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Favorite Quotes

Yes, sadly, I am a fool, and as such I enjoy a good quote whether it be comical or meaningful. Please, turn away from me in shame.



"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

W.M. Lewis

"My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends --
It gives a lovely light."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"LIFE has become richer by the love that has been lost."

Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds"

"Swans have an air of being proud, stupid, and mischievous - three qualities that go well together."

Diderot

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

Hector Berlioz

"How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?"

Forster

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."

Roosevelt

"THE night opens the flowers in secret and allows the day to get thanks."

Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds"

"All women become like their mothers, that is their tragedy; no man does, that is his."

Oscar Wilde

"Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm."

La Rochefoucauld

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Mark Twain

"The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks."

La Rochefoucauld

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."

Wilde

"If a man's education is finished, he is finished."

Edward Filene

"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."

Stendhal

"All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last."

Proust

"THE woodcutter's axe begged for its handle from the tree.
The tree gave it."

Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds"

"WE live in this world when we love it."

Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds"

"Some men are great successes in making money, but failures in choosing ways to spend it."

Anonymous

"Marriage is like any other job -- it's much easier when you like your boss."

Anonymous

"You live and learn, or you don't live long."

Robert Heinlein

"That money talks
I won't deny.
I heard it once,
It said, 'Goodbye.'"

Richard Armour

"THE bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air."

Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds"

"Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong."

Oscar Wilde

"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking."

Earl Wilson

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."

Jules de Gautier



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