Quotes – Set 1
A smile is the perfect gift, personal and encouraging.
-Unknown
I like nonsense, it wakes me up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
-Dr. Seuss
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
-Peter Ustinov
Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment.
-Evan Esar
I made myself entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
-Augusten Burroughs
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and children to adults.
-Thomas Szasz
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
-Robert McCloskey
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone Wrong?”/ then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.”
-Charles M. Schulz
I am kind of Jealous of the life I’m supposedly leading.
-Zach Baff
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
-Dr. Seuss
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
-Thomas Carlyle
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
-Kurt Vonnegut
There are two childhoods. There’s the one you live and there’s the one you come to understand.
-Mia Tyler, from her book entitled “Life’s Lessons Learned”
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
-Dr. Seuss
Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.
-Evan Esar
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
-Sir Francis Bacon
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-Herm Albright
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
-Samuel Johnson
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
-Ellen Goodman
If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
-Jimmy Buffet
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
-Herman Hesse
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-Jack London
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
-Thomas Jefferson
Lies are like children: they’re hard work, but it’s worth it because the future depends on them.
-Pam Davis, House M.D., It’s A Wonderful Lie, 2008