"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."1
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)2
"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."3
- unknown4
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."5
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1906
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."7
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)8
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."9
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)10
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."11
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)12
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."13
- Voltaire (1694-1778)14
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."15
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)16
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."17
- John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)18
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."19
- Jimmy Durante20
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."21
- Will Durant22
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."23
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)24
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."25
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)26
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."27
- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)28
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."29
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)30
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."31
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)32
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."33
- General George Patton (1885-1945)34
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."35
- Voltaire (1694-1778)36
"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting."37
- Gloria Leonard38
"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."39
- Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)40
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."41
- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)42
"The average person thinks he isn't."43
- Father Larry Lorenzoni44
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."45
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)46
Hope you are as inspired and amused by those as i was.47
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i love quotes! i used to collect them in a notebook but my "friend" told me i was wierd so i stopped. well i'm smarter now and i think i'm going to start my collection again. i loved the one about california.
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Nancy Astor: " If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee".
Winston Churchill: "If I were your husband I'd drink it"!
"Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes that way, if you criticise them you are a mile away and have their shoes!" Billy Connolly (I think)
"Better to remain a silent fool than speak up and remove all doubt"
"Aim for the moon, if you miss you will still be among the stars."
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Only boring people are brilliant at breakfast
I think that's another Wilde one
No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Razors pain you
rivers are damp
acids stain you
drugs cause cramp
guns aren't lawful
nooses give
gas smells awful
you might as well live"
Dorothy Parker- for the suicidal amongst us
And finally...
"More and more of our exports are coming from overseas"
Bush- just to remind us that we are living in a world in which the leader of the most powerful nation doesn't know what imports are, finds foreign policy frustrating and thinks Africa is a nation. For more, see the poster on the back of my door... -
HOME NOW! YAY! I have a whole book of great quotes somewhere in my room. I'll have to bring it to yours... actually, later today that would be, since it's 25 to 3 in the morning
I didn't realise that comment had actually sent, I got dislodged / evicted from the room by a bunch of small german kids before the page had loaded. Good job it did. SEE YOU!
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lol, thanks Amy...i like the Churchill one, sounds like something i'd say
Hurry up and come home 
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"In the morning, I'll be sober but you'll still be ugly"
(Churchill)
"Flee! All is discovered!"
(Mark Twain sent this as a telegram to all his friends and they all fled, the point being that none of us are totally innocent)
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hey loving these, made me think a little but hey you're worth it love ya! these were fab and made me laugh as well....more more more! hehehehe l8az love ya sky xxxx
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Thanks my little dazzling friend
Yeah, i just thought some of them were very meaningful so decided i would share with the world Hope you ok sweetheart
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hey hun i really liked some of these they really made me laugh lots of love sparks xxx
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