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MY FAVE QUOTES AND SAYINGS

NEW QUOTES

Updated: February 4, 2007


"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher

"The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there."
Betty Grable

"I hope that the kids, while they sing along to my songs or dance to it, feel that life is not that bad at all. Even for just a minute."
Scatman John

"I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house."
Zsa Zsa Gabor

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb ... and I also know that I'm not blonde."
Dolly Parton

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up."
Phyllis Diller

"The hunger of love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
Mother Teresa

"Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more!"
Joyce Meyer

"It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it."
Helen Hayes

"Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money."
Robin Williams

"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 (this quote plays in my Zeus game)

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
Tom Stoppard

"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."
Katharine Hepburn

"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
Sir Winston Churchill

"Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation."
Kin Hubbard

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

"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."
Thorstein Veblen

QUOTES

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science."
Albert Einstein

"The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting."
Amanda Cross (1926 - )

"Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of."
Amy Heckerling

"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling."
Arthur Brisbane

"If no one asks me, I know; but if any person requires me to tell them, I can not."
Augustine

"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."
Barbara Hall (Northern Exposure; Rosebud, 1993)

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."
Dr. Joyce Brothers (1949 - )

"I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
Edward Everett (1794-1865)

"The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself."
Elizabeth Metcalf

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."
Emily Post

"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."
Farrah Fawcett
"Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
Jean Kerr

"If you realize too acutely how valuable time is,
you are too paralyzed to do anything."
Katharine Butler Hathaway

"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."
King Whitney Jr.

"It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too."
Lillian Bell

"It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men."
Mae West (1892 - 1980)

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always."
Mahatma Gandhi

"[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket."
Marge Piercy

"Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want."
Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

"If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision," you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad."
Mary McCarthy

"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Mary Pickford (1893-1979)

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Mary Pickford (1893-1979)

"Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns."
Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)

"The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."
Mignon McLaughlin

"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

"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

"Hold on, be strong!"
TuPac Shakur

"I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?"
Zsa Zsa Gabor (1919 - )

SAYINGS

"Sticks and stones may break your bones, but the wound a word makes can fester forever!"

"Strength on the outside comes only after strength on the inside."

"A mistake is a chance to try harder."

"When you believe in youself, anything is possible."

"Never, never, never, ever give up!"

"You can't change your past, but you can change your future."

"I don't give out grades. You earn them."

"Your choice, your actions, your life!"

"Take the time to write it wright."

"Don't just do enough to get by...do enough to get ahead!"

"No matter how much you think no one loves you, someone always will...even if you don't think they're even there."

"If I were to die,
I'd wish to be a tear in your eye,
so I could live on your cheek,
and die on your lips."

"The power to overcome; hold your head up high; and the wisdom to know the difference!"

"If the only way to be with you is in my dreams; then I want to sleep forever!"