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Special Quotes

 

 

 

All of the following quotes have been collected over the years for inspiration, hope, words of wisdom etc.  Please feel free to use any of them for your own projects and such.

There are multiple pages so please look through them all.

 

 

"Welcome back, My friends-

To the show that never ends-

We're so glad you could attend!

                Come Inside-

                Come Inside!"

----Emerson, Lake & Palmer,

                70's Rock Group

"I quote others the better to express myself."

 

---The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"It's allright letting yourself go, as long as you can let yourself back."

---Mick Jagger

 

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."

---Colette, French writer

 

"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."

 

---Jean Kerr

On the one hand                                 On the other hand

"it's not whether you                      "winning isn't everyth win or lose, it's how the                     it's   the only thing.

   game is played."

----author unknown

 

"...I try or today, I hope for tomorrow, I am the average teenager."

 

---anonymous

 

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge, it is the thinking that makes

what we read ours."

 

---John Locke

 

"Make no judgements where you have no compassion."

---Anne McCaffrey

                From Dragonquest

 

"To be adult is to be alone."

 

---Jean Rostand

 

 

"Good, Better, Best- Never let it rest- til' good is better, and better is best."

 

---Ace Young, Deejay

                on KMET in L.A.

 

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain- and most do."

 

---Dale Carnegie

 

 

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

 

---J.F.K.

 

"I'm not afraid to die.  I just don't want to be there when it happens."

 

---Woody Allen
 

"Too much o a good thing can be wonderful."

 

---Mae West

"Find a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

 

---Albert Einstein
 

"Early to rise and early to bed makes a (person) healthy, wealthy, and dead."

---James Thurber

 

"Home is where the heart is, but the heart is never home."

 

---Song Lyrics by Gypsies on Parade

 

 

"A wish is a desire without an attempt."

---unknown

 

"Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

 

---Joseph Joubert

 

"Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

 

---Joseph Joubert

 

"When you don't have any money, the problem is food, when you have money, it's sex.

When you have both, it's health.  If everything is simply Jake (fine), then you're

frightened to death."

---J.P. Donleavy
 

"I wonder if anybody ever reached the age thirty-ive in New England without

wanting to kill himself."

---Barrett Wendell

 

"Most people would sooner die than think, in fact they do so."

 

---Bertrand Russell

 

"The reason we make a long story short is so we can tell another."

---Sharon Shoemaker

 

"Could a greater miracle take place than or us to look through each others' eyes for an instant?"

 

---Henry David Thoreau

 

"What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can.  Old deeds for old

people and new deeds for new!"

---Henry David Thoreau

 

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

 

---Henry David Thoreau

 

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

---Henry David Thoreau

 

"Though we travel the world over to ind the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a

different drummer.  Let him steop to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

---Henry David Thoreau

 

"To be great is to be misunderstood...."

 

---Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

"there are no secrets to success.  It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from

failure."

---General Colin L. Powell

 

"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not

know, that is true knowledge."

 

---Confucious

 

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                                                                                                            updated: 3/23/2002