All that this is is a whole bunch of sayings that
struck my fancy. Some of them are universal, some
of them I personally like. (Oh, btw, new ones are on
the top if you've already been here.)
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If you saw yourself as the type of person God intended
you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.
I who I am is what I have, and I lose all I have, who
am I?
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-
rate version of someone else. --Judy Garland
People are just about as happy as they make up thier
mind to be. --Abraham Lincoln
When someone says "That's just the way I am." what they
are saying is "I'm not responsible for my actions."
Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.
On their deathbead, nobody wished they had spent more
time at the office.
Don't tell people about your problems. Most people don't
care, and the ones who do are glad of it.
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
--Shakesphere
People are always blaming their circumstances for
what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The
people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want.
-- George Bernard Shaw
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute of joy to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the whole vine destroy?
Piglet sidled up behind Pooh.
"Pooh," he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw,
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail;
then you can let go when you want to.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall
defend, to the death, your right to say it."
-Volitare
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid
to laugh."
-Volitare
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just
look at the people he gave it to
Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop
believing in it
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice
to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
"When you have an efficient government, you have a
dictatorship."
-Harry Truman
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough
to be lazy.
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short
while you see the world with new eyes.
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its
partner in crime.
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without
going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of
things you can't see from the center.
I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk
somewhere.
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are
such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a
felony.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or
when. You can only decide how you're going to live now
Advice is what you ask for when you already know the
answer but wish you didn't.
Would it save you time if I gave up and went mad now?
Your first love is like being sixteen,
Never wholly forgotten, never completely remembered.
What may man within him hide
Though angel on the outward side.--Shakesphere
I brake for animals
and accelerate for school children.
If you dance with the devil in the pale moonlight,
he has the last laugh and you have the last cry.
Dream as if you'll live forever,
Live as if you'll die today.--James Dean
Reality: is that where the pizza guy comes from?
That's where I found the leprechaun and he told me to
Burn things.
Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your
slave.--David Bowie
Good endings are still endings.
HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED
meandering to a different kettle of fish
If the government is the answer, it must have been a
really stupid question.
I'm lost. I've gone to look for myself. If I should
return before I get back, please ask me to wait for me
If at first you don't succeed, well, so much for
skydiving.
you have to dance like no one's watching and love like
it's not going to hurt.
if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
your smile, the soul of witchery...
i thought i saw angels, but i could have been wrong.
loving you has got to be
like the devil in the deep blue sea.
Welcome to my parlor said the spider to the fly.
I always knew I'd look back on us crying and laugh,
but I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and
cry.
Friends applaud, the comedy is over. -- Dying words of
Ludwig Von Beethoven
Suburbia: Where they tear out the trees and name
streets after them.
Save a cow. Eat a vegetarian.
When it comes to a choice between two evils, I always
choose the one I haven't tried before.
"I believe in an America where religious intolerance
will someday end... where every man has the same right
to attend or not attend the church of his choice."
--Pres. John F. Kennedy
"Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered
by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and
thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting
me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this
time."
--Adolph Hitler, "Mien Kampf"
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are
20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor
breaks my leg. -- Thomas Jefferson
Save the whales! Trade them for prizes!
Walk on slowly
don't look behind you
don't say goodbye, love
I won't remind you.
-Jethro Tull
-Slow Marching Band
(that's a *really* good song for any band people.
especially juniors and seniors. ask me and i'll let
you listen to it sometime.)
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go
from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,
said the Cat.
"I don't much care where---" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the
Cat
"---so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an
explanation.
"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you
only walk long enough."
-Alice in Wonderland
-Lewis Carrol
You know a few things about me, dear sweetheart
Like my obsession with fantasy
But what the rabble don't yet understand
Is that fantasies become reality in my world.
-John Hinkley Jr.
-(the man who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan)
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(Yes... I've taken up art... maybe I'll post some more of
my stuff if any of it gets decent. You should see the
faces I've drawn so far... it's really laughable.)