Where there is great love, there are always
miracles.
--Willa Cather
(1876-1947)
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at
the door where the latter enters, the former makes
its exit.
--Alexandre Dumas
(1802-1870)
Love is not something you feel. It's something you
do.
--David Wilkerson
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
--John Powell
All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180)
Roman Emperor
You go to school, you get a master's degree, you
study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for
plastic glasses.
--Sally Jessy Raphael
I love being famous. It validates that I have
something to say.
--Rich Lewis
A horse may be coaxed to drink, but a pencil must
be lead.
--Stan Laurel
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I
think of it as the only time of the month that I
can be myself.
--Roseanne
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in
the United States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the 9 millimeter bullet.
--Dave Barry
One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool
--Edgar Watson Howe
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
--Unknown
Never judge a book by its movie.
--J. W. Eagan
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know
what you're going to get.
--Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)
Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are
starving to death.
--Auntie Mame, by Patrick Dennis
Thank you for your coffee, seignor. I shall miss
that when we leave Casablanca.
--Ingrid Bergman
I live my life a quarter mile at a time.For those
ten seconds or least I'm free nothing else matter
--Vin Diesel (The Fast & The Furious)
Life is not a static thing. The only people who
do not change their minds are incompetents in
asylums, and those in cemeteries.
--Everett McKinley Dirksen
Parents learn a lot from their children about
coping with life.
--Muriel Spark
Every life has a story.
--A&E Biography
If you don't know [your family's] history, then
you don't know anything. You are a leaf that
doesn't know it is part of a tree.
--Michael Crichton
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I
am with you kid Let's go!'
--Maya Angelou
You can make more friends in two months by
becoming interested in other people than you can
in two years by trying to get other people
interested in you.
--Dale Carnegie
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends
of them?
--Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)
I get by with a little help from my friends.
--John Lennon
Friends are God's way of taking care of us. If
you should die before me, ask if you could bring a
friend.
--Stone Temple Pilots
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes
you to say disagreeable things to your intimates.
The nearer you come into relation with a person,
the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
The friendship between me and you I will not
compare to a chain; for that rains might rust, or
the falling tree might break.
--William Penn
Treaty with the Indians
That friendship will not continue to the end which
is begun for an end.
--Francis Quareles
I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any
single one of my friends because no one is
complete enough in himself.
--Anais Nin
The state of your life is nothing more than a
reflection of your state of mind.
--Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a
heaven for?
--Robert Browning
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
--Sir Winston Churchill
I no longer have the fear of being alone. It's
cool to find out that you don't need a boyfriend
to be happy.
--Drew Barrymore
A smile is the lighting system of the face, the
cooling system of the head and the heating system
of the heart.
--Unknown
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
--William McFee
I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of
people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the
crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold
enough. Let's go west.'
--Richard Jeni
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's
failures, but of the success that may come
tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task,
but you will succeed if you persevere; and you
will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
--Helen Keller
There is a difference between imitating a good man
and counterfeiting him.
--Benjamin Franklin
Good fortune and misfortune take effect through
perseverance. The way of heaven and earth becomes
visible through perseverance. The way of sun and
moon become bright through perseverance. All
movements under heaven become uniform through
perseverance.
--I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
A good education is not so much one which prepares
a man to succeed in the world, as one which
enables him to sustain a failure.
--Bernard Iddings Bell
Chaplain, University of Chicago
Good friends are good for your health.
--Irwin Sarason