My Favorite Quotes
Life:
"Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. "
Adam Lindsay Gordon
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. "
John Lennon
"If you can go through life with out experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet"
Neil Simon, The Play Goes On (Simon & Schuster)
Love:
The Beatles said, "All you need is love." And then they broke up.
Larry Norman
"Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight? "
Christopher Marlowe
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. "
William Shakespeare
Work:
"The early bird who catches the worm works for someone who comes in late and owns the worm farm."
John D. MacDonald
"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. "
Robert Frost
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world"
John le Carre"
Dreams:
"Without darkness there are no dreams"
Karla Kuban, Marchlands (Scribner)
"The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. "
William Shakespeare
Children:
"It is better to give shildren a rule to break than to give them no rules at all"
Tipper Gore in Time
"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing"
Phyllis Diller
"There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone or forbid your children to do it"
Monta Crane
"The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other"
Jan Blaustone, The Joy of Parenthood (Meadowbrook)
Misc.:
"In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage."
Joseph Addison
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. "
William Shakespeare
"When I was a little boy they called me a liar but now that I am a grown up they call me a writer. "
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "
Confucius
"Why not go out on a limd? Isn't that where the fruit is?"
Frank Scully
"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his"
Hellen Keller
"Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it take a carpenter to build it."
Sam Rayburn