Notable Quotables

Never, Never, Never, Never give up. -Winston Churchill

"I like to keep my friends close, and my enemies closer." -Matt Hoag

Great things are done by people who think great thoughts and then go out into the world to make their dreams come true. -Ernest Holmes

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. -Author Unknown

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. -Rumi

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. -Earl Nightingale

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations. *

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. -George Bernard Shaw

The harder you work the harder it is to surrender. *

"Chinese proverb - He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

"Have a strong mind and a soft heart." - Anthony J. D'Angelo: The College Blue Book

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler

When we were real, we were in love with everyone and everything." -- 'Real', The Verve Pipe

"As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need -- tremendous self-control." - Ashleigh Brilliant

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up." - Phyllis Diller

"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." - Ashleigh Brilliant

Isn't it wierd that we drink milk, stuff designed to nourish baby cows? How did THAT happen? Did some cattleman once say, "Oh, man, I can't wait till them calves are done so I can get ME a hit of that stuff." The Washington Post

All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone to make us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, someone perfect is searching for us. -Fred Savage (Kevin Arnold) The Wonder Years

"Maybe a great magnet pulls all souls toward the truth. Or maybe it is life itself, that feeds wisdom to its youth." kd lang "Constant Craving"

Tao Te Ching: "Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven."

"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? but, can they suffer?"-Jeremy Bentham, philospoher

"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."-Nabovov

"The will to win is not worth a nickle, unless you have the will to practice."

"Just being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion."

55) "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."-The Serenity Prayer

56) "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Did you ever try to pick one of those [cold medicines] out?...You stand there going, 'Well, this one is quick acting, but this one is long lasting...Which is more important, the present or the future?'"-Jerry Seinfeld

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."-Calvin Coolidge

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is as well to remember that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." Oscar Wilde

In our way of life, with every decision we make, we always keep in mind the Seventh Generation of children to come. When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant out feet carefully, because we know that the faces of future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground. We never forget them. -- Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation --

"Of the delights of this world,man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven." -Mark Twain

"God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion." -Homer Simpson