More of my favorite quotes: Part 1#

As I continue to collect quotes, my top 10 are constantly changing. So I'm changing this thread to be my favorite quotes. Now for your reading pleasure:

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
- EE cummings

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
- Bill Vaughan

"A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina

"If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?"
 - Tyler Derden

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
 - Elizabeth Barret Browning

Friday, October 06, 2006 10:24:21 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) #    Comments [0]  |  Trackback

 

My Top 10 Quotes: Part 2#

Here is the second installment of some of my favorite quotes. These are quotes that express how I feel about things in life. Some of them evoke feelings of sympathy or pride or my personal favorite humor.

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
  - Plato

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
 - Maya Angelou

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."
  - George Jackson

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
  - Sidney J. Harris

"The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person."
 - Unknown

Friday, August 04, 2006 2:06:08 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) #    Comments [0]  |  Trackback

 

My Top 10 Quotes: Part 1#

I have a collection of quotes that I started last year. Over that time it's grown to be quite large. For your reading pleasure, here are a few of my favorites.

"To try when it seems there is no hope is to risk failure, but not to try is to guarantee it"
 - Anonymous

"The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides."
  - Henri-Frederic Amiel

"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."
  - Bill Cosby

"The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling."
  - Paula Poundstone

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
  - HP Lovecraft

Friday, July 28, 2006 2:51:22 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) #    Comments [0]  |  Trackback

 

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