" Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. "

Charles M. Schulz, as “Charlie Brown”, Peanuts, cartoon strip US cartoonist (1922 – 2000)

" What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. "

Crowfoot

" I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion. "

Dorothy Parker US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 – 1967)

" The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves. "

La Rochefoucauld

" If you fear change, leave it here. "

Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip jar Quotations by unknown authors

" If you believe everything you read, better not read. "

Japanese proverb

" Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought– particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. "

Woody Allen US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 – )

" Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. "

Plutarch Greek biographer & moralist (46 AD – 120 AD)

" No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. "

Henry P. Fairchild

" It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record. "

John Blasik

" In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you. "

Jason Mraz

" What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. "

Nora Ephron

" Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. "

Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

" First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. "

Epictetus Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD – 135 AD)

" Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit. "

Diane Westlake

" What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little "

Stanislaus

" A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities. "

Jules Ormont

" Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work. "

David B. Haight

" Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. "

Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 – 1826)

" Never give up and never face the facts. "

Ruth Gordon

" War is hell, and I mean to make it so. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

" Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. "

George Sheehan

" By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. "

G. K. Chesterton English author & mystery novelist (1874 – 1936)

" Each day provides its own gifts. "

American Proverb

" Whenever I get married I start buying
Gourmet Magazine
. "

Nora Ephron

" There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower US general & Republican politician (1890 – 1969)

" Nothing is easy to the unwilling. "

Nikki Giovanni

" A good listener is usually thinking about something else. "

Kin Hubbard (1868 – 1930)

" Practice yourself what you preach. "

Titus Maccius Plautus, Asinaria Roman comic dramatist (254 BC – 184 BC)

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