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I love finding good quotes... I have some saved in a Word document on my laptop so I can pull them up & read them whenever I need some wisdom. :)
So share some of yours!
They can be funny, inspirational, about friendship/love/life/etc.
I'll start:
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than what you settled for. Don’t be afraid to believe that you can have what you want and have what you deserve."
"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."
"When you judge someone, you don't define them. You define yourself."
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"Some people are like Slinkies, they serve no purpose but it makes you smile to push them down a flight of stairs."
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"Winners never quit. Quitters never win."
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"Never be sad of what is over. Just be glad it once was yours."
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xoannabanana- your sig is recently one of my favorites!
i love qoutes..
"Imperfection is beauty; madness is genius; and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." -- marilyn monroe
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies"
-- Aristotle
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
--Audrey Hepburn
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I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
Marquis de Sade
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Marquis de Sade
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Marquis de Sade
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
Marquis de Sade
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Marquis de Sade
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Marquis de Sade
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Marquis de Sade
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
Marquis de Sade
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aurelius
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
Ninon de Lenclos
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon de Lenclos
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
Ninon de Lenclos
A hard man is good to find.
Mae West
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West
I've been in more laps than a napkin.
Mae West
Once a philosopher, twice a pervert
voltaire
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom
William Blake
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal
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Anonymous Love Quotes
A collection of romantic anonymous love quotes.
Love is like the wind, you can't see it, but you can feel it.
Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
You are the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last thing I think about when I go to sleep, ensuring I have a pleasant day and sweet dreams.
Everyone says that you only fall in love once, but that's not true, every time I hear your voice I fall in love all over again.
If I could reach up and hold a star for every time that you've made me smile, the entire sky would be in the palm of my hand.
He holds me when I start to cry. Makes me smile with just his eyes. Shares my hopes, dreams, fears. Wipes away all my tears. I love him without regret. I just haven't found him yet.
That is what I get for falling in love. I can never get him out of my mind. It is the way that he kisses me, and it is the way he makes me fall in love with him.
A rose bud represents the hope and beauty of love and friendship as it blooms and blossoms. Give someone a rose bud to show what you want to blossom in-between you.
I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the Earth, I would hear your footsteps.
Love may not make the world go round, but the encounters make it worth the trip.
Love gives light even in the darkest tunnel.
Love can heal any dying soul.
Before you fall in love, make sure there is someone there to catch you.
God gave us eyes to see the beauty in nature...and hearts to see the beauty in each other.
Love is when you fall asleep thinking about that person and you wake up and think about them until you fall asleep again.
Love is when you know exactly what the other person is going to say before they say it.
Love isn't what makes the world go round, it is what makes the trip worthwhile.
Love is like a butterfly. If you chase after it, it will fly away. But, if you are patient and sit still long enough it will land into your hands.
Love is a tickle around the heart that you can't scratch.
Love is when you don't want to go to sleep, because reality is better than a dream.
May the love you share be as timeless as the tides and as deep as the sea.
Love burns brighter than a candle's flame.
This day I will marry my friend; the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
There is no work in matters of love, only exertions of great joy.
Some people come into our lives, Leave footprints in our hearts, And we are never ever the same.
This thing and you shall never part,
For the gift I give you, is all of my heart.
There are millions of things that I want, but only one thing I really need.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as a cannon,
But its echo lasts A great deal longer!
Love wakes man but once a lifetime. I have never been so awake.
Words just cant express what it is... three words, two people, one feeling.
He who has never loved isn't alive.
Your kiss is the poison in which I want to live my last breath.
Passion is the daughter of love.
While touch is eternity and kisses fill eternity, love lasts through eternity.
Love and trust are siamese sisters.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
The greatest thing you'll every learn, is just to love and be loved in return....
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as a cannon, but it's echo lasts a great deal longer.
I swear that I love but one woman, and that I love you as no other woman was ever loved.
Love is a moment that lasts forever.
To love someone deeply gives you strength, being loved by someone gives you courage.
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to be free.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is that love inspires them. In this sense, everything that comes from love is a miracle.
My heart, my love, my soul... she has the key to them all. She has but to turn the key and allow me to surround her... with warmth and love.
A man sees himself through the eyes of the woman he loves.
Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is in eternity.
For hearing my thoughts, understanding my dreams and being my best friend... For filling my life with joy and loving me without end... I do.
The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
True love doesn't have a happy ending, it's because true love doesn't have an ending.
A heart truly in love never loses hope but always believes in the promise of love, no matter how long the time and how far the distance.
Reflections of you trapped in my eyes as a memory.
Ideally, couples need three lives - one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
While I was walking I stopped for a while and thought of the things I don't have in my life, but I suddenly realized I have you and I feel complete.
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
I don't regret the things I have done or the things I have chosen not to do, because whatever I've done, I must have done something right because I ended up with you.
I miss you when I'm sad, I miss you when I'm lonely, but most of all I miss you when I'm happy.
I love you more today than yesterday, but less than tomorrow.
Once you have loved someone, you can do anything for them, except love them the same way again.
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Come grow old with me, the best is yet to be!
Follow your heart and you'll never get lost.
I marry you because no matter what the question is, we are each other's answer.
To love someone is to look into the face of God.
Deep in the heart, somewhere in the soul, love finds a way to be forever.
I used to think forever was such a long time, but now that I'm with you, forever isn't long enough.
We are one.. to lose thee were to lose myself.
Best image of myself, and dearer half.
My fairest.. Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight.
Love is the finest flower that blooms in God's garden.
Some love lasts a lifetime, true love lasts forever.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
You don't marry someone you can live with ~ you marry the person who you cannot live without.
Never carry a frown because you never know who may fall in love with your smile!
A loving kiss will show the peace.
Love is a noble act of self-giving, the more you give, the more you lose part of you. Yet, you do not become less of who you, but you end up becoming complete.
When you whispered in my ear, you whispered in my heart, and when you kissed my lips, you kissed my soul.
The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love until you give it a way.
Great love and great achievements involve taking great risks.
Love is willing to give anything just to see them smile.
Love is that feeling of security.
Love is that giant leap of faith everyone's always talking about.
Love is trust.
Love isn't here or there, it isn't happy, sad, good or bad. Love is just Love.
It is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul, and I am sure that is true. The lips, however, are the doors, and a kiss is to step through those doors.
Love is that feeling you get when your foot falls asleep, except it feels like your heart did.
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Why do we set such high standards for people when we know the one true love is always going to be the exception?
Love knows no limit to its endurance no end to its trust, Love still stands when all else has fallen.
I love you more today than I did yesterday, but not as much as I will tomorrow.
Sharing a life together is sharing steps in time. The music is different to each of us, but how beautiful the dance.
Don't hold something in your arms that you could never hold in your heart.
I took a dictionary off my shelf to look up the definition of soulmate, and underneath the word soulmate I found you.
Death can not stop true love. All it can do is delay it for awhile.
I missed the warm embrace of lust,
Nothing left from the dearest love,
Nothing just the dust.
Everytime you speak with your lips, everytime you smile, everytime you look in my eyes, your making my life worthwhile.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul you didn't know you were missing.
There is 999 years, 364 days, 23 hours, 59 min., 59 sec. and you only have to love me for one second to complete 1000 years of love.
He holds me when I start to cry
Makes me smile with just his eyes
He shares my hopes, dreams, fears
He wipes away all my tears
I love him without regret I just haven't found him yet...
Love is...holding on knowing he loves another.
Our love is like a circle. It's never ending.
If I could give you a flower every time I thought about how much I love you, I'd empty all the gardens in the world.
The greatest acts of love are done by those who habitually perform small acts of kindness.
Happiness is being married to your best friend.
Kiss me like you did, my heart stopped beating.
To let true love remain unspoken is the quickest road to a heavy heart.
A life without love is no life at all.
Love - a terribly misunderstood emotion, although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
Sometimes we make love with our eyes.
Sometimes we make love with our hands.
Sometimes we make love with our bodies.
Always we make love with our hearts.
Love is like a butterfly. It goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes.
Life and love are the same thing.
All the love that history knows is said to be in every rose, yet all that could be found in two Is less than what I feel for you.
When I first saw you, I was afraid to meet you.
When I first met you, I was afraid to kiss you.
When I first kissed you, I was afraid to love you.
But now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.
Find joy by following your heart.
The greatest use of our life is to love.
The greatest expression of love is time.
And the best time to act is now.
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Giving in its purest form expects nothing in return.
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"It's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission"
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"I want to know everything,
I want to be everywhere,
I want to fuck everyone in the world,
I want to do something that matters."
-Nine Inch Nails, "I Do Not Want This"
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"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."
-John Adams
"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced an inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"Every day should be a good day to die."
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"I always thought eroticism was a beautiful word." - Martha Graham
Martha Graham on Wikipedia
Graham was best known for her use of erotic movement in dance, particularly in Phaedra. Some of her most famous students? Madonna, Alvin Ailey, Bette Davis, Woody Allen, & Liza Minelli.
On being a good housekeeper:
"Yes, dahling, very good. Every time I divorce I keep the house!" - Zsa Zsa Gabor
"I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back." - Zsa Zsa Gabor
"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous." - Coco Chanel
"Fashion fades, only style remains the same." - Coco Chanel
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." - Marilyn Monroe
"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
^^^ I wish someone had just repeated that to me over & over before I spent thousands on those college degrees! All the time I wasted on lesson plans from mediocre professors when I could have really been learning things... it makes me nauseous just to think of!
"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn
"Imagine: four years you could have spent traveling around Europe meeting people, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt." - Shel Silverstein on attending Roosevelt University
"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. " - Ray Bradbury
"College isn't the place to go for ideas." - Helen Keller
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. "- Leonardo da Vinci
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." - Frank Zappa
"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big." - Donald Trump
"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him." - William Lyon Phelps
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." - Leonardo da Vinci
"If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable." - Donald Trump
"The great secret, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another." - George Bernard Shaw
"The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly." - George Bernard Shaw
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." - Larry Flynt
"Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent." - Frank Sinatra
"The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra
"Some people say what I do isn't very liberating. I say it's pretty liberating to get $20,000 for 10 minutes work" - Dita Von Teese
"I have to be a star like another man has to breathe." - Sammy Davis Jr.
"I told him he could have blow jobs or brownies, but I ain't no Betty Crocker!" - Carrie (manager at a club I work)
"I've been in more laps than a napkin. " - Mae West
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." - Katherine Hepburn
"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me." - Barbra Streisand
"Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name." - Anna Nicole Smith
"It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner." - Cher
Not exactly a quote, but I love he point behind the lyrics of "Diamond's Are A Girl's Best Friend", he could leave you any second & his love now won't pay your bills later - so get something that does... diamonds, cash, etc.
Another one that is well known, but I'm not sure of the original source is "A gentleman is someone who puts others at ease". He's not pretentious, he doesn't point out flaws, & he is ALWAYS respectful.
Give a man a fish & you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish & you feed him for a lifetime.
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night"
-Edgar Allen Poe
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"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death" - From Auntie Mame
"If you can't love yourself, you can't love anybody else" - RuPaul
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Kylea2
Another one that is well known, but I'm not sure of the original source is "A gentleman is someone who puts others at ease". He's not pretentious, he doesn't point out flaws, & he is ALWAYS respectful.
The movie "Blast from the Past" ???
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Susan-Va
"If you can't love yourself, you can't love anybody else" - RuPaul
^I really like this one. :thumbsup:
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ArmySGT.
The movie "Blast from the Past" ???
No, there's a lot of different versions of it even before Blast From the Past.
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Kylea2
No, there's a lot of different versions of it even before Blast From the Past.
Sorry! You said Original source and I just read source. Mea Culpa.
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"All right, let's be bad people". Jane in Serenity
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
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"In choosing between two evils I always choose the evil I haven't tried before"- mae west?
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I love all of the Mae West and Zsa Zsa Gabor quotes !!! They were both truly ahead of their time !!!
as to a famous female quote of a different genre ... Margaret Thatcher - " the problem with socialism is that, sooner or later, you run out of other people's money ' !
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^^^ LOL Totally the truth!
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"One side of me says, I'd like to talk to her, date her. The other side of me says, I wonder what her head would look like on a stick?"
"With a girl, there's a lot left in the girl's body without a head. Of course, the personality is gone."
"Even when she was dead, she was still bitching at me. I couldn't get her to shut up!"
Edmund Kemper-serial killer
"If you're going to do something, do it well, and leave something witchy"
"Total paranoia is just total awareness."
Charles Manson
Patrick Bateman: You're a fucking ugly bitch. I want to stab you to death, and then play around with your blood.
Hannibal Lecter: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.