Welcome to the First Archives for the million and a half quotes I have. :-) I will have to create a second one pretty soon. Do enjoy.
2k-02-14 ~ Your Inspirational Quotations.
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ~ Harold Whitman
"The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours." ~ Ayn Rand
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." ~ Cherokee saying
"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside can't hurt you." ~ African proverb
"It's no good running a pig farm for 30 years while saying 'I was meant to be a dancer.' By that time, pigs are your style." ~ Quentin Crisp
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of those of old - seek what they sought." ~ Matsuo Basho
"Growing old is a privilege denied to many." ~ Unknown
"One clock stopped and knew the meaning of time." ~ Unknown
"If I had my life to live over I'd dare to make more mistakes next time." ~ Nadine Stair
"Where love is, no disguise can hide it for long; where it is not, none can simulate it." ~ Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld
"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." ~ George Baker
"As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think." ~ Native American Initiation Rite
"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness." ~ Margaret Atwood
"A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time." When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, 'The one I feed the most'." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"Careful. We don't want to learn from this." ~ Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes)
"If you weep because the sun has set, your own tears will never let you see the stars." ~ Hindu Proverb
"Instead of having the rug pulled from under your feet, learn to dance on a shifting carpet." ~ Thomas F Crum
"Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." ~ Frank Herbert
"Never look down on a person unless you are picking them up." ~ Unknown
"Be kind to your friends, without them you'd be a stranger." ~ Al Shock
"We all may have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now." ~ Martin Luther King. Jr.
"The old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind." ~ Martin Luther King. Jr.
"Listen, for words can not describe the sound of silence." ~ Unknown
"Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead." ~ Anna Cummins
"The soul would have no rainbow, had the eye no tears." ~ Unknown
"The pain of parting cannot be compared with the joy of meeting again else who could bear it." ~ Willy Smith
"All children behave as well as they are treated." ~ Jan Hunt
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." ~ Buddha
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that the mighty oak grows strong in contrary winds, and diamonds are made from extreme pressure." ~ Peter Marshall
"A 'NO' uttered from the deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'YES' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." ~ Gandhi
"Be sure your feet are planted in the right place before you decide to stand firm." ~ Unknown
"The road to success is full of parking places." ~ Unknown
"What day is it? - 'It's today' - squeaked Piglet. 'My favourite day' - said Pooh." ~ A.A. Milne
"A thousand mile journey begins with one step." ~ Zen saying
"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"Nothing would be done at all if we waited until we could do it so well that no one could fault with it." ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
99-11-21 ~ More quotes from Dean Koontz's novels.
"I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness." ~ Andrei Sakharov
"Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action." ~ Will and Ariel Durant
"Montgomery told me that the Law...became oddly weakened about nightfall; that then the animal was at its strongest; a spirit of adventure sprang up in them at the dusk; they would dare things they never seemed to dream about by day." ~ H. G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
"From childhood's hour
I have not been
As others were-
I have not seen
As others saw." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
"O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" ~ William Shakespeare
"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn." ~ H. G. Wells
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." ~ C. G. Jung
"Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves." ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Greater love hath no man than this: that he lay down his life for his friends." ~ The Gospel According to Saint John
"Life is an unrelenting comedy. Therein lies the tragedy of it." ~ One Dead Bishop, Martin Stillwater
"We sense that life is a dark comedy and maybe we can live with that. However, because the whole thing is written for the entertainment of the gods, too many of the jokes go right over our heads." ~ Two Vanished Victims, Martin Stillwater
"Laugh at tyrants and the tragedy they inflict. Such men welcome our tears as evidence subservience, but our laughter condemns them to ignominy." ~ Laura Shane
"The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty." ~ Charles Dickens
"Goodness speaks in a whisper.
Evil shouts." ~ A Tibetan proverb
"Goodness shouts.
Evil whispers." ~ A Balinese proverb
99-09-08 ~ Other than the one from Shai, and the one after it, these are all from John.
"The sky is not even a limit." ~ Shai
"There are three sides to every story. Your version, their version, and the truth." ~ Unknown
"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am." ~ Samuel Johnson
"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." ~ Sir Winston Churchill
"God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project." ~ Anonymous Graffiti
"I've heard snappier comebacks from a bowl of Rice Krispies." ~ Charles Emerson Winchester III
"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say `elevator', we say `lift'...they say `President', we say `stupid psychopathic git'...." ~ Alexi Sayle
"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him." ~ John Barrymore's dying words
"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." ~ Farmers' Almanac, 1978
"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." ~ John M. Ford
"The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity." ~ Harlan Ellison
"Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies." ~ Adrienne E. Gusoff
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." ~ Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
99-07-18 ~ A few that I've picked up since last time.
This quote is dedicated to my beloved David-darling. :-)
"No Good without Evil.
No Love without Hate.
No Innocence without Lust.
I am Darkness." ~ Darkness, Legend
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." ~ Satchmo Paige
"The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers." ~ Unknown
"Doctors are funny people: they order you to stop working and rest, and then they give you a bill that will keep you working overtime for the next six months." ~ Unknown
"An empty is not really empty. It is stuffed with trash. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head." ~ Unknown
"Remember that as a teenager, you are in the last stage of your life where you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you." ~ Unknown
"You have not lived a perfect day, though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to reoay you." ~ Unknown
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"A credit bureau is an organization that turns down as a "bad risk" a fellow who has paid cash for everything and has never owed a penny in his life." ~ Unknown
"The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning." ~ Unknown
"Character is like white paper; if once blotted, it can hardly ever be made to appear as white as before." ~ Unknown
"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are." ~ Unknown
"The pleasure of an afternoon nap is double that of sleep at night." ~ Unknown
"Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even." ~ Unknown
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." ~ Unknown
"Know yourself. Do not accept your pet dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." ~ Unknown
"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself." ~ Sir Thomas Browne
"This is neither here nor there-nor elsewhere." ~ Damon Runyon
"The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice." ~ Unknown
"Worry is like a rocking chair; it gets you nowhere." ~ Unknown
"Many of us spend half the time asking where the other half went." ~ Unknown
"Life holds no greater delight for a father than overhearing his son say, My dad can." ~ Unknown
99-06-28 ~ From nowhere in particular.
"If you wonder what the world is coming to, remember, so did your grandfather." ~ Unknown
"We are honored for what we give, not what we take." ~ Unknown
"He who ceases to be a friend never was a good one." ~ Unknown
"Some geniuses seem to lack common sense." ~ Unknown
"Life is one long process of getting tired." ~ Unknown
99-06-10 ~ These are from a variety of places...
"Home is where your rump rests." ~ Pumbaa
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who survive; the 'learned' find themselves fully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." ~ Eric Hoffer
And these are from Tiger13/Gandalf.
"A terrible darkness has fallen upon us,
But we must not surrender to it.
We shall lift lamps of courage
And find our way through to morning." ~ Anonymous member of the French resistance (1948)
"The blood of Ages flows so sweet. Come drink from us..." ~ Blood Fountain (The Legacy of Kain)
"HEHE CALL YOUR DOGS, THEY CAN FEED ON YOUR CORPSES!!!!" ~ Vorador (The Legacy of Kain)
"Not all who wander are lost." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
And lastly, these are other quotes found in Dean R. Koontz's novels.
"From childhood's hour
I have not been
As others were-
I have not seen
As others saw." ~ Alone, Edgar Allan Poe
"A dirge for her, the doubly dead, in that she died so young." ~ Lenore, Edgar Allan Poe
"And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot." ~ The Conqueror Worm Edgar Allan Poe
"Extreme terror gives us back the gestures of our childhood." ~ Chazal
"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes." ~ Macbeth Shakespeare
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; while loving someone deeply gives you courage." ~ Lao-Tzu
"O, what may within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" ~ William Shakespeare
"The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying." ~ Sir Thomas Brown
99-05-05 ~ These are from Shaithis.
"Every man and woman is a star." ~ Aliester Crowley
"One must have chaos in their heart to give birth to a dancing star." ~ Friedrich Nietzche
99-03-01
"Lots of people are doing the hardest work of their whole day before breakfast-getting up." ~ Unknown
"The beautiful bouquet you hand yourself usually looks like weeds to the other fellow." ~ Unknown
"If you kicked the person most responsible for your troubles, you probably wouldn't sit down for a week." ~ Unknown
"Maybe we should all remember a great oak tree was nothing but a little nut that held it's ground." ~ Unknown
"One thing an alarm clock can seldom arouse in us might be our better nature." ~ Unknown
"What is obscure, we usually see eventually; the obvious, it seems, can sometimes take longer." ~ Unknown
"The best way for you to win an argument is to begin by being right." ~ Unknown
"Tact is the ability to close your mouth before someone else wants to close it for you." ~ Unknown
"Soft-spoken, lucid facts speak louder than screaming arguments." ~ Unknown
99-02-19
"A dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul." ~ Carl Jung
"Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"Vegetarian is the Indian word for bad hunter." ~ Unknown
"One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find." ~ Confucius
"He who sets himself up as judge in the fields of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." ~ Albert Einstein
"Hakuna Matata!" ~ Timon and Pumbaa
"I didn't mean to do it on purpose!" ~ Me! I said this to my friend just the other day. I think its 'cause I hadn't had enough coffee. ;-)
99-02-12 ~ These are from my yearbooks.
"I know I'm God because when I pray I end up talking to myself." ~ Unknown
"Don't eat yellow snow." ~ Unknown
"Well now we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you." ~ Unknown
"A friend is one who knows all about you and loves you just the same." ~ Unknown
"Everyone is entitled to be stupid but some abuse the privilege." ~ Unknown
"Nothing is always wrong. Even a clock that has stopped ticking is right twice a day." ~ Unknown
"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get." ~ Unknown
"Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend." ~ Confucius
"A cynic is a person who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." ~ Unknown
"Putting your best foot forward at least keeps it out of your mouth." ~ Morris Mandel
"Where there's a whip there's a way." ~ Unknown
"Free at last, free at last thank God Almighty free at last." ~ Dr. Martin Luther King
"What would the world be like if "The Little Engine That Could" had failed miserably?" ~ Unknown
"The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end." ~ Neil Young
"Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute." ~ Unknown
"Poor is a man whose pleasure depends upon another's permission." ~ Unknown
"Never play leap frog with a unicorn." ~ Unknown
"Those who have no direction in life go in circles, so round and round I go." ~ Susanne Proulx
99-02-12 ~ These are from John.
"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." ~ Mark Twain
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." ~ Douglas Adams
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." ~ Mark Twain
"The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!" ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
"Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored." ~ The dying words of George Saunders.
"Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!" ~ Tommy Smothers
"Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious." ~ William Feather
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." ~ Douglas Adams
"Nothing ever goes away." ~ Barry Commoner
"Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better." ~ Unknown
"Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day." ~ Unknown
"Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done." ~ Ernie Kovacs
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." ~ Mark Twain
"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?" ~ Irv Kupcinet
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
"Ninety percent of everything is crap." ~ Theodore Sturgeon
"In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it." ~ Unknown
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." ~ Mark Twain
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." ~ Isaac Asimov
"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." ~ M. Cartmill
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." ~ Jeff Marder
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live." ~ Douglas Adams
"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever." ~ Anonymous
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours." ~ Jerome K. Jerome
"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress." ~ Mark Twain
99-02-12 ~ These are from Strange.
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." ~ Mark Twain
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend." ~ Madame Dorothee Deluzy
"Seems like every time history repeats itself the price doubles." ~ Anonymous
"Better keep yourself clean and bright, you are the window through which you must see the world." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"Yesterday is a memory, Tomorrow is a dream, today is the reality...Make the most of it." ~ Anonymous
"Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success." ~ Henry Ford
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." ~ Moliere
"Let experience be your teacher, let challenges be the test of life." ~ Anonymous
"Few minds wear out; more rust out." ~ Christain Nestell Bovee
"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." ~ C.S. Lewis
"The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic." ~ W. Mathews
"One who makes no mistakes, never makes anything." ~ English Proverb
"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try." ~ S. Meldrum
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent." ~ Jean Kerr
"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life, is the source from which self-respect springs." ~ J. Didion
"The street of soon leads to the square of Never." ~ Spanish Proverb
"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise." ~ James R. Lowell
"Well you're young. You know a lot you won't know later on." ~ Margaret Laurence
"Dare to dream - dare to try - dare to fail - dare to succeed." ~ G. Kinsley Ward
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ~ Will Rogers
"True friends don't coddle your weaknesses; they encourage your strengths." ~ Anonymous
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you." ~ William Arthur Ward
"An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal." ~ Anonymous
"The farther backwards you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." ~ Winston Churchill
"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Lets's Party!'" ~ Robin Williams
"Many know how to flatter; few understand how to give praise." ~ Greek proverb
"The only poeple who never fail are those who never try." ~ Ilka Chase
"The person who knows 'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss." ~ Diane Ravitch
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." ~ James Joyce
"When you blame others, you give up the power to change." ~ Robert Anthony
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but a person with a certain set of attitudes." ~ Hugh Downs
"Don't live life with one foot in tomorrow and another in yesterday." ~ Unknown
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~ Unknown
"The way to overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." ~ Lady Bird Johnson
"Maturity is the act of living in peace with that which we cannot change, the courage to change that which can be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference." ~ The Lord's Prayer
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." ~ Oscar Wilde
"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time." ~ Marcel Proust
"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong." ~ Thomas Szasz
"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down." ~ Wilson Mizner
"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them." ~ Man Ray
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it." ~ Marcel Proust
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." ~ Don Marquis
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." ~ Anonymous
"Being an idiot is fun when no one is looking." ~ Unknown
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." ~ Unknown
"Caterpillar sheds its skin to find a butterfly within." ~ Donovan
"The sun shines not on us, but in us." ~ John Muir
"A friend is one who believes in you before you believe in yourself." ~ Unknown
...go back from whence you came...