contentMy life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek
Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Matt Groening
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
Madonna
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
J. K. Rowling
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Anne Tyler
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Clifton Fadiman
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Harold Wilson
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
W. Somerset Maugham
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
Katharine Whitehorn
But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.
David Assael,
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Jay Leno
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.
Randy K. Milholland
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte
The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.
Douglas Adams
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
You haven’t achieved equality until you’re a legitimate target for humor.
Scott Adams
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan Sontag
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray
Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.
Daniel Raeburn
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
Thomas Sowell
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
Clarence Darrow
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
Robertson Davies
Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Charles De Secondat
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
Lord Chesterfield
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Anonymous
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
Mark Twain
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.
Anne Lamott
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Alan Saporta
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
King Charles I
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'
Ann Landers
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."
Oprah Winfrey
We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.
W. H. Thompson
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sidney J. Harris
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Sir Winston Churchill
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
Susan Jeffers
If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?
Shantideva
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
Johnny Carson
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
Howard Newton
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.
Waiter Rant
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
C. S. Lewis
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
Fran Lebowitz
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Jay Leno
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Elsa Maxwell
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
Edgar Watson Howe
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Bob Newhart
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
