"Congratulations! Today is your day.
You're off to great places! You're off and away!
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what to know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go." -- Dr. Seuss, "Oh, The Places You'll Go!"

"Always look on the bright side of life
If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle, that's the thing" --Monty Python, "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life"

"Peace of mind is better than a piece of ass."
--"Forrest Gump"(Winston Groom)

"I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass." --Counting Crows, "Long December."

"Rationalization is a mental technique that allows you to be unfair to others without feeling guilty." --Unknown

"The words of a gossip are like tasty trifles, and they go down to the inmost body." --Prov 18:8, NKJ (That is, unfortunately, a fundamental truth of human existence.)
 
"The man who is wicked, and thought to be good
Can do no wrong, for no one believes that he would." --Giovanni Boccaccio, "The Decameron."

"Look, I'm doing my best here, all right?'
'Losers always whine about 'their best!" --Nicholas Cage and
Sean Connery (respectively), "The Rock."

"Conceit is God's gift to small people." --Anonymous
 
"Of course I lie to people.  But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good.
The lie is the basic building block of good manners.  That may seem mildly shocking
to a moralist -- but then, what isn't?"
 --Quentin Crisp, "Manners from Heaven"

"You know, Hobbes, sometimes even my lucky rocket-ship underpants don't work." --Calvin

"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and
joy. It's probably because they've forgotten their own."
     --Margaret Atwood

"If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a
story by  Mr. Edgar Allen Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully
express the pent-up  violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average
family."
     --Quentin Crisp, "Manners from Heaven"

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat." --Harry E. Fosdick

"From whence do we come? Who are we? To where are we going?" --Paul Gauguin

"I come from my room, I'm a kid with big plans, and I'm going outside! --Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin?" --Calvin(of Calvin&Hobbes)

"This world is an uncertain realm filled with danger; honor
undermined by the pursuit of power, freedom sacrificed when the weak are
oppressed by the strong. But there are those who oppose these powerful
forces, who dedicate their lives to truth, honor, and freedom. These are
known as Musketeers. Arise. . . and join them." --Disney's "The Three Musketeers."

"And though, the shadow of a sigh
May tremble through the story,
For 'happy summer days' gone by,
And vanished summer glory --
It shall not touch with breath of bale
The pleasance of our fairy-tale." --Lewis Carrol

"Sometimes when you hit the trail, the trail hits back." --old Marbloro Ad

"Speak out, and hide it not within."
        -Homer

"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step." -Napoleon I,

"The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity."-- Anonymous

"The saying is true, the empty vessel makes the loudest sound." --William Shakespeare

"The shadows we see on the walls in front of us come from the flashlight we hold behind us." --David Nicoll

"Too many times we confuse motion with progress." --Cyclops

"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Krishnamarti

"These are days to remember." --10,000 Maniacs, "These Are Days"(I think that's the title)

"People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it." --Ogden Nash

"Everybody hurts, take comfort in your friends." --R.E.M., "Everybody Hurts"

"Obla-di, Obla-da, life goes on, bra, la-la how the life goes on." --The Beatles, "Obla-di, Obla-da"
 

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
  --Jerry Seinfeld

"A man needs a little madness . . . or else he never dares to cut the rope and be free." --Anthony Quinn, "Zorba
the Greek."

"What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say."
    --R.W. Emerson

"Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding."
    --Harvey Danger, "Flagpole Sitta"

"Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die." --The Dave Matthews Band, "Ants Marching."

"What's the meaning of life, what's the meaning of it all?
You've got to learn to dance before you learn to crawl." --Meat Loaf, "Everything Louder than Everything Else"

"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds,
smack your lips over grievances long past, roll your tongue over the prospect
of bitter confrontations to come, savor to the last toothsome morsel both
the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back. . . in many ways
it is a feast for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing
down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you." --Frederick Beuchner, "Wishful Thinking."

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but if you're alive, you've got to flap your arms
and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, you've got to make a lot of
noise, because life is the very opposite of death." --Mel Brooks

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." --Theodore Roosevelt.

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan "Press on!" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
--Calvin Coolidge,Ex-President

"If you have made mistakes. . . there is always another chance for you. . .
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call
"failure" is not the falling down but the staying down." --Mary Pickford, actress

"Don't Dream It. . . Be It." --Frank Furter, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"-- Vincent Van Gogh

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package." -John Ruskin

"Nobody knows what you want except you, and nobody will be as sorry
as you if you don't get it. So don't give up your dreams." ---- Barry Manilow

"To action alone have you a right, and never at all to its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be
your motive; neither let there be in you any attachment to inaction." -- "The Baghvadgita"

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people
who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."--Abigail Van Buren

"If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got." --Radio Commercial,

"Whenever you find that you're on the same side as the majority, it is time to reform." --Mark Twain

"When life throws you lemons I say you wing 'em back and add a couple of your own" --Calvin (of Calvin&Hobbes)

"It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying 'really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style." --Quentin Crisp

"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all
our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion that goes with
us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment, because they'll
never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived."
--Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, "Generations"

"When a problem comes along, you must whip it." --Devo, "Whip It"

"The best way to predict your future is to create it." --Anonymous.

"There is more to life than increasing speed." --Mohandas K. Ghandi

"The past is history, The future, a mystery, and now is a gift. That's
why we call it the present." --Unknown

"Happiness is the meaning and purpose of Life, the whole aim and end of Human existence." --Unknown

"Happiness is a warm puppy." --Charles M. Schultz

"Happiness is a warm gun, mama." --The Beatles

"Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed." -Carl Sandburg-

"To hate someone is to revenge their faults upon yourself." --Alexander Pope (paraphrased)

"You can't hold a man down without being down there with him." --Booker T. Washington

"The longer the sword the shorter the soul." --Neil Hansen Blankenship

"Life is like a comic book. Sometimes you're the hero, sometimes you're the villain, sometimes you're the innocent bystander whose car gets blown up." --Joshua T. Nite 

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find
out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be
amazed at the energy that comes out of you." -- William James

"Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit." --Elbert Hubbard

"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things." -- Anonymous

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." --Al Capone

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I?" --Hillel

"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become
what he should be." --Jimmy Johnson

"Be who you are--No one else wants the job." --Melanie Boyer, Lumberjack

"Plenty of people in your life will stomp on you. You don't need to." --J.A. Costello

"We only learn our limits by going beyond them." -unknown

"Everything you know is wrong: black is white, up is down, and short is long." --Wierd Al Yankovic, "Everything you  know is wrong."

"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas." --Leo Burnett

"While you're saving face, you're losing your a**." --Lyndon Baines Johnson

"You've got to learn to crawl before you learn to walk." --Aerosmith, "Amazing"

"You've got to learn to dance before you learn to crawl." -Meatloaf, "Everything louder than everything else"

"The beginning of strife is like releasing water; therefore stop contention before a quarrel starts." --Proverbs 17:14, NKJ

"Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend." --The Beatles, "We Can Work it Out."

"Do. Or do not. There is no try." --Yoda, "The Empire Strikes Back."

"The very least you can do in life is figure out what you hope for. The very most you can do is live
inside that hope." --Barbara Kingsolver, "Animal Dreams."

"Why shouldn't I have a little fun when I can? Troubles and sorrow I can get every day!" --Boccaccio, "The Decameron"

"I know I can't stop the pain, but, oh, the pain cannot stop me."  Adama Ant, "Gotta be a Sin"

"It's one love, we have to share it, it leaves you, baby, if you don't care for it." --U2, "One"

"Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the ear in inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops." --The Bible, Luke 12:3

"If you can't change your mind...are you sure you have one?" --Bumper Sticker (a wise sage, Mr. Sticker...)

"Subvert the dominant paradigm." --Bumper Sticker

"Does shouting cause change? I don't think so. Usually, it just makes you lose your voice." --Anonymous

 "Either you think--or else others have to think for you and take power
from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and
sterilize you."
      --F. Scott Fitzgerald.

"The road to wisdom? -- Well, it's plain
And simple to express:
Err
and Err
And err again
But less
And less
And less."
  --Piet Hein

"In a completely sane world, MADNESS is the only freedom!"
--J.G. Ballard

"You have the right to your own limitations.  Everyone has the right to
their own learning disabilities."
      --Dr. Zukowski-Faust

"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph."
 --Ken Kesey

"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if
society was eternal."
 --E.M. Forster

"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.  It doesn't matter what you do
in particular, so long as you have your life.  If you haven't had that...what have you
had?"
 --Henry James

"You will never know until you find out."
    --Buckaroo Banzai

"Destiny is the elusively simple matter of becoming who you are.  It
takes comitted effort to choose a path of order in a chaotic world."
        --Batman, "Batman: Secret files."

"The hardest battle in life is to be nobody but yourself in a world
which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else."
    e.e.cummings

"Content thyself with thine estate,
Neither wish death, nor fear his might."
    --Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "My friend, the things that do
attain."

"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."   --John Steinbeck

"Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves,
whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience."
 --Diogenes, cynic of Sinope

"Having your missing tail recovered is all well and good, but remember
that it will have to be reattached.  With a hammer and nail."
    --A.A. Milne's answer to William Ethan Meyer, Eeyore.

"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it
is by no means the most interesting."
       --Dr. Who

"Always remember that no one likes you!"
    --Roland T. Flakfizer, "Brain Donors.

"You know what's wrong with you people? You're ignorant. You don't know
anything. But there's hope for you yet. You're all going to die - someday. Death makes you
smart. You can take a complete idiot and kill him (or her) and he knows more than the smartest person alive: he knows what death is. So don't worry. Help is on
the way."
    -- Stanley Mathis, It's A Complex World

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that
brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me."
    --Paul Maud'Dib, "Dune"

"Memories are the clutter that fill up the dustbin of life."  -- Voice in a dream

"Just think!  Someday a star may gleam upon a cold, grey stone
And trace a name with silver beam and lo, t'will be your own.
The night is speeding on to greet your epitaphic rhyme
Your life is just a little beat within the heart of time.
A little pain, a little shame, a laugh lest you may moan
A little gain, a little fame, A star gleam on a stone."
 --Anonymous, the driver's side door of a friend's truck.

"The less a man makes declarative statements, the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect."
      --Chester Rush, "Four Rooms" the man from Hollywood

"Physical strength is no substitute for perception.  For perception is the key which unlocks the intangible power of the Spirit."
                -Ryoken

"Fix the problem, not the blame."
        -Japanese Saying

"Having strength is one thing, knowing how to use it is another."
                -Rau, "Fist of the North Star"

"Don't be afraid to dream outside the lines."
    --Nevermore, "Sanity Assassin"

"There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity."
     --Douglas MacArthur

"You can stand all night at a red light anywhere in town
Hailing Marys left and right, but none of them slow down.
I've seen the best of men go past...I don't want to be the last.
Give me something fast..."
 --Sisters of Mercy, "Something Fast"

"It's times like this when you just have to stop and ask yourself, 'what
would Brian Boitano do?"
    --"Kyle," South Park

"The line between goodness and stupidity is very, very fine."
 --Creepy Effeminate Villain, "Cave Dwellers"

"The secret to finding financial success in life is to look around and
see what the people around you absolutely cannot live without.  You make that
product or service your life's mission, and you'll be a rich man or woman as the
case may be.  But in looking at your fellows so closely, your discovery
might be downright disturbing.  The sheer number of assholes surrounding
you makes you realize that proctology is a veritable goldmine.  Eeewwww!"
        ---Jim Higuera

"Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around every once in awhile -- you might miss it." --Ferris Beuller

"The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall,
Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life.' The last twist of the knife."
--T.S. Eliot, "Rhapsody on a Windy Night

"Money is inherently evil.  Therefore, the more of it you give away, the
happier you will be.  The more you keep for yourself, beyond the basic
creature comforts, the more it will erode your soul."
    --Joshua T. Nite
 

"Take your life into your own hands, and what happens.  A terrible
thing: no one to blame."
     --Erica Jong

"Smart is when you believe only half of what you hear.
Brilliant is when you know which half to believe."
           --Orben's Current Comedy

"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your
wounds, smack your lips over grievances long past, roll your tongue over the
prospect of bitter confrontations to come, savor to the last toothsome morsel
both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back. . . in many
ways it is a feast for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are
wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you."
    --Frederick Beuchner, "Wishful Thinking."

"They say the best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad."
-Shakespeare-

"Who am I? Why am I here? What is it that I'm searching for in this strange place, day after day?"
 --The Unicorn, "The Last Unicorn"

"As long as I have want, I have reason for living.  Satisfaction is death"
-George Bernard Shaw-

"No cat out of its first fur was ever deceived by appearances, unlike human beings, who seem to enjoy it."
 --The Cat, "The Last Unicorn"

"Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"Every cloud has a silver lining, and every soul is tender to the touch.
 we are made of stone, we are made of steel, and we're all the same when we return to dust."
    --Oingo Boingo, "Flesh&Blood"

"No man is rich who shakes and groans, convinced that he needs more."
        -Boethius

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
    --Mark Twain

"Only the shallow know themselves."
           --Oscar Wilde

"A man with no ethics is a free man."
 --Jake McKenna, "U Turn"

"Life is hard?  Yes -- but let us love it just the same, though it break
every bone in our bodies."
    --Edward Albee

"Being bad feels pretty good, huh?"
 --John Bender, "The Breakfast Club"
 

"If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being. You'd be a
game-show host."
 --Veronica, "Heathers"

"Heather says real life sucks losers dry. If you want to f-- with the
eagles, you have to learn to fly."
 --Veronica, "Heathers"

"Don't carry a grudge.  While you're carrying the grudge, the other
guy's out dancing."
    --Buddy Hackett

"Always be a little kinder than necessary."
    --James M. Barrie

"A taste of life, please
And hold the reality."
    --Ryan Cunningham, master beatnik.

"Pain isn't something you get used to.  You just get distracted from it
when something else comes along that hurts even worse."
        -"To Know God," Jim Higuera

"If we listen to the voices that were silent for so long
If you thought they went away, well, you couldn't be more wrong
If I tell you there is something that we've lost but can retrieve
If I tell you there is hope, will you try to believe?
You remember there's a dream that we long since put aside
With the toys that we have broken and the tears we never cried?
We could have it once again if we try, baby, try."
    --Oingo Boingo, "Try to Believe"

"Vengeance blackens the soul."
 --Alfred, "Batman: Mask of the Phantasm"

"The days wear out the months and the months wear out the years, and a
flux of moments, like an unquiet tide, eats at the black coast of futurity.""
    --Mervyn Peake, "Gormenghast"

"Life is like an onion...you peel off one layer at a time...and sometimes you weep."
 --Carl Sandburg

"There is a vast difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."
 --Marlene Dietrich

"I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry." --Pierre de Beaumarchais

"Any view of things which is not strange is false."
    --Morpheus, "Fables and Reflections" (Neil Gaiman)

"Death is just nature's way of saying 'hey, you're not alive anymore."
    --Bull, Night Court

"Time is all the luck you need."
    --Anonymous

"And until that time when death won't wait/
Let each man rage against his fate."
    --Savatage, "The Wake of Magellan"

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices. "
-- William James

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom
that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that
sits down on a hot stove-lid.  She will never sit down on a hot
stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit
down on a cold one anymore. "
-- Mark Twain

"When in darkness or in doubt/ run in circles, scream and shout."
    --Tom Carpenter, "The Daily Sun"

"Life is pain! Anyone who says differently is selling something."
 --Westley, "The Princess Bride"

"Don't suffer from insanity.  Enjoy every minute of it."
    --Tom Carpenter (and many others)

"It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one
works at it.  And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself OUT
of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or the other,
work out for the best."
    --Destruction, "The Sandman: The Wake"

"This is your life and you do what you want to do, just don't hurt
nobody, unless they ask you" -XTC

"We are who we choose to be."
    --The Sandman: "The Wake"

"Sucking all the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone."
    --John Keating, "Dead Poets Society"

" The best way to predict the future is to invent it. "
     - Alan Kay

"If you wish to view paradise, simply look around and view it."
    --Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder), "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

"Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavour of life, take big bites.
Moderation is for monks." -Robert Heinlien

"Only the best people fight against all obstacles in pursuit of happiness."
 --Juliet Hulme, "Heavenly Creatures"

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody
else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
                  -Michael Konda

"The man of spirit is never bored if his body is exposed to fatigue;
the healthy man never fails to find life light if he has something to
engage his mind."
                --Alexander Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask.

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. "
     - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. "
     - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

"Luck is just opportunity meeting preparation."
 --Andrea Nite Halley

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. "
     - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"I don't know whether I'm alive and dreaming or dead and remembering."
    --Johnny, "Johnny Got His Gun"

"Men have become the tools of their tools. "
     - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"Every laugh, every pain, every tear, every rise of the full moon, is a
reminder of the essence of life. Drink it in."
 --Yojimbo Higuera

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great. "
     - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to
know how to lie well."
 - Samuel Butler

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist
the black flag and begin slitting throats."
     - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "
     - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)