"Life is like a box of cookies, it's always the same old shit.

"Tis better to not have a table to place your beer on than to not have beer to place on your table"

"You laugh at me because I'm different, but I laugh at you because you're all the same"

"Quoth the raven nevermore"

"Love is like the sand you hold in your hand: the tighter you hold on to it...the more sifts between your fingers...but if you let it rest there...it will stay there"

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Quotable Quotes ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

"Money is like an arm or a leg - use it or lose it." --Henry Ford

"A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him." --Mae West

"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." --Mark Twain

"Decide what you think is right and stick to it." --George Eliot

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability." --John Wooden

"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers." --Erich Fromm

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." --Malcolm Forbes

"Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day." --Darrell Royal

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." --Abraham Maslow

"So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell." --Anon.

"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time." --Norman Ford

"You write to me that it's impossible; the word is not French." --Napoleon, writing to one of his generals

"My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own." --Elaine Maxwell

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." --Sarah Bernhardt

"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." --Anon.

"People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not." --Giacomo Leopardi

"If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission." --Grace M. Hopper

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." --Muhammid Ali

"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." --Nancy Reagan

"If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill

"If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope." Max Gunther

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. --Henry Ford

"We are new every day." --Irene Claremont de Castillego

"If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?" --Basil S. Walsh

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought." --Matsuo Basho

"He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser." --Susan Sontag

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know that it has to get down to earth." --Pearl Buck

"To be a manager, you have to start at the bottom, no exceptions." --Henry Block

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself." --Ethel Barrymore

"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." --Edward Simmons

"Look twice before you leap." --Charlotte Bronte

"The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days." --M.M. Coady

"Audacity, more audacity, always audacity." --Georges Jacques Danton

"I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead." --Anita Baker

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead

"One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say." --Voltaire

"Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done." --Melvin Peebles

"Life is a risk." --Diane Von Furstenberg

"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it." --Col. Michael Friedsman,

"It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive." --Federico Fellini

"I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who *have* to dance." --George Balanchine

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." --Robert Louis Stevenson

"Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom." --Anon.

"Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything." --Franklin P. Adams

"I've always tried to go a step past wherever other people expected me to end up." --Beverly Sills

"When you're through changing, you're through." --Bruce Barton

"True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only." --Francois de La Rochefoucald

"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours." --Anon.

"Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short." --Adam Hochschild

"Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt." Barbara Walters