Just A Few of My
Favorite Quotes

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau


Anticipation joins with memory, tearing my soul in torment...
Petrarch, "Life Hurries On"


Only fools dream of the one thing they can't have.
King Arthur, First Knight


Silence is a text easy to misread.
A.A. Attanasio


I hate and love.  Perhaps you ask how I can do this?
I know not, but I feel it so, and I am in agony.
Catullus, "Love and Hate"


Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday-
was it worth it?


God gave us burdens, also shoulders and friends.


True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring---once the tale of encounter is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome...except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them.  As with any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners.  And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.
Stephen King
The Dark Tower IV   Wizard and Glass


Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.
Marshall Ganz


Woeful his fate whose doom is to wait
With longing heart for an absent love.
"The Wife's Lament"


In adversity a man is saved by hope.
Menander, "Fragments"


The very substance of the ambitious is merely
the shadow of a dream.
Shakespeare's "Hamlet"


Thy friendship often has made my heart to ache:
Do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
William Blake


Sometimes I think it's right to do the wrong thing.
Pacey, "Dawson's Creek"


The future belongs to those who believe in the
beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt


The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die
nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is
that he wants to live humbly for one.
The Catcher in the Rye


Fools rush in where fools have been before.

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