When I'm dating I look at a guy and wonder, "Is this the man i want my children to spend their weekends with?"
~ Rita Rudner
Let's face it, a date is like a job interview that lasts all night. The only difference between the two is that there are very few job interviews where there's a chance you will end up naked at the end of it.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.
~ Deborah Kerr
A gril can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
~ Cher
I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you?"
~ Larry Miller
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
~ Mae West
In Hollywood a marriage is a great success if it outlasts milk.
~ Rita Rudner
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
~ Ogden Nash
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to carry out the trash.
~ Joyce Brothers
A successful marriage requires falling in love several times, always with the same person.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.
~ Anonymous
All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
~ Shelley Winters
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
~ Clint Eastwood
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
~ Agatha Christie
"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer". - Albert Camus
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction". - Antoine de Saint Exupery
"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle". - Albert Einstein
"A great man calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. A small man does just the opposite." - Confucius
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom". - Anais Nin
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars". -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am not going to die. I'm going home like a shooting star." - Sojourner Truth
"When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world". - Maha Ghosananda
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art". - Leonardo da Vinci
"What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset". - Chief Isapwo Muksika Crowfoot
"How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a naughty world". - William Shakespeare
"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives" -Sartre.
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else.
~ Jean Kerr
My parents want me to get married. They don't care who anymore as long as he doesn't have a pierced ear, that's all they care about. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
~ Rita Rudner
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck - if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
~ Jean Kerr
It's not that I am afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
~ Woody Allen
If you bemoan your brief stay on earth, consider the mayfly which only lives for one day. If the weather were bad that day, your whole life could be rained out.
~ Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
~ Joe Louis
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its joy.
~ Anonymous
Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present, enjoy the present.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Walk away from it until you are stronger. All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my cheif duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
~ Helen Keller
Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present, enjoy the present.
~ Henry David Thoreau
- Sounds like a song I have heard.......:)
So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
Never a lip curled with pain
That can't be kissed into smiles again.
~ Bret Harte
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
~ Ericka Jong
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but that is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
~ Wayne Dwyer
"Life in this physical body is very short, even if we live to be 100 years old. When I discovered this, I decided not to waste my time creating conflict, mainly with the people I love... "
~Don Miguel Ruiz~
Exercising her will to lose control...
she lets go
"We don't do EVERY hotel room. We've done about three in our lifetimes. (As of 1994!) We're not that fucking cliche, man. It's not like we walk into a hotel and go, okay, that T.V. goes out the window straight away!"
- Liam Gallagher
"There was this bug in my room and I thought, 'you can fook off, this is my room.' "
- Liam Gallagher
"Nothing bothers me more than when groups like Pearl Jam and Nirvana whine and moan and complain about life and being famous. Let me tell you, being famous is great! The feeling when someone asks you for an autograph, unbelieveable! I just think Americans are tired of people telling them how crap their lives are. I think when people listen to our music, we tell them how good their lives could be. I guess I just can't understand the thoughts of Eddie Vedder or that whole bit... I mean, lad, if you hate your job so much, why don't you fuckin' go work at a car wash or McDonald's or something?"
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."- Emerson
"What is crueler? To let a wound of the heart fester, or to simply cut it out?"- Crovax
"Everyone wants to be the sun that lights up your life, but I'd rather be your moon so I can shine on you during your darkest hour when your sun's not around."
I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
~ Emerson
:rolleyes: so lovely..
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words: Ich bin ein Berliner!"
~John F. Kennedy.
Counting time is not nearly as important as making time count.
~ James J. Walker
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
~ Bertrand Russell
btw - so nice to see many new names posting here, and regularly too. sweet.
i feel like playing too...
all 3 of these quotes are great choice-selections... and i especially like the russell.... damn mathematician-philosophers...! wait,... that doesn't make any sense....???
anyway, here's a fun-one!:
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."~A.Einstein.
all 3 of these quotes are great choice-selections... and i especially like the russell.... damn mathematician-philosophers...! wait,... that doesn't make any sense....???
anyway, here's a fun-one!:
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."~A.Einstein.
Comments
~ Rita Rudner
Let's face it, a date is like a job interview that lasts all night. The only difference between the two is that there are very few job interviews where there's a chance you will end up naked at the end of it.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.
~ Deborah Kerr
A gril can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
~ Cher
I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you?"
~ Larry Miller
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
~ Mae West
In Hollywood a marriage is a great success if it outlasts milk.
~ Rita Rudner
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Ogden Nash
Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to carry out the trash.
~ Joyce Brothers
A successful marriage requires falling in love several times, always with the same person.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.
~ Anonymous
All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
~ Shelley Winters
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
~ Clint Eastwood
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
~ Agatha Christie
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction". - Antoine de Saint Exupery
"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle". - Albert Einstein
"A great man calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. A small man does just the opposite." - Confucius
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom". - Anais Nin
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars". -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am not going to die. I'm going home like a shooting star." - Sojourner Truth
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
~ Samuel Johnson
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.
~ Montaigne
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
~ Norman Cousins
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art". - Leonardo da Vinci
"What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset". - Chief Isapwo Muksika Crowfoot
"How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a naughty world". - William Shakespeare
--P. Farrell
also my sig.
so glad this is still here.
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else.
~ Jean Kerr
My parents want me to get married. They don't care who anymore as long as he doesn't have a pierced ear, that's all they care about. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
~ Rita Rudner
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck - if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
~ Jean Kerr
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
"When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble."
one for myself
"There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting"
one for ..someone
"The trouble with political jokes is that very often they get elected."
I'm no dude! Dudette!
~ Woody Allen
If you bemoan your brief stay on earth, consider the mayfly which only lives for one day. If the weather were bad that day, your whole life could be rained out.
~ Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
~ Joe Louis
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its joy.
~ Anonymous
Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present, enjoy the present.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Walk away from it until you are stronger. All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my cheif duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
~ Helen Keller
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
- Sounds like a song I have heard.......:)
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
~ Woody Allen
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
~ Tom Stoppard
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the UP button.
~ Sam Levinson
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
That can't be kissed into smiles again.
~ Bret Harte
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
~ Ericka Jong
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but that is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
~ Wayne Dwyer
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~Don Miguel Ruiz~
she lets go
~ Ice Queen
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence”
- Liam Gallagher
"There was this bug in my room and I thought, 'you can fook off, this is my room.' "
- Liam Gallagher
-Noel Gallagher
"What is crueler? To let a wound of the heart fester, or to simply cut it out?"- Crovax
~ Ice Queen
WAY too scary for me to even think about.
~ Ice Queen
~ James J. Walker
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
~ Bertrand Russell
btw - so nice to see many new names posting here, and regularly too. sweet.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words: Ich bin ein Berliner!"
~John F. Kennedy.
http://www.thecityreview.com/books2.html
i feel like playing too...
all 3 of these quotes are great choice-selections... and i especially like the russell.... damn mathematician-philosophers...! wait,... that doesn't make any sense....???
anyway, here's a fun-one!:
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."~A.Einstein.
see Ed's church?--he's breathing fire.....
Did you read my quote bye Einstein?
" Imagination is greater than knowledge"
one of my favourites.