love quotes and thoughts

I knew a man who once said, "death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back." ~From the movie Gladiator



If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~David Carradine



The finish line is sometimes merely the symbol of victory. All sorts of personal triumphs take place before that point, and the outcome of the race may actually be decided long before the end. ~Laurence Malone, about bicycle racing



Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ~Homer



Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966



Go the extra mile. It's never crowded. ~Author Unknown



The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~Gilda Radner



Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust. ~Author Unknown



I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, "Get the hell off my property." ~Joan Rivers



History is philosophy teaching by examples. ~Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War



And this tattooing had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. ~Herman Melville, Moby-Dick



If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me? ~Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, "Free Bird," One More From the Road, 1973, performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd



The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. ~Euclid



Platonic love is love from the neck up. ~Thyra Smater Winsolow



There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. ~Archibald MacLeish



I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles. ~Sam Snead, about golf



I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. ~Josh Billings



It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~Attributed to Harry S Truman



When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? ~Rene Rivkin