I like words. I like that you can put a string of words together and form thoughts, ideas, opinions, and points of view. Some of these strings can move something within you, some make you laugh, some get your feathers ruffled, and some simply make you say "hmmm." Words can evoke every nameable emotion known to man: rage, jealousy, fear, hate, love, complacency, happiness, and sorrow. They can inspire you, lift you up, pull you down or leave you where you are. This page is devoted to strings of words knows as quotes. Every yahoo profile has a place for your favorite one, but it is too hard for me to pick just one.

On a side note...none of these are original words from me...if i know who said it, they have the credit. If there is no name or title following, then it is unknown to me.

Enjoy!

One who makes no mistakes, never makes anything.
--English proverb

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
--Linus Pauling

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
--Chinese Proverb

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
--Stephen R. Covey

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
--Grace Murray Hopper

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
--Yogi Berra

If you've always done it that way, it's probably wrong.
--Charles Kettering

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
--Carl Buchner

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
--Confucius

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
--Mark Van Doren

To teach is to learn again.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
--Bill Cosby

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
--Albert Einstein

Inside of me a voice is repeating the phrase: you've lost it, you'll never get out of this maze.
--Phish

Someday you came, and I knew you were the one. You were the rain, you were the sun, but I needed both, cause I needed you. You were the one I was dreaming of all my life. When it is dark you are my light.
--Enigma

I'm scared of everything! I'm scared of what I did, of what I saw, of who I am. And mostly I'm scared of walking out of this room, and never feeling again in my whole life... the way I feel when I'm with you.
--Dirty Dancing

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire Cat. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't really matter."
--Alice in Wonderland

And I heard all I thought I could take, and I can't fight anymore, and now its too late and I can't pretend... why I liked you better before.
--Guster

I've learned that goodbyes always hurt, pictures never replace having been there, memories good or bad will always bring tears, and words can never replace feelings.

Look at me, you may think you see who I really am, but you'll never know me... Why is my reflection so alone (I dont know), must I pretend that I'm someone else for all time? When will my reflection show, who I am inside... Must there be a secret me, I'm forced to hide?
--Christina Aguilera "Reflection"

I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
--Alice in Wonderland

"I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir" said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see."
--Alice in Wonderland

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
--William Dement

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Dare to risk public criticism.

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

How about I allow the world to live as it chooses, and I allow me to live as I choose.

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the trouble makers. The round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change things, they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
-- Apple Computers, Think Different

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-- Walter Bagehot

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
-- Josh Billings

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
-- Jim Bishop

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
-- Blood of the Martyr

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
-- William J. H. Boetcker

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
-- Louis E. Boone

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
-- Win Borden

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.
-- Nathaniel Branden

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it.
-- Pearl S. Buck

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
-- Gelett Burgess

Patience will achieve more than force.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are--if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
-- Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend.
-- Albert Camus

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music.
-- George Carlin

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
-- Dale Carnegie

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
-- Hodding Carter Jr.

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
-- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

I would defend the liberty of consenting adults to practice whatever perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

Your mind is like a parachute. It only works if it is open.
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
-- Agnes de Mile, American dancer-choreographer (1905-1993)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
-- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right.
-- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe people are good at heart.
-- Anne Frank

He found lies detestable, perhaps because, preoccupying himself with mathematical science, he knew the beauty of truth.
-- Vincenzo Galilei, on his father Galileo

First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak.
-- Epictetus

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
-- Guy Finley

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
-- Robert Frost

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
-- Galileo Galilei

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-- Elbert Hubbard

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
-- Elbert Hubbard

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
--Winston Churchill

Some put in their two-cents and get change.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
--Horace Farfel

That inward eye / Which is the bliss of solitude.
--William Wordsworth

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. --
William James

First get your facts; then you may distort them at your leasure.
--Mark Twain

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
--Albert Einstein

Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions and great wizards of emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.
--Dave James

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

Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
--Gottfried Leibniz

Change is inevitable, improvement merely an option.
--Robert Panoff

A time is called dark, not because the light refuses to shine but because people refuse to see it.
--James Michener

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
--William James

Today's oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

If you don't have the time to do it right, where do you think you're going to find the time to do it over?

Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
--John Powell

Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.

X = Unknown in Algebra
SPIRT= Drip under pressure
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
--Elbert Hubbard

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
--John Cage

A man is already halfway in love with a woman who listens to him.
--Brendan Francis

That's my opinion. If you don't like it, I've got others.
--Groucho Marx

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
--Mark Twain

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
--Philip K. Dick

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Listen to the mustn'ts, child
Listen to the don'ts
Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts
Listen to the never haves,
then listen close to me...
Anything can happen, child
Anything can be.
-- Shel Silverstein

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
-- Hannah Whitall Smith

The best answers are those that destroy the question.
-- Susan Sontag

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
-- Kimberli Spiegel

A true sadist is one who is nice to the masochist

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
--Timothy Leary (1920 - )

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
--Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
--Ellen Parr

Lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.
--Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911) Austrian composer, conductor
Advice to his wife Anna; in "Words of Wisdom," by William and Leonard Safire, 1989.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
--Fran Lebowitz (1905 - 1982) US author
Metropolitan Life, 1978

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
--Bruce Barton (1886 - 1967) US author

I see you, now that you aren't here. Before you were and I saw nothing. I shut my eyes.
-- Randall Jarrell, A Summer Night 

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
--Albert Einstein

It's fascinating that most people have a problem comprehending the complexity of humanity while failing to realize that they themselves are just as multi-faceted.