Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ~Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. ~Violeta Parra
Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game. Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper. ~The X-Files
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ~Marvin Minsky
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Chapter 20
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ~Elsa Schiaparelli
The first requisite for immortality is death. ~Stanislaw J. Lec
Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You could move. ~Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby," in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood
War! that mad game the world so loves to play. ~Jonathan Swift
A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him. ~James A. Pike
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. ~Eric Hoffer Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special. ~Chris Rock
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Greg, age 8
It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times. ~Pearl S. Buck
Every man over forty is responsible for his face. ~Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. ~Edmund Burke
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. ~Wendell Phillips, Orations, Speeches, Lectures and Letters
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? ~Horace
The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting. ~Michel de Montaigne
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. ~Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. ~Author Unknown
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