Favorite Quotes "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." --Mark Twain "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." --Ralph Waldo Emmerson "When written in Chinese the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." --John Kennedy "The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." --Henry Ford "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill "Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning." --Winston Churchill "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never- in nothing, great or small, large or petty- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." --Winston Churchill "You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn." --Benjamin Franklin "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." --Albert von Szent-Gyorgy "The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do." --Nan Fairbrother "The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life." --Lydia Maria Child "Cherish your wishes and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul and the blueprints of your ultimate achievement." --Unknown "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." --Mark Twain "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." --Dale Carnegie "Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." --Mark Twain "Behold the turtle, He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out." --James Bryant Conant "Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your miskakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them." --Lucy Maud Montgomery "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." --Bill Cosby Work like you don't need the money Love like you have never been hurt And Dance like no one is watching --Unknown "There are only 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 "He who angers you conquers you." --Elizbeth Kenny "The future depends on what we do in the present." --Gandhi "Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur." --Muriel Spark “It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.” -- Arnold Bennett "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." --Ziggy "I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are." --Milton Berle "I wish they would only take me as I am." --Vincent Van Gogh, Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh Funny Quotes "People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." --Anonymous "Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel its warmth." --from napkin.org "if a flower's mouth is in its roots and underground, then aren't we smelling its ass?" --from napkin.org "Two rules for life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. --Unknown "Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc., for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in. Then along came the first Electrical Pioneer, Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite in a lighting storm and received a serious electrical shock. This proved that lighting was powered by the same force as carpets, but it also damaged Franklin's brain so severely that he started speaking only in incomprehensible maxims, such as 'A penny saved is a penny earned.' Eventually he had to be given a job running the post office." --Dave Barry "There's a time that you can share, that you can hold hands and be on the same path...but there's always a fork in the road...at some point...and sometimes you have to go on one part of the fork and they got to go on the other part of the fork...or just down the back part of the fork while you go forward, and they're like...or they got a salad fork and you have one of the big dinner forks and you have longer to go and they're like done...because that's it...they're stuck on a piece of food...or a dessert fork…or like one of those, you know, small little shrimp forks and crab forks and you're trying to get out a crab...they're like that and your over here jumping to the huge serving fork or something like that...or a ladle, you know..." --Gerhardt, "28 Days" Scully: "I'm special agent Dana Scully..." Man: "WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT YOU?!?!?!?!?" The X-Files, "Fight Club" Back Home