"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."
- Robert Heinlein
"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
- Iris Murdoch
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy."
- Groucho Marx
"Humility is no substitute for a good personality."
- Fran Lebowitz
"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
"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."
- Henry Ward Beecher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow."
-Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
- Mark Twain
"If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known."
- George C. Marshall
"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
- Cyril Connolly
"The chief business of the American people is business."
- Calvin Coolidge
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
- Bertrand Russell
"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs."
- Lily Tomlin
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves
"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."
- Michael Leunig
"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least."
- John Harrigan
"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."
- François de La Rouchefoucauld
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
- Harper Lee
"Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained."
- John Powell
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
- Clive James
"We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing."
- Seneca
"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
- Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences."
- Eugene Kennedy
"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."
- Fr. Jerome Cummings
"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."
- P. J. O'Rourke
"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it."
- Max Frisch
"Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?"
- Socrates, dying words
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
- Howard Aiken
"Success is just a matter of attitude."
- Darcy E. Gibbons
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen."
- Albert Einstein
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
- Tom Stoppard
"Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals."
- Cynthia Heimel
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
- Mother Teresa
"Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies. Tell her: "Kath, you just go right ahead and do what you feel is right." Unless you actually care for her, in which case you must see to it that she has no male contact whatsoever."
- Bruce Jay Friedman
"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."
- Dale Carnegie
"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."
- Pearl S. Buck
"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights."
- Oscar Levant
"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character."
- Margaret Chase Smith
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
- James A. Froude
"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature."
- Anne Frank
"I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen."
- Abd Er-Rahman III of Spain
"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." - Chinese Proverb
"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."
- Mother Teresa
"We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us."
- Margaret Guenther
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."
- George MacDonald
Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
- Erich Fromm
"I love humanity but I hate people."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Tell me who admires and loves you,
And I will tell you who you are.
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
"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 from Calvin and Hobbes comic strip
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
- H. L. Mencken
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
- Katharine Hepburn
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."
- Gore Vidal
"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."
- Collete
"Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?" - Oscar Hammerstein, II
"The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference."
- Audre Lorde
"The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success."
- Anna Garlin Spencer
"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."
- Pearl S. Buck
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
- Abraham Lincoln
"No one worth possessing can be quite possessed."
- Sara Teasdale
That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love.
- Emily

inson
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely."
- Lorraine Hansberry
"Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity."
- Henri Nouwen
I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am
When I am with you
- Roy Croft
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
- G.H. Hardy
"Living with integrity means:
Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships.
Asking for what you want and need from others.
Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension.
Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe."
- Barbara de Angelis
"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
- William James
"The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where."
- Dorothy Thompson
"The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life."
- William Wordsworth
"Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim."
- Unknown
"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle."
- Amy Bloom
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Tennyson
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."
- John Wesley
"There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil."
- Benjamin Haydon
"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."
- Epicurus
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
"I think it would be a good idea."
- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss, while working, when informed that his wife is dying
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
- Woody Allen
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
- Epictetus
"What about things like bullets?"
- Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
- Voltaire
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."
- Flannery O'Connor
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
- Henry Kissinger
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
- Paul Dirac
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."
- Henry Kissinger
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
- Carl Sagan
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
- Elbert Hubbard
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
"This book fills a much-needed gap."
- Moses Hadas in a review
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir to a visiting diplomat
took them all from a friends site

crap alot more than i realized