Quotes:
"Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment."
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love...William Wordsworth
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem...W. Somerset Maugham
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face...National Lampoon,
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life...Rita Rudner
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants...A. Whitney Brown
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it...Lyndon B. Johnson
If a man will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties...Sir Francis Bacon
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh...W. H. Auden
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke...Lynda Barry
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired...Robert Frost
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less...Rabbi Julius Gordon
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence...H. L. Mencken
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real...Iris Murdoch
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic...Joseph Stalin
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you...Don Marquis
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness...Bertrand Russell
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children; children love hamsters...Alice Thomas Ellis
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her...Oscar Wilde
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor...Robertson Davies
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time...Honore de Balzac
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic...Anais Nin
Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor -
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven...Karen Sunde
Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau -
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.- George Sand -
Give all to love; obey thy heart...Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit...Peter Ustinov
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love...Sophocles
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others...Anne-Sophie Swetchine
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully...W. Somerset Maugham
Love is a never ending feeling. - Adeil Prince -
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece...John Ruskin
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.- John Lyly -
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun? ...Katharine Graham
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.- Lisa Hoffman -
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved...Victor Hugo
There is no remedy for love but to love more...Henry David Thoreau
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves...William Hazlitt
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides - David Viscott -
Life isn't long enough for love and art...W. Somerset Maugham
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals - Benjamin Franklin
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked...Erich Segal
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die...Amelia Burr
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not...Andre Gide
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest...Pearl Bailey
Came but for friendship, and took away love. - Thomas Moore -
Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them...Robert C. Pollock
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. - Elizabeth Bowen -
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive...John Sheffield
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love...Socrates
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love...Spanish Proverb
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command...Alan Watts
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.- Amy Bloom -
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue...John Dryden
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is...Hadewijch of Antwerp
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely...William Penn
We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together. - Brian Andres -
Your words are my food; your breath is my wine. You are everything to me. - Sarah Bernhardt -
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down. Love is watchful and sleeping, slumbered not. Though weary, it is not tired; though pressed, it is not straitened; though alarmed, it is not confounded... - Thomas A. Kempis -
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding...Bette Davis
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair...C. S. Lewis
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that...Norman Mailer
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough...Dinah Shore
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life...Alexander A. Bogomoletz
As we grow older together, as we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change... I will always keep falling in love with you. - Karen Clodfelder -
Love is like the sun coming out of the clouds and warming your soul. - Unknown
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost - Thomas J. Watson
TRIVIAL FACTS:
1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
5. The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
6. There are more chickens than people in the world.
7. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
8. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
9. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
10. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
11. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
12. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
13. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the bill.
14. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
15. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
16. Maine is the only state (in USA) whose name is just one syllable.
17. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
18. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
20. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
21. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
22. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
23. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
24. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
25. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
27. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
28. it’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
29. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
30. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
31. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
32. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
33. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
34. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
35. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.