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I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes. —James Baldwin

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you. —Donald Robert Perry

PETER: Look! There’s a message in my Alpha-Bits! It says “Ooooooooo”!
BRIAN: Those are Cheerios, Peter. –The Family Guy

“People are more violently opposed to fur than leather, because it’s safer to pick on rich women than biker gangs.” —Red Green

This guy said “Get out of here, or I’ll tear you limb from limb,”
I said, “You know they refused Jesus, too,” the guy said, “You ain’t him.” —Bob Dylan

I don’t know, I’m just making this up as I go. —Indiana Jones

It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious. —Bill Hicks

He needs to learn that petulance is not sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective. —Disraeli

A Gentleman should cry less and drink more. —Francois Rabelais

It’s okay to laugh during sex. Just don’t point. —Pixel

Once you have pulled the pin from Mr. Grenade, he is no longer your friend. —Unknown

My God, Peggy! I’m trying to contain an outbreak, and you’re driving the monkeys to the airport! —Hank Hill

There is life before coffee. It is not, however, intelligent life. —Unknown

That which does not kill me makes me stronger. —Friedrich Nietzche

Nietzsche was dead wrong. That which doesn’t kill us most often leaves us maimed and broken. —Sam Robinson

Five days a week my body is a temple, the other two, it’s an amusement park —Garibaldi, Babylon 5

Power corrupts. Absolute power…is kinda neat. —Gesi Rovario

I said “I’m so happy I could die,” she said “Drop dead,” and left with another guy. —Elvis Costello

Eagles soar, but a weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine —Unknown

Oh no, not another learning experience! —Unknown

Don’t try to outweird me, I get weirder things than you with my breakfast cereal. —Zaphod Beeblebrox, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Top 20 Love Quotes of All Time

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1. “A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergmen

2. “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

3. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities” – Janos Arnay

4. “In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.” – Margaret Anderson

5. “…..I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met…” – The Wedding Date

6. “Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.” – Aphra Behn

7. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

8. “In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.” – Bliss and Cerney

9. “Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.” – Sarah Bernhardt

10. You make me want to be a better man” – Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets

11. Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime, and never let go till we’re gone.” – Titanic Theme, My Heart Will Go On

12. “What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes…” – Elizabeth Barret Browning

13. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

14. “Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.” – Robert Browning

15. “If every raindrop would be one of your smiles, I wish it rains heavily throughout, so that there is no space for unhappiness in your life” – Unknown

16. “I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft

17. “You’re nothing short of my everything.” – Ralph Block

18. “Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.” – Euripides

19. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein

20. “What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.” – Victor Hugo

Famous Inspirational Quotes

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“I had a hole in my heart, so I threw away my plate, because nothing filled me up, no matter what I ate.” – Unknown

“Fasting is a medicine” – St. John

“Self control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive” – George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing tastes as good as thin feels” – Unknown

“In eating a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink and the rest left empty” – Talmud

“I saw few die of hunger, of eating 100,000” – Benjamin Franklin

“In the body, as in sculpture, perfection is not attained when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Author Unknown

“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat twice as much as nature requires” – Benjamin Franklin

“Most people eat as though they were fattening themselves for the market” – Author Unknown

“Three good meals a day is bad living” – Benjamin Franklin

“How many pounds till I am happy?
How many pounds till I get thin?
Three more pounds till I am skinny
Three more pounds and I win!” – Unknown

“I do eat normally – only what is needed for survival. I can’t help that we live in a piggish society where gluttony is the norm and everyone else is constantly stuffing themselves. ” – Unknown

Short Funny Quotes

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“When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep — not screaming, like the passengers in his car” – Anonymous

“I hope life isn’t a joke, because I don’t get it.” – Anonymous

“You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.” – Dean Martin

“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” – Anonymous

“I’m not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know that I’m not dumb. I also know I’m not blonde.” – Dolly Parton

“Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.” – Yogi Berra

“I’m in no condition to drive…wait! I shouldn’t listen to myself, I’m drunk!” – Homer Simpson

“If at first you do not succeed, then skydiving is surely not meant for you.” – Anonymous

“A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.” – Bill Cosby

“Girls want a lot of things from one guy. Conversely, guys want one thing from a lot of girls.” – Anonymous

“Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.” – Jerry Seinfeld

“Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.” – Anonymous

“Aim for the stars. But first, aim for their bodyguards.” – Anonymous

“I’ve never been married, but I tell people I’m divorced so they won’t think something is wrong with me.” – Elayne Boosler

“To cease smoking is the easiest thing. I ought to know. I’ve done it a thousand times.” – Mark Twain

“My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.” – Paul Getty

“If at first you don’t succeed, order pizza.” – Anonymous

“Hard work never hurt anyone, but why take the chance.” – Anonymous

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.” – Albert Einstein

“I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was “You’ll never find anyone like me again!” I’m thinking, “I should hope not! If I don’t want you, why would I want someone like you.”” – Anonymous

“Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff.” – Anonymous

“Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.” – Anonymous

“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”- Anonymous

“Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.” – Benny Hill

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

Sunday Quotes

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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. – H. L. Mencken

After I’d preached a message on Sunday night, I’d print it up. – Tim LaHaye

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord’s day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers. – Charles Buck

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. – Irving Babbitt

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life – it lives in the constant present. – John Guare

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll. – Jimmy Connors

But I can’t wait to watch the Tonys this Sunday. I’m really glad Broadway is doing so well this year, especially with its straight plays. It’s been a wonderful year. – Gregory Harrison

But if I wasn’t playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away. – Paul Gascoigne

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. – Albert Schweitzer

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? – Johan Huizinga

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don’t understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn’t like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It’s the kind of a life a decent man leads, it’s something to live for and to die for. – Dalton Trumbo

Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don’t ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers? – Martin Goldsmith

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. – Stephen Leacock

I am excited about this. We’ve got half of our goal. I’d love to see us get a little bit more than half our goal and not be so deeply into this thing going into Sunday, but I feel good about everything. – Hal Sutton

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood. – Leverett Saltonstall

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon. – Ida B. Wells

I decided he’d changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn’t like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks. – Anthony Holden

I don’t have an objective overview of Black Sunday. – Barbara Steele

I don’t read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either. – Tom Holt

Top 15 Inspirational Quotes

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1. If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. –Walt Disney

2. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau

3. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions-as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. – Friedrich Nietzsche

5. Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

6. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. – Mahatma Gandhi

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

8. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

9. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. – Robert Frost

10. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. – Swami Vivekananda

11. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else- Winston Churchill

12. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

13. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.-Napoleon Hill

14. In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.-Theodore Roosevelt

15. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.-Roy Goodman

Bonus:

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. –Eleanor Roosevelt

Trust Quotes About Love

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* A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly who knows the best and worst of us and who loves us in spite of all our faults. ~ Charles Kingsley
* The best proof of love is trust. ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
* Trust lies at the core of love; there can be no true love without trust. ~ M.K. Soni
* Trust is always earned, never given. ~ R. Wiliams
* We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. ~ Walter Anderson
* It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it. ~ Anonymous
* A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. ~ Nanette Newman
* Trust enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of your partner’s hand, knowing they will be handled with care. ~ Carl S. Avery
* When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things. ~ Real Live Preacher
* There are people I know who won’t hurt me. I call them corpses. ~ Randy K. Milholland
* A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney

Trust Quotes

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* Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience. ~ Stephen R. Covey
* You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. ~ Frank Cane
* Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside. ~ Tony Alessandra
* The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them. ~ Count di Camillo Cavour
* As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ~ Goethe
* The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
* Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ~ Benjamin Spock
* Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. ~ Booker T. Washington
* One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. ~ E.M. Forster
* To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. ~ George MacDonald
* A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really trust anyone else. ~ Cardinal De Retz
* The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust. ~ Brian Tracy
* You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Indira Gandhi
* Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophy Quotes

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“The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.” – Bertrand Russell

“Whenever people agree with me I feel I must be wrong.” – Oscar Wilde

“Some people drown, that’s all. It’s not fair but it happens. Some people drown.” – Stephen King, Stand By Me

“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” – Al Capone

“Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.” – Graham Greene

“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” – Sigmund Freud

“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” – Mark Twain

“In the long run we are all dead.” – John Maynard Keynes

“The grass is always greener in a cemetary.” – Amanda Gonzalez

“An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.” – Donald R. Perry Marquis

Love Quotes

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* “Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” ~ Henry Louis Mencken
* “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” ~ Franklin P. Jones
* “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
* “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” ~ Aristotle
* “Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” ~ Richard Bach
* “Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
* When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ~ Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
* “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” ~ Janos Arnay
* “Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks…” ~ John Dunne
* “I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path.” ~ Andre Gide
* “It’s so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it’s not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it…. In our hands.” ~ Jaka
* “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” ~ John Keats
* “The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it…you and you alone make me feel that I am alive…Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” ~ George Moore
* And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation”. ~ Kahlil Gibran
* “The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.” ~ Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) English Novelist, Critic, Dramatist
* “A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.” ~ George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) American Editor, Critic
* “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” ~ Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) Swedish Naturalist, Mathematician, Scientist, Theologian
* “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) American Novelist, Playwright, Anthropologist