"It is the weak who are cruel; gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.

"Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate."
J.R.R. Tolkien

“Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?”
Solomon Short

“Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
Chinese Proverb

"It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Lord Tennyson

"True is the grief you carry without witnesses."
Marcus Martialis

"You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long."
Boris Yeltsin

“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”
H. L. Mencken

"It is better to be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
Mark Twain

"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry"
Henry Ward Beecher

Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right.

“I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness.”
Elmer Diktonius

A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Though they may have won all the battles, we had all the good songs.”
Tom Lehrer

“When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.”
Mae West

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
Charlie Chaplin

“Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
Horace Walpole

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
David Lloyd George

“Love is the distance between reality and pain.”
Robin Hitchcock

“Hell Is Truth Seen Too Late.”

Burn as long as you live
Let no one kill your light
Burn so we all can see you
Refuse being a living dead
Graffiti, Gamlestan

“You should tell the truth, but all truths doesn't need to be told.”
Queen Katarina of Sweden

“A liar needs a good memory.”
Marcus Fabius Quintalianus

“I'm not cynical. Just experienced.”

“A Puritan is someone who is deathly afraid that someone, somewhere, is having fun. “

“Don't criticize what you don't understand.”
A Masonic saying

“Someone said life isn’t fair. Damn right it’s not fair! But it doesn’t have to be cruel.”
Tim Dewar

It's better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

“Judge someone not by their mistakes but rather how they react to them.”
Bradley Wilkins

"Was it love, or was it the thought of being in love?"
Pink Floyd

A true friend stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

Those who fear the thorns will never pick the roses

Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers.

It is better to break one’s heart than to do nothing with it.
Margaret Kennedy

Fashion is for people without personal taste.
Itamar Gilad

Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.

Dance like nobody's watching and love like its never going to hurt.

A man said to the Universe, 'Sir! I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe, 'The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'" Stephen Crane

“Forgive your enemies but never forget their names” John F. Kennedy

Maturity is the death of innocence. Benito Behar

You can live your life with a handful of regrets or you don't have to live your life at all Goo Goo Dolls

"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget."

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. H.G. Bissinger

When men speak ill of thee,so live that nobody believe them. Plato

I love you, not for what you are, but what I am when I am with you.

“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.” James Dean

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin

"The most important thing in conversation is hearing what isn't being said." R. Lanz

"Words and memories are the only thing that last." R. Lanz

Do not cut what you can untie.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire

“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees!!!” Battle cry from Spanish Civil War

“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.” Robert Frost

Turns out not where but who you're with that really matters. Dave Mathew's Band

"Of course he has a knife. He always has a knife.We all have knives.It's 1183, and we're barbarians." Lion in Winter

"The strong are strongest alone."

Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

"Or, at least, one-tenth of the cabin trunks were full of vivid and often painful and uncomfortable memories of her past life; the other nine-tenths were full of penguins, which suprised her. Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized she must be exploring her own subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed to use only about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was very clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins." Douglas Adams

One who has a strong body will be a warrior for a generation, One who has a great wisdom will be a hero for thousands of generations.

Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.

Choose your friends carefully; your enemies will choose you.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

The only difference betweena hero and a coward, is the direction in which he runs.

Dealing with conflict is sometimes painful and not much fun. Not dealing with conflict is always painful and not much fun.

The Sharper The Thorn, The Sweeter The Rose.

Know where your clothing and weapons are, even in the dark.

What you give away with love, you keep.

Honor Is It's Own Reward.

A life without honor is no life at all.

If you wear a smile, they think you really know.

Art is inborn, craft outborn.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

The vilest creature in the world is a liar.

The less ability, the greater noise.

Steel is strong. Flesh is stronger. Will is strongest.

All history begins between a woman's legs.

Domine, libera nos a furore normannorum Sed praesepe, Domine, a humore eorum

Lord, save us from the rage of the Nordic people But especially, Lord, from their mirth

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

Hate is baggage, life's too short to be pissed off all the time, its just not worth it.