Archives - April 2000 Quotes

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar
into four pieces with your bare hands-
and then eat just one of the pieces.
?Judith Viorst ( strength )

I mean Peter Rabbit is lethal-- look what almost happens to him.
He gets away not because he's smart, but just by dumb luck.
And the book makes it clear that it's just dumb luck that has
saved him from being eaten. But your mother is still there to forgive you.
?Maurice Sendak ( authors )

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel
when you see something that looks good
and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble.
?Stanley Kubrick ( authors )

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment,
repeated every day.
Jim Rohn ( authors )

I spend most of my time trying to be this exceptional person that'll
fulfill every person's wants. In my friendships, in my relationships, too.
But you know what? You can't please everybody.
It's really important to keep things simple and small and real.
?Sandra Bullock ( authors )

If you don't want to do something,
one excuse is as good as another.
?Yiddish Proverb ( excuses )

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain;
to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
?Nan Fairbrother ( affection )

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold
a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
?Aldous Huxley ( authors )

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall
out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you,
it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.
?Judith Viorst ( authors )

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be
married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
?Joanne Woodward ( authors )

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great
catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
?Ernest Dimnet ( happiness )

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday
in your life you will have been all of these.
?George Washington Carver ( authors )

The minute you settle for less than you deserve,
you get even less than you settled for.
?Maureen Dowd ( acceptance )

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my
opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness.
To save oneself trouble.
?Agatha Christie ( authors )