Random Quotes

There’s a thread on one of the forums I post on about quotes.. Quotes people like or asking about certian quotes they’ve seen places. While looking up a quote I only partially remembered, I ended up reading through tons of different quotes of everyone from Howard Stern to William Shakespeare. There have been some that I really liked, some are corny, some are nice, and some are just damn funny.. I guess we all connect with different things for different reasons. So quotes that stick with one may be meaningless to another, I will tell mine anyway.

On Love

• Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
  – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• All love that has not friendship for its base,
  Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
  – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Infantile love follows the principle: “I love because I am loved.”
  Mature love follows the principle: “I am loved because I love.”
  Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.”
  Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.”
  – Erich Fromm
• Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
  – Franklin P. Jones
• The sage said, “The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget.
  – Hazrat Inayat Khan

On Anger

• Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power, that is not easy.
  – Aristotle
• Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
  – Thomas A Kempis

On Men

• All men hear is blah, blah, blah, blah, SEX, blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah, BEER.
  — Dennis Leary
• Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of.
  — Kathy Lette
• Men can read maps better than women. Cause only the male mind could conceive of one inch equalling a hundred miles.
  — Roseanne Barr

On Women

• Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
  — Charlotte Whitton
• A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s. She changes it more often.
  — Oliver Herford
• A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
  — Joey Adams

On Marriage

• In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to ‘Until debt do us part’.
  — Sam Ewing
• It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
  — Richard Jeni
• Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
  — Jackie Mason

Ok I’m tired of reading them now… those were just the interesting ones I found along the way. This is what happens when you end up awake at 5am in the morning cleaning up dog puke and can’t get back to sleep. I try to think of it as practice for if/when I finally ever become a mom..