"I wanted a perfect ending...Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

-- Gilda Radner

"No good deed ever goes unpunished."

--Brooks Thomas

"Beware the fury of a patient man."

--John Dryen

"Everybody has problems, but the thing is to not make a problem about your Problem. For example, if you have no money and you worry about it all the time, youll get an ulcer and have a real problem and you still won't have any money because people sense when you're desperate and nobody wants anything to do with a desperate person. But if you dont care about having no money, then people will give you money because you don't care and they'll think it's nothing and give it away--make you take it. But if you have a problem about having no money and taking money and think you can't take it and get guilty and want to be independent, then it's a problem. Whereas if you just take the money and act spoiled and spend it like it's nothing, then its' not a problem and people keep wanting to give you more."

-Andy Warhol

"Sometimes the little times you dont think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life."

-Andy Warhol,

"The moment you label something, you take a step--I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled."

-Andy Warhol,

"Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

-T.S. Eliot

"He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong ......''

-Nietzsche

"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."

-Thomas Edison

"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, Walden

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

-Henry David Thoreau

"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."

-Henry David Thoreau

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

-Henry David Thoreau

"In the end, everything is a gag."

- Charlie Chaplin

" I am not young enough to know everything."

- Oscar Wilde

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."

- Mae West

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."

- Robert Orben

"When I die I'd go to heaven for the weather and hell for the company."

-- Mark Twain

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. "

-- Oscar Wilde.

"Ack, Ptui!!! "

-- Bill the Cat.

"Many of the truths we cling to depend on our own point of view."

-- Yoda, from Star Wars

"I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with."

-- Plato

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

-Confucius

"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times."

--Mark Twain

"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."

--Chinese Proverb

"I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time."

--Mark Twain

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

--Mark Twain

"There are things about me you wouldn't understand, things you couldn't understand, things you shouldn't understand."

-Pee Wee Herman

"When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."

--Marquis de Lagrange

" I was born modest; not all over, but in spots"

--Mark Twain

"Cheer up, the worst is yet to come."

--Philander Johnson

"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."

--Thomas A. Edison

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity."

--Albert Einstein

" When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."

--Mark Twain

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