Einstein

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. - Wilma Rudolph 

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. - Paulo Coelho

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. - Flora Whittemore 

Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it. - source unknown

When you're finished changing, you're finished. - Benjamin Franklin 

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching. - source unknown

Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. - Don Galer

No one will question your integrity if your integrity is not questionable. - Nathaniel Bronner Jr. 

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. - Paulo Coelho

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. - Johnny Carson 

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie. - Rodney Dangerfield 

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. – Epictetus

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. - William Orville Douglas 

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. - Mark Twain 

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain 

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. - Mark Twain 

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work. - Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting. - George Carlin

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

Did you know that babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt? - Jeff Foxworthy

I tried to walk into Target, but I missed. -Mitch Hedberg

I went into McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries."The girl as the counter saud, "Would you like fries with that?" - Jay Leno

I have my standards. They may be low, but I have them. - Bette Midler

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - H. L. Menken

Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. - Mark Twain

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool. - Danish Proverb

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. - - Marcus Aurelius

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. - Stanley J. Randall

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. - Andy Rooney  

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle

My job is to talk; your job is to listen. If you finish first, please let me know. - Harry Herschfield

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. - Honore de Balzac

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. - Rudyard Kipling 

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. - Jill Churchill

Mothers are all slightly insane. - J. D. Salinger 

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. – Aristotle

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes. - George Carlin

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers,but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. - Pearl Buck

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. - Groucho Marx

Mothers are the necessity of invention. - Bill Watterson 

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. - Felix Frankfurter  

We hope that,when the insects take over the world,they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.-Bill Vaughn

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere. - François de la Rochefoucauld

The only thing constant in life is change. - François de la Rochefoucauld

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. - François de la Rochefoucauld 

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde 

Middle age is when you're old enough to know better but still young enough to do it. - source unknown

Middle Age - When you want to see how long your car will last instead of how fast it will go. - source unknown

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. - Ronald Reagan

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. - Harold Coffin

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. - Stephen Wright

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. - General George S. Patton 

Don't drive as if you owned the road. Drive as if you owned the car. - source unknown

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. - Kenneth Tynan

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. - Carl W. Buechner 

Moses dragged us for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil. - Golda Meir 

Don't be so humble, you're not that great. - Golda Meir

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain 

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. - Albert Pine 

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb. - Robertson Davies 

A highbrow is a person who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the lone Ranger. - Al Boliska

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.Love risks degenerating into obsession,friendship is never anything but sharing. E.Wiesel

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost

If you have it [Love],you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it,it doesn't matter much what else you have.-James Barrie

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H.L.  Mencken

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, magic in it. - Goethe

Remember, if you want to run with the big dogs, you need to learn how to pee in the tall grass. – unknown

I live in fear of not being misunderstood.-- Oscar Wilde

Television is chewing gum for the eyes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Never let your schooling interfere with your education - Mark Twain

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. – source unknown

You can lead a man to politics, but you can't make him think. – source unknown

In a dictatorship, people suffer without complaining. In a democracy, people complain without suffering. - source unknown

Sex between 2 people is a beautiful thing; between 5 it's fantastic. - Woody Allen 

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. - Nora Ephron

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. - Nora Ephron 

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

It takes a long time to grow young. - Pablo Picasso 

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost 

Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday. - Stephen Wright 

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. - George Harrison 

There is still no cure for the common birthday. - John Glenn

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. - Ogden Nash 

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. - Carol Burnett

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. - Satchel Paige 

The best alternative to work is to initiate a meeting. - source unknown

Richard Berry heard a song’s beat he liked.He went into the men's room & wrote down the lyrics to "Louie, Louie" on toilet paper.

Conflict is inevitable, combat is optional. - Max Lucade 

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.” - E. M. Kelly

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. - Norman Schwarzkopf

Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it. - Steven V. Thulon

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. - Sven Goran Eriksson

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.- Peter T. Mcintyre 

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

I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got. - S.W. Harrison

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao Tzu 

If you don't design your own life plan,chances are you'll fall into someone else's. Guess what they have planned for you? Not much.-Jim Rohn

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. - Bertolt Brecht

The brain starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. - Linus Torvalds 

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. - Oscar Wilde

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. - Napoleon Hill

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. - Anais Nin 

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. - Anatole France 

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. - Dr. Linus Pauling 

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Everyone is in love with his own ideas. - Carl Gustav Jung

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. - Pablo Picasso

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. - Emile Chartier 

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. - Swedish Proverb

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi 

Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most. - Ashleigh Brilliant

Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching. - Aurora Greenway 

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need. - The Rolling Stones

Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.- Elbert Hubbard 

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. - Denis Waitley 

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch 

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. - Guy Finley 

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'. - Wayne Dyer 

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. - Winston Churchill 

The best way to get people to accept the need for change is to not give them a choice. - William Weiss 

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more. - Addison H. Hallock 

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. - Javan 

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Love is not something you feel, it is something you do; love is a verb, an action word.  We get better at it the more we do it. - Mark Kolke

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. - E. L. Doctorow

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. - Charles M. Schwab 

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. - Galileo Galilei 

Never assume the obvious is true. - William Safire 

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. - Ayn Rand

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain 

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. - Ogden Nash 

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you. - Zig Ziglar

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. - Ambrose Bierce

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. - Charles M. Schulz

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate. - Katharine Hepburn

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give, which is everything.- Katharine Hepburn

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. - Katharine Hepburn

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. - Katharine Hepburn

Never complain. Never explain. - Katharine Hepburn 

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin 

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. - George Carlin

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. - George Carlin

When someone is impatient and says,"I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day? -George Carlin

Atheism is a non-prophet organization. - George Carlin 

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. – Aristotle

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. - Robert Heinlein 

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. -Herman Cain

It isn't what you have, who you are, where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy  - it is what you think about.-Dale Carnegie

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde 

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. - George Sand

Some pursue happiness - others create it. - source unknown

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. – Epictetus

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is. - Oscar Wilde 

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C.S. Lewis 

The best mirror is an old friend. - Peter Nivio Zarlenga

We don't stop laughing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop laughing. - Michael Pritchard

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. - Theodore Roosevelt 

We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it. - Stu Mittleman

Old age is no place for sissies. - Bette Davis

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley 

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. - Helen Rowland 

There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand. - Joyce Jillson 

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” - Virginia Woolf

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. - Virginia Woolf 

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. - Virginia Woolf

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. - Virginia Woolf 

Improvement begins with I. - Arnold H. Glasgow

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon

Life is a sexually transmitted disease. - R. D. Laing

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. - Aaron Rose

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. - Frank Tyger

To be an adult is to be alone. - Jean Rostand

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone. - Suzanne Gordon

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

You must not lose faith in humanity. It is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,the ocean does not become dirty.- Mahatma Gandhi

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. - Mae West

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. - Nick Faldo

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?' - Rita Rudner

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. – Socrates

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. - W. Somerset Maugham

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. – Voltaire

Own only what you can carry with you;know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. - Mark Twain

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. - Susan Sontag

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. - William Congreve

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. - Cullen Hightower

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce

No one ever choked to death swallowing his pride. - unknown source

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. - Thomas Jefferson 

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? - Pablo Picasso 

It pays to be honest, but it's slow pay. - source unknown

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic. - Zig Ziglar

A hungry stomach cannot hear. - Jean de La Fontaine 

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi 

If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry. - H. H. Swami Tejomayananda quotes

Be yourself. Let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. - John Jakes

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean. - Robert Louis Stevenson 

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. - E. L. Doctorow 

I don't like to write, but I love to have written. - Michael Kanin 

Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. - Gao Xingjian 

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. - E. L. Doctorow

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. - Terry Southern 

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. – Socrates

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. - Jules Renard

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.-Kahlil Gibran [Who gets 2:30AM laugh calls?]

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. - Shirley MacLaine 

Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important. - Hermione Gingold 

What we desire and thirst for trumps all other values that compete for the part of our brain that has no limit on its energy. - Mark Kolke

I am only entitled to draw breath, everything else is a bonus. - Mark Kolke

Each of us needs to find what rekindles our energy; that stirs our burnt-embers, our smoldering desires, to see our own truth. - Mark Kolke

Fear, uncertainty and doubt stand between us and those things that bring us joy. - Mark Kolke

To say 'truth is the answer' seems trite,old,tired,lame, un-original; but it is the answer to all questions, all ways, always. - Mark Kolke

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it than to decide it without stirring it up. - Joseph Joubert 

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. - Alfred North Whitehead 

April is the cruelest month,breeding lilacs out of the dead land,mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. -T.S. Eliot

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. - Louise Brown

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be. - Joe Cocker

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. – Plato

Make crime pay. Become a Lawyer. - Will Rogers

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. - Will Rogers

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. - Anton Chekhov

Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. - Anton Chekhov 

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. - Anton Chekhov 

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.- source unknown

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. - Kahlil Gibran

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. - St. Jerome 

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. - Dorothy Sarnoff 

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. - Walt Whitman 

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. - Thomas Jefferson   

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. - Stephen R. Covey

The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders. - Ben Stein

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. - Bonnie Raitt

You can think you can or you can think you can not - either way you are right. Henry Ford

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. - Ashley Montague 

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. - Germaine Greer

Don't wait for answers... Just take your chances! Don't ask me why. - Billy Joel 

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - John Wooden 

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. - Wayne Gretzky

I wasn’t really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness. – unknown

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. - Ambrose Bierce 

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight. His punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. - Kahlil Gibran

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. - Emily Dickinson

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come. - Harrison Ford

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. - John Ruskin 

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn. - S.K.Bolton

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. - Kahlil Gibran

The best way to teach people is by telling a story. - Ken Blanchard

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.- source unknown

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. - Bernard Meltzer

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. - Maxwell Maltz

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. – unknown

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold H. Glasgow 

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you. - Winnie the Pooh 

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. - Boris Pasternak

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. - Stephen Hawking

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. - Morris K. Udall

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. - James A. Michener 

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. - Bertrand Russell

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. - Pablo Picasso

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.- Zig Ziglar

I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through. - Sir Walter Scott

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else.It's the people with follow-through who excel.-M.K.Ash

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus

Thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them. - Buddha 

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. -  Ralph Nader

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - Anatole France

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. - Tom Krause

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. - Lao Tzu 

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. - Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu 

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. - Lao Tzu 

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. - Lao Tzu

It's never too late to give up our prejudices. - Henry David Thoreau 

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. - Mark Twain

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. - E. V. Lucas

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. - W. H. Auden

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. - Bill Watterson

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. - James Lovelock

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. - Albert Schweitzer

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it. - Kin Hubbard

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you. - Erma Bombeck

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. - Erma Bombeck

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. - Cesar Chavez

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one. - C.S. Lewis

Nobody can hurt me without my permission. - Mahatma Gandhi 

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. - Rodney Dangerfield

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about. - Bobby Jones

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. - Sam Snead

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. - John Maxwell 

f you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. - Win Borden

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. - William Shedd

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow. -M.A. Radmacher

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first. - Janeane Garofalo

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different. - Bill Watterson

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others. - Tom Robbins

The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously. - Elbert Hubbard

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind. - Leonardo da Vinci 

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. - Charles F. Kettering 

The brain,a wonderful organ,starts working the moment you get up in the morning - does not stop until you get into the office.- Robert Frost

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. - Burton Rascoe 

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. - John Osborne 

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. - Bill Gates

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. - Anais Nin

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. - P. L. Travers

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. - Richard Eder 

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. - Richard Bach 

Write while the heat is in you. - Henry David Thoreau 

He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. - William Faulkner

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. - Virginia Woolf 

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair. - Alfred Kazin 

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Anais Nin

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. - Anais Nin

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. - Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. - Josh Billings

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.- George Bird Evans

Dogs crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. - Agatha Christie

From a dog's point of view his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. - Mabel L. Robinson

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. - Ambrose Bierce

All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault. - Ernest Hemingway 

Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat. - Caroline Schoeder

It ain't the heat; it's the humility. - Yogi Berra quotes

What matters most is less a conundrum than ‘what matters at all? - Mark Kolke

Knowing ourselves is not something we generally learn well in a crowd; it is not a team activity, it’s solitary homework. - Mark Kolke

Grain after grain,time slips through the hourglass neck - I’d like to squeeze the pinch point to catch some more time in my hand.-Mark Kolke

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

When you arise in the morning,think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive,to breathe,to think,to enjoy,to love. - Marcus Aurelius

Books are not men and yet they stay alive. - Henry Ward Beecher

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. - Henry Miller

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. - D.H. Lawrence

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. - Joseph Campbell

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive. - W. C. Fields

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. - Josh Billings

Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. - Henry David Thoreau

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. - Mark Twain

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. - Thomas Jefferson

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. - Kahlil Gibran

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. - Robert Frost

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. - G. K. Chesterton

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. - Eugene V. Debs

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.- Oscar Wilde 

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. - John Steinbeck 

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. - Chuck Palahniuk 

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.- Mark Twain

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. - Henry David Thoreau

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. - Saul Bellow 

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.- Edgar Allan Poe

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. - Pamela Hansford Johnson

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.- John Muir

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. - John Muir 

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen. - John Muir

Happiness is not something ready-made, it comes from your own actions. - His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. - His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. - His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. - His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously. - Woody Allen

When he's late for dinner,I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street.I always hope it's the street.-Jessica Tandy

The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner with one sheep. – unknown

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. - Helen Keller

I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. Maya Angelou

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.- Horace

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In crises the most daring course is often safest.- Dr. Henry Kissinger

Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. - Oscar Wilde

Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgment. - Roy L. Smith 

If I had a song, I'd sing it in the morning, I'd sing it in the evening, All over this land. - Lee Hays 

I can think of no greater devotion, than to be shore to your ocean. – Hafiz

In politics, if you want anything said ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. - Robert Benchley

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. - William Faulkner

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong. - Bertrand Russell

Always drink upstream from the herd. - Will Rogers

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a Cat. - Ogden Nash

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Difficulties exist to be surmounted. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. - Walt West

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it - Terry Pratchett

If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat. - Robert Morley 

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. - Katharine Hepburn

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.-Vince Lombardi

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. - Lewis Carroll 

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option – unknown

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. - Shaquille ONeal

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. - Eli Khamarov

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. - Fritz Perls

Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try. A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly. - A. A. Milne

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is worth more than this day. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. - Charles Lindbergh

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife. - Shelly Winters

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. - Charles de Montesquieu

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch. - Michael Friedman

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

We cannot put off living until we are ready. - Jose Ortega y Gasset quote       

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. - unknown

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. - Morris K. Udall

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. - Marshall McLuhan

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone is arguing over where they're going to sit. - David Suzuki

You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have. - Jeff Rich

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. - Ansel Adams    

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. - Doug Larson

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. - Paul Hawken

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause. - Jack Benny

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. - Mark Twain

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. - Charlie Brown

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken

The difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. - Charles F. Kettering

Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet. - source unknown

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. – Aesop

The right moment for starting on your next job is not tomorrow or next week; it is right now. Arnold Toynbee

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. - John Dewey

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. - W. Clement Stone

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. - Rabindranath Tagore

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'. - Wayne Dyer

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. - Emily Dickinson

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. - Elbert Hubbard

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. - Billy Wilder

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. - Leo F. Buscaglia

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. - Spanish Proverb

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. - Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. - Pablo Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso