These are some of my favorite quotes from life, books, poems, shows, and movies. Hopefully, there will be some to inspire you as well...



"Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they're supposed to run wild until they find someone--just as wild--to run with." --Carrie on "Sex & the City," "Ex and the City" episode (my favorite quote)

"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." --Sir Alfred Tennyson, I Envy Not In Any Moods...

"Men speak conveniently of love when it serves their purpose, and when it doesn't, 'tis a burden to them." --Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music." --Aldous Huxley
"Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent." --Huxley
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history." --Huxley
"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie." --Huxley
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." --Huxley
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." --Huxley
"The only completely consistent people are the dead." --Huxley


"Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life tryin' to get over." --Hope Floats
"Beginnings are scary, endings are sad, but it's the middle that counts." --Hope Floats

"Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind." --Rudyard Kipling

"To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it." --J. Jenkins

"Success, remember, is the reward of toil." --Sophocles

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, managable tasks and then getting started on the first one." --Mark Twain

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." --Albert Einstein
"I don't know with which weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will most certainly be faught with sticks and stones." --Einstein

"The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." --Marcie Proust, French writer

"When you hate, you only hurt yourself because most of the people you hate don't know it, and those who do, don't care." --Ghosts of Mississippi

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them" --William Shakespeare

"Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance." --David Pratt

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough, you are sure to wake somebody up." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets." --Titanic

"You don't have to marry for money--you hang around the rich, and you marry for love." --Barbara Walters, "The View" 11/12/99

"The mind is a terrible thing to make up." --Jay Leno, referring to Mario Cuomo's indecision to run for president

"A wise man learns from his experience. A wiser man learns from the experience of others." --Confucius

"I never said it was right to love her; I just loved her." --The Horse Whisperer

"Tell me, and I forget; teach me, and I may remember; involve me, and I learn." --Benjamin Franklin

"Don't hate the player--hate the game." --David from Real World New Orleans

"Get out of my way, or you're gonna get played." --bumpersticker
"Keep honking. I'm reloading." --bumpersticker

"When the student is ready to learn, the teacher will appear." --Buddhist saying

"When you're ready to learn something, you begin to seek out solutions, ask inquisitive questions, and notice answers that might have been under your nose all along." --Martha Beck, writer (cited from Cosmopolitan)
"Never get married out of politeness." --Beck

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." --Henry David Thoreau

"You give up your dreams the longer you live, until you've got nothing." --pg 96 of Merrick by Anne Rice





"A flattering speech is like a honeyed poison. It tends to disarm the person to whom it is addressed." --Latin Proverb

"Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers." --anonymous
"There is no evidence the tongue is connected to the brain." --anonymous
"Where you stand on an issue often depends on where you sit." --anonymous
"Thunder is good. Thunder is impressive. But it is lightning that does the work." --letter, 1908
"A restless heart still rules us from beyond the grave." --(I'm not sure who said this. If you know where this saying came from, please let me know.)





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