quotes about change and moving on

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes. ~The Houghton Line, November 1965



On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ~William Jennings Bryan



My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson



Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino



I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I like naked women. I'm a bloke. I'm supposed to like them. We're born like that. We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one.... When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark"... The story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. ~Coupling, "Inferno," 2 June 2000, written by Steven Moffat



I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. ~George Herbert Palmer



Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ~Henry van Dyke



If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle



The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. ~Henry Miller



Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. ~Ecclesiastes 1:2



Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? ~Cicero



He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors. ~Eldridge Cleaver, "Notes on a Native Son," Soul on Ice, 1968



Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap. ~Liv Ullmann



What do nudists wear on casual Fridays? ~Author Unknown



Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. ~Mary Pickford



I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. ~Abraham Cowley, The Garden, 1666



When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. ~Joseph Joubert



If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself and your dreams. ~Clive Barker