i did, and couldn't agree more. actually, if i went digging through my long, lost stuff, probably i could find this old t-shirt with al dressed in hawaiian garb and playing a banjo/ukele, with his hair all white and long and out of control, and that quote written out beneath it. got her for about $12 somewhere, but i spilled beer all over it one night and then started wearing it to soccer practice.. thing is so covered in mud even i don't wear it out into public anymore!
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
~Friedrich Nietzsche.
Into my heart's treasury
I slipped a coin,
That time cannot rust
Nor a thief purloin
Ah, better than the minting
Of a gold crowned king
Is the safe kept memory
Of a lovely thing.
Sara Teasdale
I guess it's not really a quote.. well, it's not actually.. but I like it.
"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."
"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."
"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."
"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little."
~i could do this until my eyes bleed, but then i would want to sleep even less.
Life is a series of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
~ Corita Kent
There is only one success - to be able to live your life in your own way.
~ Christopher Morley
Success isn't measured by the position you reach in life; it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.
~ Booker T. Washington
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
~ Sheila Graham
Success is never a destination - it's a journey.
~ Satenig St. Marie
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
~Susan Sontag
The ideal male has the strength of a male and the compassion of a female.
~Zohar
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
~Jean Kerr
Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
~J.M. Barrie
It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men.
~Mae West
"Words are like the wind which pass through without leaving an impression. Actions are the sole reflection of true thoughts and feelings. It is only what is seen through action that defines a person."
"Words are like the wind which pass through without leaving an impression. Actions are the sole reflection of true thoughts and feelings. It is only what is seen through action that defines a person."
good one!
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
~ Linda Ellerbee
Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers? Men don't like flowers. I've been wearing a great scent. It's called New Car Interior.
~ Rita Rudner
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.
~ Zenna Schaffer
Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.
~ Tim Allen
If a woman gets nervous, she'll eat or go shopping. A man will attack a country - it's a whole other way of thinking.
~ Elayne Boosler
"Words are like the wind which pass through without leaving an impression. Actions are the sole reflection of true thoughts and feelings. It is only what is seen through action that defines a person."
True fuckin' story!!! I want to know who said that!
"You think I got my eyes closed but I'm lookin' at you the whole fuckin' time..."
History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce.
-Karl Marx-
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
-Torqueville-
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
-Charles Montesquieu-
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
~ Margaret Atwood
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
~ Lynn Hall
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
"All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
~ Charles Swindoll
Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
~ Virginia Satir
Remember, life is not what happens to you but what you make of what happens to you. Everyone dies, but not everyone fully lives. Too many people are having 'near-life experiences.'
~ Anonymous
Comments
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
~Friedrich Nietzsche.
see Ed's church?--he's breathing fire.....
-- will farrel channeling george w bush
Books are gates to lands of pleasure
Bookds are paths that upward lead,
Books are friends, Come, let us read.
-Emilie Poulsson
hehe. excellent. in keeping with this thought, paraphrasing mae west i believe:
when i am good i am bad, but when i am bad, i am even better.
Pleasure: An agreeable feeling caused by getting the last laugh, having the last word, or paying the last installment.
~ Evan Esar
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
~ Oscar Wilde
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~ Walter Bagehot
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I don't think of all the misery but the beauty that still remains.
~ Anne Frank
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
I slipped a coin,
That time cannot rust
Nor a thief purloin
Ah, better than the minting
Of a gold crowned king
Is the safe kept memory
Of a lovely thing.
Sara Teasdale
I guess it's not really a quote.. well, it's not actually.. but I like it.
~i could do this until my eyes bleed, but then i would want to sleep even less.
see Ed's church?--he's breathing fire.....
~ Ice Queen
~ Corita Kent
There is only one success - to be able to live your life in your own way.
~ Christopher Morley
Success isn't measured by the position you reach in life; it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.
~ Booker T. Washington
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
~ Sheila Graham
Success is never a destination - it's a journey.
~ Satenig St. Marie
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Ice Queen
~ Anonymous
If you are looking for a friend that has no faults, you will have no friends.
~ Hasidic folk saying
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
~ Oscar Wilde
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Harry Emerson Fosdick
~ Tennessee Williams
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
~ Rose Kennedy
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Life is too tragic for sadness. Let us rejoice.
~ Edward Abbey
Life is far too an important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
~ Oscar Wilde
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Ice Queen
~Susan Sontag
The ideal male has the strength of a male and the compassion of a female.
~Zohar
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
~Jean Kerr
Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
~J.M. Barrie
It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men.
~Mae West
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Ice Queen
good one!
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
~ Linda Ellerbee
Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers? Men don't like flowers. I've been wearing a great scent. It's called New Car Interior.
~ Rita Rudner
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.
~ Zenna Schaffer
Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.
~ Tim Allen
If a woman gets nervous, she'll eat or go shopping. A man will attack a country - it's a whole other way of thinking.
~ Elayne Boosler
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Hermaine Gingold
When men reach their sixites and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
~ Gail Sheehy
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
~ Faith Whittlesey
I hate women becasue they always know where things are.
~ James Thurber
We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.
~ Ivy Baker Priest
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
I bank at a woman's bank. It's closed three or four days a month due to cramps.
~ Judy Carter
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - and then they marry him.
~ Cher
Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough (2) Too much.
~ Ann Landers
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
~ Barbra Streisand
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Albert Einstein
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
~ Charles Lamb
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
~ Bernard Berenson
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
True fuckin' story!!! I want to know who said that!
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
~ Henry Ford
There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
~ Max Beerbohm
To lose is to learn.
~ Anonymous
Failure is success if we learn from it.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
~Miriam Toews, from her novel a complicated kindness
~ Paul Theroux
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
-Karl Marx-
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
-Torqueville-
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
-Charles Montesquieu-
Only the dead have seen the end of war
-Plato-
~ Margaret Atwood
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
~ Lynn Hall
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
~ James Russell Lowell
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~ George Moore
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
don't matter, and those who matter don't mind"
Dr. Seuss
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
~ Charles Swindoll
Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
~ Virginia Satir
Remember, life is not what happens to you but what you make of what happens to you. Everyone dies, but not everyone fully lives. Too many people are having 'near-life experiences.'
~ Anonymous
"I'd love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eye"
edit: my spelling is bad......