Story behind these quotes:

Let's see, one day when I was in my Senior English class I looked around the room. I saw many quotes around the room on posters and such.. Not wanting to listen to the teacher lecture, I got out some paper and began copying down the quotes. Then after class ended, I went to the cafeteria. I took out my paper, and while eating lunch, I began writing a list of all the quotes that have affected me, or just quotes that I liked... I even made a few up! (marked with a :)) Here is a list of what I wrote that day and some others since that day. Some are funny while others are just thought-provoking.. I just decided to put them up for others to enjoy...

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

"Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"Idleness is the enemy of the soul."

"If you take man as he is, you make him worse. If you take man as he should be, you elevate him to what he can be."

"These are the good 'ol days."

"The future is never real."

"Striving is better than arriving."

"There is a sucker born every minute."

"Beware the ides of March."

". . . I recognized sarcasm as the protest of those who are weak."

"Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered."

"Double Double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble." (effervescent...private joke :))

"Pleasures are desirable if they are moral in origin."

"Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

"Welcome to wherever you are."

"Tis' madness, yet there is method in it."

"It's better to burn out than fade away."

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

"Death is life demagnetized."

"To read is to write in one's mind."

"I don't know how World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks."

"Death is defined as . . ."

"She walked with EL and then she was not."

"Have you ever seen a blind rabbit?"

"Truth is always opinionated."

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."

"What is the point to relive the past?"

"Life is an open-ended question."

"Subvert the dominant paradigm."

"Everybody else is doing it so why can't we?"

"They call the wind mariah."

"So it is said, so it shall be done."

"A decision is what occurs after people are tired of thinking."

"Tomorrow never comes."

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."

"History is a race between education and catastrophe."

"If you think you can, you're right. If you think you can't, you're right."

"Anybody capable of getting themselves made president should by no means be allowed to have the job."

"I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."

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Some of these quotes I have actually made up myself, however most of the quotes are from other people. I did not list any of the sources for these quotes which I admit I should have done.. Oh well! :) If you want to give me some feedback Email me. Bye Bye now!

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