Friday, July 23, 2010

Lovely Quotes

"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks" Charles Dickens

"Here's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me." John Erskine

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable." Benjamin Franklin

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." Alfred Loyd Tennyson

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." Marcus Aelius Aurelius

"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball." jim Murray

"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest." Larry Lorenzoni

"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect." Benjamin Franklin

"A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground." Henry Louis Mencken

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" Thomas Jefferson

"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do." Victor Hugo

"You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God." Unknown

"I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side." Abraham Lincoln

"We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure." Sydney J Harris

"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table." Rodney Dangerfield

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." Helen Keller

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." Epictetus

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else." Chinese Proverb

"Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan." Abraham Lincoln

"Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly." George Eliot

"To those who despair of everything, reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred." Albert Camus

"What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life." Albert Einstein

"O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen" Saint Augustine

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington

"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." Alexander Hamilton

"He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes." Unknown

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds." Aristotle

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are." Milton Berle

"A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control." Proverbs 29:11

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." Mark Twain

"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" G K Chesterton

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." Aristotle

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase." Epictetus

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable." Benjamin Franklin

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence." Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence." Thomas Wolfe

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better." George Santayana

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." Irish Proverb

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." Winston Churchill

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." Albert Camus

"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose." Woody Allen

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather." Washington Irving

"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." Jimmy Durante

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Why so serious in life: Quotes!

Always laugh when you can. It is cheaper than medicine…

All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.

Life is a lesson you’ll learn it when you’re through.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Adults are just kids with money.

In order to be someone, you must first be yourself.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Don’t waste your time on a girl that isn’t willing to waste his time on you.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

A person who never makes mistakes never makes anything.

Never look back unless you're planning to go that way.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

The best proof of love is trust.

Anyone can hate. It costs to love.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Having nothing, nothing can you lose.

never frown because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

life's tough, get a helmet

love is like quicksand…the further u fall in, the harder it is to get out!!!

loving you is like breathing. how can i stop?

the best things in life are unseen thats why we close our eyes when we kiss cry and dream.

Math is like love - a simple idea, but it can get complicated.

Nobody ever said life was easy…they just promised that it would be worth it.

Life is not a game so don’t play it, if u don’t know how to win it.

i’m sorry i was your biggest mistake,
while you were quite possibly the best thing to ever happen to me.

if you want me to fall for you, you have to give me something worth tripping over

It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.

Life isnt always like burger king , you cant always have it your way