My Favorite Quotable Quotes

1. “Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit." [None dances sober, unless he is completely insane.] - Marcus Tullius Cicero (Pro Murena 13)

2. “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘nice doggy’ until you can find a rock." - Will Rogers

3. "Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends". -Woody Allen

4. "Sure you can have that 3^rd eye, but it’s going to cost you!" - a former supervisor, whom shall remain nameless, mainly because she made my life a living hell the entire 3 plus years I worked under her, and thus doesn’t deserve any recognition (well, not from me, anyway).

5. "Confucius say 'Man cannot live by bread alone - he need peanut butter!'"

and

6. "Confucius say 'Man who go to bed with itchy butt, wake up with smelly fingers!'" - my cousin Dino, age 8 at the time, who was totally misquoting Confucius

by Ashleigh Brilliant:

7. “By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.”

8. “If you don't do it, you'll never know what would have happened if you had done it.”

9. ”Appreciate me now, and avoid the rush”

10. ”If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly”.

11. ”The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other” .

12. ”Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest”.

13. “I consider reality an intrusion on my dreams”.

14. “When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."
- Sacha Guitry

15. "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons". -Woody Allen

16. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
- Voltaire (attrib.)

17. "Life may not be the party we hoped for...but while we are here we might as well dance!" ~ Unknown

18. “Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." - Henry van Dyke

19. "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."- Wayne Dyer

20. "Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln

21. ”What does not destroy me, makes me strong." - Friedrich Nietzsche

 by Kahlil Gibran:

22. "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were".

23. "Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy".

24. "Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream".

25. "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you".

26. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

27. “If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life." - Kwan-Tzu

28. “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." - George Bernhard Shaw (Man and Superman, 1903)

29. ”A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner." - English proverb

30. ”Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."
- George Bernhard Shaw

31. "Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

32. “Hell is other people”.- Jean-Paul Sartre

33.   "The things you own end up owning you.  It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything".  ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk

34. "There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out".

and

35. "Oh, Miss West, I've heard so much about you".
"Yeah, honey, but you can't prove a thing".- Mae West

36. “A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."
- Lana Turner

37. "The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it". - Roseanne Barr

38. "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got".- Janis Joplin, American singer

39. "Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination". - Mae Jemison, astronaut

40. "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are".

41. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage".

42. "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age".-

43. "Good things happen to those who hustle".

more by Anais Nin:

44. "My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

45. "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say".

46. "There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom".

47. "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it".

48. "Why do writers write? Because it isn't there". - Thomas Berger

49. "If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor". - Edgar Rice Burroughs

50. "It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly". - C. J. Cherryh

51. "Writing is turning one's worst moments into money". - J. P. Donleavy

52. "There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot". - L. Sprague de Camp

53. "Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good". - William Faulkner

54. "Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead". - Gene Fowler

55. "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either". - Robert Graves