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Quotes

"All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." -Professor Pangloss from Candide

I don't know how or when this bizarre hobby of mine started, but I do enjoy reading and collecting quotes. I remember I used to rip out the quote page from my mom's Reader's Digest, but I got addicted to them before that. This page only represents a portion of my collection, they are the ones I feel most people can relate to in some way. If anyone knows who the anonymous speaker is for the following quotes, I would appreciate it if you would let me know too.

I have recently found myself renewed by Taoism and I have a seperate page of quotes that help me to stay on my path. Not all of these quotes are specifically related to Tao, but I see a relation. I hope these quotes inspire you as much as they do me. my path

History Art Friendship/Love Truisms Dreams Humour Makes you think my Favourites

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History
"History is an accumulation of error." -Norman Cousins

"History, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." -from The Cynic's World Book

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhuasted all other alternatives." -Abba Eban

"History would be an excellent thing if only it were true." -Leo Tolstoy

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Art/Music
"There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts." -David Hockney

"Classical music is one of the best things that ever happend to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life." -Yo-Yo Ma

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -Scott Adams

"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We Listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind." -Lewis Thomas

"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams." -Arthur W.E. O'Shanghnessy

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your instrument. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." -Charlie Parker

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." -Victor Hugo

"Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul." -Shneur Zalman

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist." -Oscar Wilde

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -Aldous Huxley

"In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time." -Charles Mingus

"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain." -George Szell

"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words." -anon

"Without music, life would be a mistake." -Freidrch Nietzsche

"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best." -Henry Van Dyke

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Friendship/Love
"You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
The final step you must take alone.
No wisdom is better than this when known:
That every hard thing is done alone." -Herman Hesse

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes." -Doug Larson

"When I find myself fading I close my eyes and realize my friends are my strength." -anon

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope that I should have the guts to betray my country." -E. M. Forste

"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them." -Evelyn Waugh

"Find friendship with yourself. Until you can, it will be difficult to find friendship with anyone else." -unknown

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." -Elbert Hubbard

"If there ever is a tomorrow
When we're not together
There is something you must always remember.
You are braver than you believe.
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is,
Even if we're apart,
I'll always be with you." -Christopher Robbins to Pooh

"A friend is simply one soul in two bodies." -Aristotle

"People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there." -anon

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you've forgotten the words." -anon

"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated." -Alphonse De Lamaertine

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." -anon

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." -W. Somerset Maugham

"Children of a future age,
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time,
Love, sweet Love! was thought a crime!" -Oscar Wilde

"Share your smile with everyone, but save your kiss for only one." -anon

"The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't until you give it away." -anon

"Some see life-long relationships and marriage as a destination while others view them as a means of traveling." -unknown

"Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." -Erica Jong

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." -Barbara De Angelis

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties." -Jules Renard

"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen

"We have never met, yet we have known each other before time existed." -unknown

"Love is when the thoughts of but one person fill your heart, when they mean more than life to you, when you know that you would do anything for them and shall die if they are taken away from you. Desire is when you ache to see them and touch them, when they cause your body to burn and tremble. Desire does not demand love before it can ensnare you, but desire with love creates a powerful bond!" -unknown

"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire." -La Rochefoucauld

"Crushes are like wishes- they're better left unsaid. You never know when one might come true." -Zack Ortman

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Truisms
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it." -Henry Ford

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -Oscar Wilde

"The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence has a limit." -anon

"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors." -Ludwig van Beethoven

"The leader who does not hestitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader."

"It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know- and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything." -Joyce Cary

"The busiest people do not always get the most done."

"There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action." -Adlai Stevenson

"Any frontal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are ready to defend their most precious possession- their ignorance." -Hendrik Willem van Loon

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." -William McAdoo

"Morality is the observance of the rights of others." -unknown

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." -Eric Hoffer

"Whichever way you look at it, in order to succeed, another must fail." -unknown

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they will avoid," -Soren Kierkegaard

"Never argue with a stupid person. First they'll drag you down to their level, then they will beat you with experience." -anon

"Anyone without a sense of humour is at the mercy of everyone else." -William Rotsler

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten." -anon

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -Robert Benchley

"How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true." -Logan Smith

"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other prejudice by noon." -George Aiken

"Having children no more makes you a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." -Michael Levine

"The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts is to become aquainted with Truth." -Eliza Farnham

"What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might." -Cicero

"One seventh of your life is spent on Monday." -anon

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" -John Greenleaf Whittier

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people." -Lucille Harper

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now- always." -Albert Schweitzer

"Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right." -Igor Stravinsky

"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards." -Baltasar Gracian

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Dreams
"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking." -Margaret Fuller

"You are innocent when you dream." -Tom Waits

"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry." -Michel Leiris

"It is just as important to follow your dream through the bad times as the good times." -unknown

"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing." -John Locke

"Dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations, but art is required to sort and understand them." -Montaigne

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Humour
"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress." -Liz Smith

"Last night as I was laying in bed, looking at the stars, I thought to myself "Where's the ceiling?" -anon

"When will they invent a remote with a mute button that works on real, live people?" -anon

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want- an adorable pancreas?" -Jean Kerr

"I used to think the brain was the most fascinating part of the body. Then I thought, look what's telling me that." -anon

"A day without fusion is like a day without sunshine." -anon

"Atheism is a non-prophet organisation." -anon

"Autopsy is a dying practice." anon

"Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat."

"Hiroshima 45........Chernobyl 86........Windows 95...."

"Never insert a disk into the drive upside down. The data can fall off the surface of the disk and jam the intricate mechanics of the drive." -Advice for the PC novice

"A friend is someone who will help you move furniture. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body." -anon

"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing." -anon

"What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over." -anon

"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive- you are leaking." -Fran Lebowitz

"Every time I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's face, I have to laugh, because...what is that thing?" -anon

"God put me on this Earth to complete a number of things. Right now I'm so far behind, I'll never die." -Bill Waterson

"If all the experts in the world were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion." -anon

"Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that." -anon

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Makes you think
"Nothing but the heart can change the heart." -unknown

"When they took the sixth amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent."
"When they took the fourth amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs."
"When they took the second amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun."
"Now they've taken the first amendment, and I can say nothing about it." -unknown

"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." -anon

"We must be our own before we can be another's." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." -Mother Teresa

"We often see further through a tear, than through a telescope." -anon

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." -Mark Twain

"Snowflakes are some of nature's most fragile things, but just look what happens when they stick together." -anon

"Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character." -Vince Gill

"Integrity needs no laws." -unknown

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." -Sam Ewing

"Well done is better than well said." -Benjamin Franklin

"The sooner we can accept that the things that we think and feel are mostly quite commonplace and normal, the sooner we can be truthful about ourselves."

"Look back on your life. Now look forward in your life. Now look inside your life." -unknown

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." -George Washington Carver

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; Others whenever they go." -anon

"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have." -Kathleen Sutton

"There is a great difference in believing something still, and believing it again." -W.H. Auden

"Our life is what our thoughts make of it. Learn to discipline your mind." -unknown

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." -H. Jackson Brown

"It's no good wandering through life wanting to be someone. You have to be clear who that someone is that you want to be."

"A stumble may prevent a fall." -Thomas Fuller

"Some goals are so worthy, it's glorious even to fail." -anon

"All that is gold does not glitter, not all of those who wander are lost..." -J.R.R. Tolkien

"When you are arguing with an idiot, make sure the other person isn't doing the same thing." -anon

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my Favourites
"Forgotten is forgiven." -F. Scott Fiztgerald

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

"I close my eyes in order to see." -anon

"If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is full and you can give things out of that." -Frances Burnett

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." -Epictetus

"You can't be over-booked, only under-read." -John Drybred

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified is not a crime." -Ernest Hemingway

"A definition is no proof." -William Pinkney

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi

"He who sings frightens away his ills." -Cervantes

"If you feel sad, look at the dawn with all of it's beauty, for my soul shall have it's home in the rising of the sun." -anon

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." -Thomas Jefferson

"We shall not cease from explorations, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." -T.S. Elliot

"A man is known by the silence he keeps." -Oliver Herford

"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears." -John Cheney

"I am no such thing. I am myself, myself alone." -anon

"The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds." -Robert Henri

"Well, I want to grow young again framed in moons and stars and maybe a little magic." -anon

"Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there's a light shining somewhere nearby." -Ruth Renkel

"Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars." -Charles Mead

"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream you went to Heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah what then?" -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Perhaps because he believed it, it might come true." -Temple Bailey The Blue Window

"A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice even if it's a whisper." -Barry Kaufman

"All you need to do to recieve guidance is to ask for it and then listen." -Sanaya Romen

"Pity the meek for they shall inherit the Earth." -Don Marquis

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." -Horace Walpole

"I am always ready to learn but I do not always like to be taught." -Winston Churchill

"Wash your hands in this cotton candy, and open your textbooks and cry." -anon

"All our souls are written in our eyes." -Edmond Rostand

"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honour him for what he is." -Herman Hesse

"No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love, and understanding." -Louis Gerstner, Jr

"We will never again see each other, but I hope that once in a while, you will think of me kindly for I will certainly think that way of you." -Kai Allard Liao

"Will you put me in chains attached to this solid ground of bleak ordinariness, or have the courage to teach me how to fly?" -anon

"I am not insulting your intelligence, I am challenging your knowledge." -anon

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." -Henry Brooks Adams

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." -Will Rogers

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