ON LIFE

To him who is in fear everything rustles. 
-Sophocles

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
--William Gibbs McAdoo

"I made a mistake today.  I made a mistake yesterday.   I
think it's ... very important to ignore the negative."
--Jerry Rubin

"Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success.
What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing
persistence."
--Lisa M. Amos

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm."
--Winston Churchill

"No one from the beginning of time has had security."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people
being afraid to go straight at things."
--William J. Locke

People only see what they are prepared to see.
-Emerson, Ralph Waldo 

A good book has no ending. 
-R.D. Cumming

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is 
trying to please everybody.
-- Bill Cosby

"Decide what you think is right and stick to it."
--George Eliot

"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions.  Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you, too, can become great."
--Mark Twain

"If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to
get there?"
--Basil S. Walsh

You are smarter than you think, braver than you believe, 
and stronger than you seem.
-winnie the pooh

People who never get carried away should be.
-- Malcolm Forbes

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
-- Catfish Hunter

"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end
that we should hear and see more than we speak."
Socrates

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
-- Confucius

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. 
Learn as if you were to live forever."
-Gandhi

"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You
may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg."
-Anonymous

You can complain because roses have thorns, 
or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
--Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbac

"Television has proved that people will look at anything
rather than each other"
                      --Ann Landers

"I don't know! I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it,
and I don't know why I'll do it again!"
--Bart Simpson

ON LOVE AND LOVING

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. 
--Franklin P. Jones 

It is better to be hated for what you are 
than to be loved for what you are not.
--Andre Gide

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what
you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the
limo breaks down."
--Oprah Winfrey

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair 
but manifestations of strength and resolution.
--Gibran, Kahil 

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
--Keyes, Ken Jr. 

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings

"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."
--Marcus Aurelius

"I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun"
--Mr. Darcy's answer when asked by Elizabeth when he first fell in love w/ her in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice(p. 338)

"Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of
useful things like...love!"
--Homer Simpson

"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to
come back home."
--Bill Cosby