Echoing Words

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Winnie the Pooh

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Mabel
“Mad About You”

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Victor Hugo

I am fortune’s fool!

William Shakespeare
Romeo And Juliet

To ski, however well or poorly, is a reminder - whatever one may for a long time have suspected - that one is alive, and that living is tremendous fun. There isn’t any other game to compare with it in the world.

James Riddell

You ain’t leadin’ but two things, right now: Jack and shit… and Jack left town.

Ash
“Army of Darkness”

Only the dead have seen the end to war.

Plato

e^iπ + 1 = 0

Leonhard Euler

Because it is there.

George Mallory

Genius lives on, all else is mortal.

Andreas Vesalius

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Aristotle

We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

One man looks at a dying bird and thinks there’s nothing but unanswered pain. That death’s got the final word, it’s laughing at him. Another man sees that same bird, feels the glory, feels something smiling through it.

Pvt. Witt
“The Thin Red Line”

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

Woody Allen

At any moment, a great moment.

New York Yankees slogan

There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

Annie Dillard

Life is a moment between two eternities.

Blaise Pascal

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

This is the regret that you make

Earl Partridge
“Magnolia”

Here’s to the roses and lilies in bloom,
You in my arms and I in your room.
A door that is locked, a key that is lost,
A bird and a bottle, and a bed badly tossed,
And a night that is 50 years long.

Herb Caen

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

“Where are we?”

“Middle of nowhere.”

“Why?”

“Because there’s no better place to be.”

Carl Hiaasen
Stormy Weather