Famous (and not so famous) quotes

[Pollypocket]

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Charlie Chaplin

[waiting for lilacs]

             Laughter is an instant vacation.
                                                 --Milton Berle

[Tryon]

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

Marguerite de Valois

[Pollypocket]

The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

Mohandas Gandhi

[waiting for lilacs]

    It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak and another to hear.
           
            Thoreau

[Pollypocket]

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Desiderius Erasmus

[Jack McClennan]

You're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
Dennis Miller

[Pollypocket]

You're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
Dennis Miller

*envisions it and cracks up*...keep those funny ones coming, Jack!! 

[waiting for lilacs]

   We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved...

       Anonymous

[Pollypocket]

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Aesop

[waiting for lilacs]

    I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

           A.E. Hotchner

[Pollypocket]

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

[waiting for lilacs]

    Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.


                                 Mark Twain

[Pollypocket]

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Alexander Chase

[waiting for lilacs]

     I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
--Albert Einstein