Long A: The Quote Garden began in 1987 when I was 13 years old and read The Scarlet Letter. As I was reading, I noticed some sentences that I really liked and wrote them on a notepad as I went along. And that is where my passion for quotations began. From then on I obsessively wrote down any short excerpts I liked and kept my collection on paper and in WordStar for CP/M as well as turning my favorites into amateur mini-posters and taping them to my bedroom walls. In early 1998 I began sharing my collection with the world by starting a site on GeoCities and learning HTML. Both the site and my obsession for quotes grew quickly with this new platform for sharing. I moved to quotegarden.com in 2001 and continue to this very day maintaining the site by typing every quote and piece of code from scratch into Notepad, and carrying paper and pen with me everywhere I go in case I see anything quotable! Believe it or not, I have yet to finish placing my entire collection online, there are still thousands of quote-scribbled scraps of paper here and there, torn-edged articles with highlighting, etc which I will eventually get around to posting.
The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth. ~Thomas Fuller
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. ~Woody Hayes
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. ~Carl Sandburg
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said 'Stop! don't do it!' 'Why shouldn't I?' he said. I said, 'Well, there's so much to live for!' He said, 'Like what?' I said, 'Well...are you religious or atheist?' He said, 'Religious.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?' He said, 'Christian.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?' He said, 'Protestant.' I said, 'Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?' He said, 'Baptist!' I said, 'Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist church of god or Baptist church of the lord?' He said, 'Baptist church of god!' I said, 'Me too! Are you original Baptist church of god, or are you reformed Baptist church of god?' He said, 'Reformed Baptist church of god!' I said, 'Me too! Are you reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?' He said, 'Reformed Baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!' I said, 'Die, heretic scum,' and pushed him off. ~Emo Phillips
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~Novalis
Sewing forever, housework whenever. ~Author Unknown
Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy. ~Robert A. Heinlein
Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week! ~Lee Fox Williams
The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. ~Alfred Tonnelle
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. ~Bill Copeland
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens, The Crock of Gold
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. ~Don Marquis
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. ~George Santayana
If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG. ~Jack Nicholson
Nature will not be admired by proxy. ~Winston Churchill
One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~Herb Caen
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~Unknown
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won't be able to tell the carrots from the onions. ~Arthur Bloch
One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. ~M.M. Musselman
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. ~Hermann Hesse
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