1. I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

2. Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Benjamin Franklin

3. You're never too old to become younger.

Mae West

4. I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

Pablo Casals

5. Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

6. When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

7. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Elizabeth I

8. People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

9. Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce

10 A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

Bert Leston Taylor

11. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker

12. Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Dylan Thomas

13. A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

Daniel J. Boorstin

14. A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Fred Allen

15. A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

H. L. Mencken

16. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger

17. The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

18. Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

19. Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

20. People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

Leo J. Burke

21. Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Dorothy Parker

23. Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

24. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Steven Wright

25. The wise man will love; all others will desire.

Afranius

26. One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

Alexander A. Bogomoletz

27. Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.

Alexander Graham Bell

28. Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

Arab Proverb

29. Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle

30. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

Aristotle

31. It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle

32. How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

Belva Plain

33. The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Oprah Winfrey

34. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

35. It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.

Randy K. Milholland

36. Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.

Tommy Cooper

37. There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Victor Hugo

38. Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

William Dement

39. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

40. Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

41. Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

42. He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

43. Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

44. If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Anonymous

45. It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

46. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Beverly Sills

47. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

48. If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Bill Lyon

50. They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy

and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.

David Assael

51. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw

52. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

53. May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

Anonymous

54. To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.

Anonymous

55. No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

56. We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Cato the Elder

57. There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

Edward Wallis Hoch

58. You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Carrie Fisher

59. Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

Fred Allen

60. You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Fred Allen

61. Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

62. Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

63. Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

64. Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

65. Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

66. There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

67. He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Abraham Lincoln

1. The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

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Alfred North Whitehead

69. It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

70. Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

71. When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

Bill Clinton

72. It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.

Denise Caruso

73. The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

Esther Dyson

74. My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

Penn Jillette

75. It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus

76. Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

77. Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

Bible, Old Testament

78. Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Erica Jong

79. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells

80. It is better to be envied than pitied.

Herodotus

81. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

82. The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

83. Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

84. Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

85. Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

86. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

87. A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

88. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

89. The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Mark Twain

90. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato

91. A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian

92. Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

93. Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

93. Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

94. We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

95. When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

96. But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

97. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen

98. True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

99. To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

100. Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare