Famous (and not so famous) quotes

[Pollypocket]

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Charles Kettering

[quiet musings]

"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps."

 Eleanor Roosevelt, 1945

[Space Cadette]

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
 
Agatha Christie

[Pollypocket]

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Joseph Addison

[Space Cadette]

If your kids are giving you a headache, follow the directions on the aspirin bottle, especially the part that says "keep away from children." 

Susan Savannah

[Spacey/f]

Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. 

Brian Littrell

[Pollypocket]

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

Mark Twain

[Pollypocket]

nice one DG..*S*

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

[TemptationEyes]

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Pollypocket]

As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain,
So the thought of you, remaining deeply folded in my brain,
Will not leave me. Alll things leave me: You remain.

Arthur Symons

[waiting for lilacs]

   

                  What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient...

[Texas Sunshine]

* For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and
wrong. (H L Mencken)


* Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there. (Will Rogers)

[TemptationEyes]

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.  ~Norm Papernick

[Serenitee]

The problem is not that there are problems.  The problem is expecting 
otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

        -- Theodore Rubin

[waiting for lilacs]

      The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.
 
              Sean Stewart