November 2003 Quotes

I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain
cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient
in living. It's a way of looking at life through
the wrong end of a telescope... and that
enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
Dr Seuss

A slander is like a hornet;
if you can't kill it dead
the first time,
better not strike at it.
Henry Wheeler Shaw (Josh Billings)

It is the nature of the strong
heart, that like the palm tree
it strives ever upwards
when it is most burdened.
Philip Sidney

The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou
art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates

Education is what survives when what has
been learned has been forgotten
B F Skinner

In a closed society where everybody's guilty,
the only crime is getting caught. In a world
of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S Thompson

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't
have to say this, but I really like human
beings who have suffered. They're kinder.
Emma Thompson

Look at a day when you are supremely
satisfied at the end. It's not a day when
you lounge around doing nothing; it's
when you've had everything
to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher

It is best to love wisely, no doubt:
but to love foolishly is better than
not to be able to love at all.
William Thackery

I am a part of all that I have met.
Lord Alfred Tennyson

Faithless is he that says farewell
when the road darkens.
JRR Tolkien

It is amazing what you can accomplish
if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman

The right word may be effective, but no word was
ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain

It's funny how your initial approach to a person can
determine your feelings toward them,
no matter what facts develop later on.
Dorothy Uhnak

The human heart feels things the eyes
cannot see and knows what
the mind cannot understand.
Robert Valett

The best index to a person's character is
(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and
(b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren

Good manners have much to do
with emotions. To make them
ring true, one must feel them,
not merely exhibit them.
Amy Vanderbilt

It would be nice if the poor were
to get even half of the money
that is spent in studying them.
Bill Vaughan

The fame you earn has a different taste
from the fame that is forced upon you.
Gloria Vanderbilt

Those who dance are called insane
by those who don't hear the music.
Eddie Vedder

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

The worst thing that one can do is not
try, to be aware of what one wants and
not give in to it, to spend years in silent
hurt wondering if something could have
materialized -- and never knowing.
David Viscott

Life is thickly sown with thorns,
and I know no other remedy than
to pass quickly through them. The longer
we dwell on our misfortunes, the
greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire