Grumpybear's Quotes Page
I have been collecting quotes since my freshman year in high school. This is my collection to date, and I felt that I really should share them. Enjoy!
To the world, you may only be one person, but to one person, you may be the world.
--Anon
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. you get them from what's eating you.
--Anon
Walk in faith, trust in love.
--Anon
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
--Andre Gide
The more you suffer the more it shows you really care.
--Offspring
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
--Anon
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
--John Wooden
Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
--Shakespeare
The truly great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
--Winston Churchill
Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.
--Martin Luthur King, Jr.
I don't care what's written about me, so long as it isn't true.
--Katherine Hepburn
Even a blind man knows when the sun is shining.
--Grateful Dead
The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
--Aerosmith
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
--Frances Bacon
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
--Fletcher Knebel
The only completely consistent people are dead.
--Aldous
A closed book is a closed mind.
--Anon
Everyone is gifted--some just open their packages a little earlier.
--Anon
I've seen too much not to have seen enough.
--Stephen Lackage
If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?
--Juliana Hatfield
On yearbooks: The theme...as if you could take an entire school of people and give th em a theme.
--My So-Called Life
A heart that hurts is a heart that works.
--Juliana Hatfield
Nationalities will continue to try to get ahead of one another if we keep calling them 'races.'
--Anon
The darkest hour is only 60 minutes long.
--Anon
The reason you can't fool all of the people all of the time is because half of the people are women.
--Anon
I'm never gonna say I'm sorry for the essence of my soul.
--Jonas Berggman
I've learned that love doesn't fade with time, if it was there to begin with.
--Amanda Rubenacker
All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
--O. Henry
The smallest oceans still make big big waves.
--Eddie Vedder
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
--Marge Piercy
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist, that is all.
--Oscar Wilde
When you hold somebody, hold them like it's the last time you're gonna see 'em.
--Janis Joplin
I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.
--Fred Allen
And so castles made of sand melt into the sea eventually.
--Jimi Hendrix
When you ain't got nothin', you've got nothin' to lose.
--Bob Dylan
The course of love never did run smooth.
--Shakespeare
Waiter, there's a fly in my soup!
--Kermit the Frog
Living is easy with eyes closed. Misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works o ut. It doesn't matter much to me.
--The Beatles
I've known him as a man, as an adolescent, and as a child--sometimes on the same day.
--unkown
We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.
--Native American saying
Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift, which is why we call it the present.
--Bill Keane
A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.
--unknown
The Bible tell us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
--Mark Twain
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
--Christopher Hampton
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
--Walt Disney
Shoot for the moon--even if you miss you will land among the stars.
--unknown
There are no strangers here--just friends you have not met.
--unknown
The trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out as "fun".
--unknown
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
--Albert Einstein
I dream, therefore I exist.
--unknown
Everyone always says to be yourself...like "yourself" is this definite thing...like a toaster, or something.
--Angela, My So-Called Life
He who never sticks out his nexk, never wins by a nose.
--unknown
True love is like ghosts, which many talk about, but few have seen.
--La Rochefoucauld
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
--Charles C. Colton
Love is like wildflowers, it grows in the strangest places.
--unknown
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
--unknown
Futile is the heart of ice that resists the arrows of fire.
--unknown
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
--Lao Tzu
I must find a truth that is true for me...The idea for which I live or die.
--Soren
Ask again later.
--Magic 8 Ball
Sometimes angels come down to earth without wings...we call them friends.
--unknown
You can't judge a book by it's cover, but you can tell how much it's gonna cost.
--Some Kind of Wonderful
Love is like an hourglass with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
--Jules Renard
A man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't.
--Mark Twain
Enjoy life sip by sip, not gulp by gulp.
--Minister of Leaves
Remember the tea kettle--it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings.
--unknown
If a boy gives a girl a rose a day for twelve days rather than a dozen roses all at once it would surely have a greater impact.
--Frances Hemerston
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
--Calvin and Hobbes
You can't run away from trouble...ain't no place that far.
--Splash Mountain, Disney World
I may only be one person, but I can be one person who makes a difference.
--The Land, Epcot Center
I knew when looking back on the times we cried, I would laugh, but I never thought when looking back on the times we laughed, I would cry.
--unknown
If I could give you but one gift, my friend, it would be the gift to see yourself as others see you. Then, you would realize how truly special you are.
--unknown
He who gossips with you will gossip of you.
--unknown
People throwing themselves at other people is like, the basis of civilization.
--Rayanne, My So-Called Life
Even a woodpecker owes his sucess to the fact that he uses his head.
--unknown
Idiocy is the essence of the male mind.
--Calvin and Hobbes
Studies in Contemporary State-Sponsored Terrorism...Also known as gym class.
--Calvin and Hobbes
I asked Mom if I was a gifted child...She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.
--Calvin and Hobbes
You set up your place in my heart, moved in and made my thinking crowded.
--Indigo Girls
I will not call my teacher "Hot Cakes."
--Bart Simpson
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
--George Orwell, Animal Farm
I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of talking.
--The Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing, but you mean your mother.
--unknown
And in the end, the love we take is equal to the love we make.
--The Beatles
If I never loved, I never would have cried.
--Simon and Garfunkel, "I Am a Rock"
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only reason some people get lost in thought is becuase it's unfamiliar territory.
--Paul Fix
Common sense is the collection of prejudices accquired by age eighteen.
--Albert Einstein
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
--Sean O'Casey
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
--Josh Billings
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
--Monta Crane
Make your life a mission, not an intermission.
--Glasgow
Nevermind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
--Edmund Gosse
Love is touching souls.
--Joni Mitchell, "A Case of You"
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Kiss: a contraction of the lips caused by an explosion of the heart.
--unkown
It is easier to leave angry words unspoken than to mend a heart those words have broken.
--John Roger