Sunday, July 27, 2008

Random quotes

Random quotes recently added to my collection....

*To escape criticism-- do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. -Elbert Hubbard

*This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. -Dorothy Parker

*Insanity doesn't run in my family. It gallops. -Cary Grant

*The length of this document defends it well against its chance of being read. -Winston Churchill

*If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -Mother Teresa

*Charity sees the need not the cause. -German proverb

*Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow. -Jeff Valdez

*Make yourself necessary to somebody. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

*Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. -Henrik Tikkanen

*I don't really trust a sane person. -Lyle Alzado

*Reality continues to ruin my life. -Bill Watterson

*People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. -Bill Waterson

*Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. -Margaret Millar (This is extremely true!)

*The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. -Laurence J. Peter

*Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. -C.S. Lewis

*If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. -C.S. Lewis

*We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can't imagine. -John Foster Hall

*As scarce as the truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. -Josh Billings

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