It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.
>> Lucy Maud Montgomery

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
>> W. Somerset Maugham

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
>> Thomas A. Edison

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

>> Gilbert Chesterton

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
>> Oscar Wilde

If God did exist, he would have to be abolished. 

>> Mikhail Bakunin

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

>> W. Somerset Maugham

When one finds oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship.

>> John Renmerde

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

>> Jack Handey

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
>> Oscar Wilde

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

>> Charles Dickens

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
>> Michael Caine

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
>> Anthony J. D'Angelo

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

>> Lyndon B. Johnson

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
>> Sophocles

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.

>> W. Lee Grant

Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
>> Brian Tracy

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
>> Gustave Flaubert

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
>> Randy Pausch

"...sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
>> Marilyn Monroe

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
>> John C. Maxwell

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
>> George Bernard Shaw

Shine on me baby, cause it's raining in my heart.

>> Elliott Smith

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

>> Mark Twain

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

>> Mark Twain

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
>> James Matthew Barrie

Do not be the slave of first impressions.

>> Balthasar Gracian

A writer is a foreign country.

>> Marguerite Duras

Nothing was ever accomplished with tears.

>> Absolem (Alice in Wonderland)

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

>> Gustave Flaubert

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.

>> Marilyn Penland

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.

>> W. Somerset Maugham

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

>> Jerome K. Jerome

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

>> Henry Ward Beecher

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell...their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

>> W. Somerset Maugham

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
>> Albert Camus

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
>> Gustave Flaubert

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

>> Mark Twain

The logic of the heart is absurd.

>> Julie De Lespinasse

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
>> Sam Keen

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
>> Carl Sandburg

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

>> Plutarch

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
>> Bill Nye

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
>> Sir Isaac Newton

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
>>W. Somerset Maugham

If you're not thinking straight does it mean you're thinking gay??

>> Justinthrustin (plurk.com/that1guyyep101)

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

>> Keith Richards

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

>> Mark Twain

No one can change a person, but someone can be a person's reason to change.

>> Sponge Bob

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once

you've lost it you can never get it back.

>> Harvey MacKay

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

>> Balthasar Gracian

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!

>> Owens Lee Pomeroy

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

>> Matthew McConaughey

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds -- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

>> Edward Everett Hale

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

>> Erma Bombeck

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

>> A. A. Milne

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

>> Jane Austen

I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
>> Theodor S. Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

>> Malcolm S. Forbes

In fact, we are addicted to love as much as we are to the person who generated it. [...] That love, even if not reciprocated, it became a souvenir, a memory of a beautiful time that was lived... It became an invaluable asset, a feeling to which we cling. It's part of us.

>> Martha Medeiros

Everyone is thinking about leaving a better planet for our children. When are we going to think about leaving better children for our planet?

>> G. 'Kura' Gil

Nobody has the power to make things perfect, but everyone is given countless chances to make things right. Enjoy the gift of life.

>> Emman Quintana

Sometimes we still stay in love with the same person even if we find reasons to move on.

>> Marielle Rosales

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

>> Maya Angelou

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of the friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
>> Muhammad Ali

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

>> Woody Allen

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

>> Catherine Ponder

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

>> Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

>> Charles M. Schulz

You can't spell 'therapist' without 'the rapist'.
>> Natalia Xavier (A.K.A. Me)

The past does not define you, the present does.

>> Jillian Michaels

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

>> Balthasar Gracian