quotes about yourself

Men are like a fine wine. They start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. ~Author Unknown


Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ~Roger Caras


Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call. ~Richard Lewis


Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. ~William Ewart Gladstone


Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort. ~Will Rogers


If the author had said "Let us put on appropriate galoshes," there could, of course, have been no poem. ~Author Unknown


War hath no fury like a noncombatant. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment


Platitude: a banal or stale remark; a commonplace or trite remark or idea, especially one uttered as if it were original or momentous.


God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper, The Task


The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials. ~John Fischer


When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living. ~James Robertson


I'm hitting the woods just great, but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them. ~Harry Toscano


Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ~Ambrose Bierce


A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition. ~Charles Caleb Colton A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. ~Francis Bacon


I'm a babe magnet... just the wrong end. ~Author Unknown


Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. ~Desmond Tutu


A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. ~Doug Linder