quotables

Earthgirl

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

decides2dream

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
~ 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

vmfury

"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."

decides2dream

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

vmfury

"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."

decides2dream

vmfury wrote:

"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

decides2dream

Fighting is esentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
~ 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

decides2dream

There's really nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all a man's advances, darling, as long as they are in cash.
~ 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

decides2dream

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
~ 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

Ayedavanita

vmfury wrote:

"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!

decides2dream

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decides2dream

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
~ 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

lanners

Dear Jesus, please let me one day hang out with Neil Young and Joni Mitchell and turn my grief into hits.

~Miriam Toews, from her novel a complicated kindness

decides2dream

The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.
~ 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

BrotherLoveBone

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-

Only the dead have seen the end of war
-Plato-

mariposa

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

decides2dream

A wise man travels to discover himself.
~ 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

Lizard

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind
don't matter, and those who matter don't mind"

Dr. Seuss

dreamncolor

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

Ayedavanita

After I listened to a message I received earlier today, I heard this song. Thought the quote was fitting!

"I'd love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eye"

edit: my spelling is bad......