My Very Favorite Quotations These are quotations that I have found particularly humorous, helpful, profound or that rang intensely true at some point in my life. Some most accurately represent my beliefs and thoughts about the world. Presented here in no particular order....enjoy!
**The English language is the result of Norman soldiers trying to set up dates with Saxon barmaids.
**Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. (Goethe)
**If you can't see the bright side, polish up the dark one and look at that.
**I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long. (Shelley Winters)
**You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink. (Terry Pratchett)
**A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. (Rabindranath Tagore)
**I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. (EB White)
**How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all color-blind?
**Whenever I get a little money, I buy books, and if there's any left, I buy food. (Erasmus)
**It's the speech that most annoys us that deserves the greatest protection. Speech that doesn't offend anyone doesn't need protection because nobody will try to suppress it.
**If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. (Edith Wharton)
**People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
(St. Augustine)**There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island ... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. (Walt Disney)
**Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
**The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. (Eden Phillpotts)
**I'm not so in love with facts as I used to be. Sometimes, they bite. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
**Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer. (ME Sangster)
**Nothing is worth more than this day. (Goethe)
**All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost. (JRR Tolkien)**If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything. (William Faulkner)
**I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth and I am a citizen of the world. (Eugene Debs)
**It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin)
**Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground. (Terry Pratchett)
**Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. (Chief Seattle)
**And Max, the king of all Wild Things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. (Maurice Sendak)
**No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
(Dave Barry)**As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. (Stephen Graham)
**Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books 3 to 1... (LM Boyd)
**My life is strewn with cowpats from the devil's own Satanic herd. (Black Adder)
**I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone. (Bernard Gilpin)
**I said it, you read it, I'm not taking it back. (Drew Lanz)
**The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
**Some see the glass as half empty; others see the glass as half full. I wonder who's been drinking my stuff? (Frank the fazed one)
**Some see the glass as half-empty; others see the glass as half full. We dump it out and laugh.
**Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet, and the winds long to play with your hair. (Kahlil Gibran)
**People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
**I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. (Alice Roosevelt Longworth)
**Each of us has a Golden Fleece to seek, and a wild sea to sail over ere we reach it, and dragons to fight ere it be ours. (Charles Kingsley)
**If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
**If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. (Richard Bach)
**I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. (Winston Churchill)
**I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
**If you think you are too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito.
**I attribute my success to this--I never gave or took any excuse. (Florence Nightengale)
**Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. (Harvey Fierstein)
**From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were -- I have not seen
As others saw. (Edgar Allan Poe)**As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. (Dick Cavett)
**I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend, to the death, your right to say it. (Voltaire)
**A knowledge of Sanskrit is of little use to a man trapped in a sewer.
**Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of the rest of us.
**Murder is a crime. Writing about it isn't. Sex is not a crime, but writing about it is. Why? (Larry Flynt)
**I take a simple view of life: Keep your eyes open and get on with it. (Sir Laurence Olivier)
**I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. (Henry David Thoreau)
**Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe. Sometimes I think we're not. In both cases the thought is equally shocking. (Arthur C. Clarke)
**The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. (Mahatma Gandhi)
**Like I said before, your body is *not* a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. (Anthony Bourdain)
**Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. (Angela Monet)
**Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
**We're all in this together--by ourselves. (Lily Tomlin)
**We are born wet, naked and screaming. If we live right, this doesn't have to change.
**We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. (Marcel Proust)
**Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. (Michel de Montaigne)
**The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
(Samuel Butler)**I pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora, fauna and human life that it supports, one planet indivisible, with safe air, water & soil, economic justice, equal rights and peace for all. (Author unknown, proposed new Pledge of Allegiance)
**Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. (Rachel Carson)
**What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
(Christopher Fry)**There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.
**If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud.
**Goddess grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. (Spuddie)
**A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. (M. Fuller)
**Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. (Sandra Carey)
**America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased. (P.J. O'Rourke)
**I believe in rain, in odd miracles, in the intelligence that allows terns and swallows to find their way across Earth. (Paul Hawkins)
**Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. (J.R.R. Tolkien)
**If you won't write it and sign it, don't say it. (Earl Wilson)
**The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. (Anais Nin)
**I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. (Emily Bronte)
**If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. (Frank Zappa)
**Magic is seldom spectacular because it seldom needs to be. (Donald Tyson)
And last, but not least, this one...which is pretty much my all-time favorite. If I had to pick just one. Which I don't, really, but...here it is: :-)
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
(William Shakespeare)