The perfect friend sees the best in you -- sees it constantly -- not just when you occasionally are that way, but also when you waver, when you forget yourself, act like less than you are. In time, you become more like his vision of you -- which is the person you have always wanted to be.
                                       -- Nancy Friday

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
                                       -- Mark Twain

To be beautiful is enough! If a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
                                       -- William Makepeace Thackeray

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
                                       -- Douglas Adams

Conference: A gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
                                       -- Fred Allen

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
                                       -- Aristotle

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
                                       -- Isaac Asimov

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!
                                       -- Isaac Asimov

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
                                       -- W. H. Auden

A musician cannot move others unless he himself is moved.
                                       -- Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.
                                       -- Richard Bach

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
                                       -- Alexander Graham Bell

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
                                       -- Vivekananda

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
                                       -- Publilius Syrus

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
                                       -- Johann van Goethe

Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
                                       -- C. Schulz

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
                                       -- George Bernard Shaw

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
                                       -- John Lennon, "Beautiful Boy"

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
                                       -- Leonardo da Vinci

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
                                       -- Mark Twain

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
                                       -- Jean Paul

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
                                       -- John Mason Brown, drama critic

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.
                                       -- Mark Twain

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
                                       -- Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
                                       -- Mark Twain

Don't despise your poor relations, they may become suddenly rich one day.
                                       -- Josh Billings

We are always getting ready to live but never living.
                                       -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, "Today I will be brilliant."
                                       -- "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3 (STAR TREK)

When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail.

Visits always give pleasure: if not on arrival, then on the departure.
                                       -- Edouard Le Berquier, "Pensees des Autres"

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.
                                       -- T.H. White

Confound these ancestors.... They've stolen our best ideas!
                                       -- Ben Jonson

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
                                       -- Groucho Marx

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
                                       -- Dr. Konrad Adenauer

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
                                       -- Dr. Johnson

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
                                       -- Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.
                                       -- Pope John Paul

I would rather be ashes than dust.
I would rather my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
                                       -- Jack London

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
                                       -- Leo Buscaglia

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I am happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
                                       -- Charles M. Schulz

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
                                       -- Alexander Hamilton

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
                                       -- Derek Bok (President of Harvard)

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
                                       -- John Updike

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have none.
                                       -- Doug Larson

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
                                       -- H.L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.

Time is unforgiving. That's why in Greenwich they call it mean.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

Laugh at your problems; everybody does.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having the good sense to be lazy.

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -- so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
                                       -- Matt Cartmill

Life is like a 10 speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
                                       -- C. Schultz

I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.
                                       -- Edgar Allan Poe

If you notice that a person is deceiving you, they must not be deceiving you very well.

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.

If you don't succeed at first, remove all evidence that you ever tried.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
                                       -- Anatole France

Whenever someone tells you to take their advice, you can be pretty sure that they're not using it.

To me flirting is like breathing, for you I am willing to stop breathing.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others' dreams, we can be together all the time.
                                       -- Hobbes

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take any chances.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
                                       -- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world.

Love isn't love, until you give it away.
                                       -- Oscar Hammerstein, The Sound of Music.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.
                                       -- F. W. Bourdillon

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
                                       -- Albert Einstein

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
                                       -- Robert Frost

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
                                       -- Antoine de Saint Exupery

Real love stories never have endings.
                                       -- Richard Bach

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love makes the ride worthwhile.
                                       -- Franklin P. Jones

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Tis better to have loved and lost,
than never to have loved at all.
                                       -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I always choose my friends for their good looks and my enemies for their good intellects.  Man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies.
                                       -- Oscar Wilde

Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

I looked out my window, and saw Kyle Pettys' car upside down, then I thought 'One of us is in real trouble'.
                                        -- Davey Allison, on a 150 m.p.h. crash
                (I am sorry, but i found it funny, and was sorely tempted to put it in)

When you speak to others for their own good it's advice;
When they speak to you for your own good it's interference.

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.

Xerox never comes up with anything original.

The most beautiful sunsets are made by cloudy skies.

Forgiveness is like the fragrance a flower gives after it's been stepped on.
                                       -- Chinese proverb

One man with a belief is more important than a thousand ones with an interest.
                                       -- Voltaire

Never put a mask on ur face. When people see the real one, they will have trouble recognizing you.
                                       -- Mark Twain

Live every day as your last day. One day, you will be right.
                                       -- Mark Twain

You cant talk with a bullet. If you try to do that, you are not just a fool, you are a dead fool.
                                        -- Mario Puzo, The Godfather

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
                                        -- Francis Bacon

This book is dedicated to my brilliant and beautiful wife without whom I would be nothing. She always comforts and consoles, never complains or interferes, asks nothing, and endures all. She also writes my dedications.
                                       -- Albert Malvino

Suicide is the most sincere form of self criticism.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
                                       -- Richard Bach

Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
                                       -- Wynn Catlin

He who knows not and knows that he knows not is ignorant.  Teach him.
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool.  Shun him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep.  Wake him.
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is simple.  Teach him.
He who knows and knows that he knows is wise.  Follow him.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it.
                                       -- Mother Teresa

Life is like dancing on top of a volcano. The feet will be always hot. The trick is to keep the head cool.
                                       -- Muhammad Ali

If there is a light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be music in his life.
                                       --  Mozart

My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'
                                       -- Chinese saying

The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse.

Any individual by himself is tolerably sensible and reasonable, but as part of a crowd, at once becomes a blockhead.
                                        -- Frederick von Schiller

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
                                        -- Mark Twain

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor.  He takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
                                         -- George Bernard Shaw

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
                                           -- Jerome K Jerome

I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours.
                                           -- Jerome K Jerome

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
                                           -- Wilson Mizner

When a banker jumps out of a window, jump after him--that's where the money is.
                                           -- Robespierre

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them.
                                           -- Henry David Thoreau

The day advanced as if to light some work of mine; it was morning, and lo! now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished.
                                           -- Henry David Thoreau

Talent does what it can.
Genius does what it must.
You do what you get paid to do.

I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
                                           -- Ashleigh Brilliant

Keep your mouth shut and people will think you stupid;
Open it and you remove all doubt.

Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called "Bureaucracy".
Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do anything loses.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
                                           -- Helen Keller

The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
                                           -- William Arthur Ward

Grant me the courage to change those things I can.
Grant me the patience to accept those things I can't change.
Grant me the wisdom to know the difference between the two.
                                           -- Winston Churchill

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd.
The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
                                           -- Alan Ashley-Pitt

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you;
but if you really make them think they'll hate you.

I didn't like the play, but I saw it under adverse conditions.
The curtain was up.

In war, armies must fight.
                                           -- Winston Churchill

There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards -- only physics and war hold him in check. And also the wife who wants him home by five, of course.
                                           -- Encyclopadia Apocryphia, 1990 ed.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
                                           -- Niels Bohr

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
                                           -- John Milton

Insult of the day : I love your outfit, does it come in your size?

The only heroic act a fireman performs is signing up. All others fall in the line of duty.
                                           -- A NYC fireman after the WTC attacks (I may be guilty of messing up the quote a bit, but the sense remains uplifting)

Society needs a balance between Athens and Sparta. If you're Athens, there's no security. If you're Sparta, you have security, but nobody wants to live there. You're talking about a balance between things that are inherently flawed.
                                           -- Daniel Seidemann

Who does not love wine, women, and song,
Remains a fool his whole life long.
                                           -- Johann Heinrich Voss

To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.

Flying is the second greatest feeling you can have. The greatest feeling?
Landing... Landing is the greatest feeling you can have.

It matters not whether you win or lose;
what matters is whether I win or lose.
                                           -- Darrin Weinberg

We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm.
                                           -- Winston Churchill

After 35 years, I have finished a comprehensive study of European comparative law. In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited, except that which is permitted. In France, under the law, everything is permitted, except that which is prohibited. In the Soviet Union, under the law, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted. And in Italy, under the law, everything is permitted, especially that which is prohibited.
                                           -- Newton Minow (Speech to the Association of American Law Schools)

My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
                                           -- Anna M. Uhlich

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
                                           -- George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
                                           -- Tao Teh King (A typo, i don't know frankly)

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
                                           -- Dereke Bruce

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
                                           -- Mother Teresa

A Doctor is the only guy who can bury his mistakes.
Others must learn to accept and live with them.

Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him. A new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
                                           -- The Holy Bible

Someday I will smile
And find the warmth of my smile
Reflected back to me
Someday I will reach out
And find that I only have to reach halfway
For someone will be reaching out to me
Someday I will find
The true meaning of the word Love
But for now I must try to know myself
And the world around me
So when the time comes for me to give
I will know the meaning of my gift.
                                           -- Steven Javan Jones

I am an idea
Conceived in the mind of the Universe
And interpreted in the minds
Of the individuals I meet.
Like a blank canvas
And every person that crosses our path
Takes up the brush
And makes their mark
Upon our surface.

But we must realize there comes a day
That we must take up the brush
And finish the work
For only we can determine
If we are to be
Just another Canvas
Or a Masterpiece.

                                           -- Steven Javan Jones

Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools.
                                           -- Henry David Thoreau

If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three persons, two of them absent.

A meeting is where minutes are kept and hours are lost.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
                                           -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.
                                           -- Jim Horning

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
                                           -- R.S. Surtees

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
                                           -- Anatole France

Sin boldly.
                                           -- Martin Luther

One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs -- but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.
                                           -- Professor Charles P. Issawi

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
                                           -- Blaise Pascal

Never argue with a woman when she's tired -- or rested.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
                                           -- Helen Keller

Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
                                           -- Lazarus Long

I am professionally trained in computer science, which is to say (in all seriousness) that I am extremely poorly educated.
                                           -- Joseph Weizenbaum, "Computer Power and Human Reason"

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
                                           -- Messiah's Handbook : Reminders for the Advanced Soul

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
                                           -- Gerald Brenan

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
                                           -- E.E. Cummings

You can't teach people to be lazy - either they have it, or they don't.
(Yeah! that's the kind of quote I'd look for)
                                           -- Dagwood Bumstead

(More of a literary excerpt than a quote, but rather poetic)
And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet been man enough to know its value.
                                           -- Charles Dickens

(Another long one) I began many years ago, as so many young men do, in searching for the perfect woman. I believed that if I looked long enough, and hard enough, I would find her and then I would be secure for life. Well, the years and romances came and went, and I eventually ended up settling for someone a lot less than my idea of perfection. But one day, after many years together, I lay there on our bed recovering from a slight illness. My wife was sitting on a chair next to the bed, humming softly and watching the late afternoon sun filtering through the trees. The only sounds to be heard elsewhere were the clock ticking, the kettle downstairs starting to boil, and an occasional schoolchild passing beneath our window. And as I looked up into my wife's now wrinkled face, but still warm and twinkling eyes, I realized something about perfection... It comes only with time.
                                           -- James L. Collymore, "Perfect Woman"

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
                                           -- George Bernard Shaw

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
                                           -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
                                           -- Emile Henry Gauvreay

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
                                           -- Johann Sebastian Bach

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