Quotations

"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."
-Anatole France

Quotations?

You might be wondering why I have even bothered to include this page in my website. Anybody could easily go to several webpages and look up quotes on their own if they so desired. However, I wanted to make a compilation of all of my own favorite quotations. I don't know why I like them so much. I suppose sometimes other people can just say stuff better than I can. I've never really been great with words... anyways, if you have a favorite quote you'd like to see here, just email it to me!

You can either scroll straight down to read them, or you can feel free to use the navigation bar located on the left hand side of the screen. Yes, I realize that this page is getting quite large... but I can't help it! I just love too many quotations!

Here they are:

Cats:

"After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference."
--Charlotte Gray

"Beware of people who dislike cats."
--Irish Proverb

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."
--Joseph Wood Krutch

"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast."
--Unknown

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this."
--Unknown

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Computers:

"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
--Paul Ehrlich

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
--Pablo Picasso

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Dance:

"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life. It's the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy."
-Jaques D'Amboise

"When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different."
--Bill Austin

"I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance."
--George Balanchine

"Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion."
--Martha Graham

"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."
--Angela Monet

"To live is to dance, to dance is to live."
--Charles Schulz (Snoopy)

"To those of us with real understanding, dancing is the only pure art form!"
--Charles Schulz (Snoopy)

"Anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness has never danced in the rain."
--Unknown

"Dance: a pleasurable motor reaction, a game forcing excess energy into a rhythmic pattern."
--Unknown

"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and on high heels."
--Unknown

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Family:

"Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements."
--Elizabeth II

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are... you need one."
--Jane Howard

"Family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."
--Ogden Nash

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Friends:

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."
--Joseph Addison

"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy."
--Anonymous

"When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship."
--Anonymous

"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling."
--Arthur Brisbane

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"
--Eugene Kennedy

"A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway."
--Christi Mary Warner

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
--Walt Whitman

"A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have."
--Unknown

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."
--Unknown

"Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
--Unknown

"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget."
--Unknown

"Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."
--Unknown

"We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us."
--Unknown

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Music:

"Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought."
--E.Y. Harbug

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."
--Victor Hugo

"The trouble with real life is that there's no danger music."
--Jim Carrey from The Cable Guy

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Other:

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
--Anonymous

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
--Milton Berle

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
--Rita Mae Brown

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
--Agatha Christie

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
--Winston Churchill

"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
--Cicero

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
--James Dean

"Foolish acts by clever people. Wild statements by intelligent people. Crimes committed by decent folks. That's what revolutions are."
--De Bonald

"During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you’ve ever known, and nothing is lost. That’s what’s eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river of life that has no end."
--Harriet Doerr

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
--Susan Ertz

"He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger."
--Romain Gary

"Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another's trouble, / Courage in your own."
--Adam Lindsay Gordon

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."
--Jack Handey

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
--Lou Holtz

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
--Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

"You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh."
--Jay Leno

"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
--John Stuart Mill

"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."
--Cynthia Nelms

"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."
--Bob Newhart

"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious."
--George Orwell

"Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret."
--Laurence J. Peter

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
--Thomas Szasz

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
--Mother Teresa

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
--Mark Twain

"It's a control freak thing. I wouldn't let you understand."
--S.H. Underwood

"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment."
--T. H. White

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
--Oscar Wilde

"Take some time off to just relax. Enjoy being alive and do nothing in particular. Renew your energy."
--Unknown

"Time is a friend, a healer, a maker of dreams."
--Unknown

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