QUOTES THAT FLOAT MY BOAT

" If you never have,
you should,
these things are fun,
and fun is good."
--Dr. Seuss

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark,
the real tragedy is a man who is afraid of the light"
--Plato

"Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted."
--A. Einstein

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
--Thomas Jefferson

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends."
--MLK

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody,
come sit next to me."
--Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"When choosing between two evils,
I always try the one I've never tried before"
--Mae West

"Purple haze are in my brain
Lately things don't seem the same
Actin' funny but I don't know why
'Scuze me while I kiss the sky
--Jimi Hendrix

"Oh innocent victims of Cupid,
Remember this terse little verse;
To let a fool kiss you is stupid
To let a kiss fool you is worse."
--E.Y. Harburg

"Hope is the feeling you have that feeling you have isn't permanent"
--Jean Kerr

"A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks."

" I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs
but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
--General Patton

"If you never did you should.
These things are fun and fun is good."
--Dr. Seuss

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul."
--Mark Twain

"I hope you have not been leading a double life,
pretending to be wicked and really being good all the time.
That would be hypocrisy." --Oscar Wilde

“You may say I’m a dreamer,
but I’m not the only one.”
--John Lennon

‘The man who can’t dance thinks the band is no good.”
--Polish Proverb

“A smart person knows the rules so he can
break them wisely.”
--Lubna Azmi

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”
--Mahfous Naguib

“ I have no special gifts. I am just passionately curious.”
--A Einstein

“If the person that you are talking to does not seem
to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that
he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
--Winnie the Pooh

“Don’t tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and let them surprise you
With their results.”
--George Patton

“Freedom is not worth having if it does
not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
--Mahatma Ghandi

“It doesn’t make any difference what you do in the bedroom
as long as you don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.”
Mrs. Patrick Campbell

“It aint me;
it aint me;
I aint no senator’s son!”
--Creedence Clearwater Revival

“Those are my principles.
If you don’t like them I have others”
--Grouch Marx

“I always have room for something
sweet like a thought of you.”
--Pooh Bear

“A wise owl sat on an oak,
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke, the more he heard;
Why aren’t we like that wise old bird?”
--Edward H. Richards

“We make a living by what we get.
but we make a life by what we give.”
--Winston Churchill

“We are still master’s of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.”
--Winston Churchill

“I hold it, that a little rebellion now and then,
is a good thing and necessary in the political world
as storms in the physical.”
--Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than
sincere ignorance and conscentious stupidity.”
--MLK

“Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it,
while to remember , to know, is to be set free.”
--Freud

“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know
why it was put up.”
--Robert Frost


“I’ve had a lovely evening.
Unfortunately this wasn’t it.”
--Groucho Marx

“I disapprove of what you have to say,
but I will defend to death your right to say it.”
--Voltaire

“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told
that sorrow knows how to swim.”
--Ann Landers

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
--JFK

“Stolen kisses are always sweetest.”
--Leigh Hunt

“The reason most peole sweat is so they will
not catch fire while making love.”
--Don Rose

“Beauty is not caused-it is;
Chase it and it will ceases,
Chase it not and it abides…”
--Emily Dickinson

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
and I—I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
R. Frost

“If I have seen farther than others,
it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.”
--Sir Isaac Newton

“Flatter me, and I may not believe.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore nad me and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
William Arthur Ward

“Character is what you are in the dark.”
Dwight L. Moody

“Knowledge is power.”
--Sir Francis Bacon

“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
They have a world to win.
Workers of the world unite!”—Karl Marx

“The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is.
And it is rarer than the unicorn.
And I have never had one.”
--Erica Jong

“Some see the problem in every opportunity,
some see the opportunity in every problem.”
--Kevin Cowling

“Is sex dirty?
Only if it’s done right.”

“Be good and you will be lonely.”
--Mark Twain

“Sex is not the answer…
Sex is the question.
Yes is the answer.

“…man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but usually manages to pick himself up
walk around it, and carry on.”
--W. Churchill

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen
and thinking what nobody has thought.”
--Albrt Szent-Gryogyi

“Let us endeavor so to live that when we die
even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Mark Twain

“Begin at the beginning;
the King said gravely,
and go till you come to the end;
then stop.”
Lewis Carroll

"The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"It isn't what they say about you,
it's what they whisper."
--Errol Flynn

"I ate his liver.
With some fava beans and a nice chianti."
--Silence of hte Lambs

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