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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. – Bill Wilson

All mankind love a lover. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Robert Frost

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. – Jules Renard

One’s first love is always perfect until one meets one’s second love. – Elizabeth Aston

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. – Woody Allen

We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find. – Anonymous

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. – H. L. Mencken

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. – Rose Franken

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. – Mark Overby

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it. – Swedish Proverb

Must Read Motivational Quotes

“Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeeded.” – Emily Dickinson

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie

“Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G. K. Chesterton

“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“Encouragement is a necessary part of supervision.” – Thomas J. Watson

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit” – Aristotle

“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.” – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – George S. Patton

“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder

“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” – St. Clement of Alexandra

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

Character Quotes

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. – Unknown

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. – Thomas B Macaulay

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.  – James D. Miles

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character.  It’s not hard.  Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.  – Unknown

Most people say that it’s the intellect which makes a great scientist.  They are wrong: it is character. – Albert Einstein.

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.  – Elbert Hubbard

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character – Albert Einstein

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have – Unknown

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power – Abraham Lincoln

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. – Stephen Covey

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming. – Jim Rohn

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character! – Theodore Roosevelt

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.  – John Wooden

How true Daddy’s words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. – Anne Frank

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. – Bruce Lee

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.  – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.  – Kurt Vonnegut Jr

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity. – Roy L Smith

Funny Quotes

– “It ain’t over till it’s over.” – Yogi Berra

– “We the willing, following the unknowing are doing the impossible. We have done so much for so long with so little that we are now able to do anything with nothing” – Unknown

– “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams

– “Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” – Voltaire

– “To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.” – Murphy’s Laws

– “If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.” – Murphy’s Laws

– “If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number.” – Murphy’s Laws

– “When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!” – Murphy’s Laws

– “This is like deja vu all over again.” – Yogi Berra

– “Nothing is as easy as it looks.” – Murphy’s First Law

– “Everything takes longer than you think.” – Murphy’s Second Law

– “In any field of endeavor, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” – Murphy’s Third Law

– “If there is a possibility that several things can go wrong, then the one that will cause the greatest damage will be the one to go wrong.” – Murphy’s Fourth Law

– “If anything absolutely can NOT go wrong, it will anyway.” – Murphy’s Fifth Law

– “If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.” – Murphy’s Sixth Law

– “Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.” – Murphy’s Seventh Law

– “If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.” – Murphy’s Eighth Law

– “Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.” – Murphy’s Ninth Law

– “Mother Nature is a “son-of-a-gun.”” – Murphy’s Tenth Law

– “It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so very ingenious.” – Murphy’s Eleventh Law

– “Things get worse under pressure.” – Murphy’s Twelfth Law

Cute Love Quotes #2

Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without. – James C. Dobson

There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau

It’s so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. – Anonymous

I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow. – Edmond Rostand

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice. – Charles Baudelaire

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones

Love is being stupid together. – Paul Valery

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom. – Anonymous

The love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay.
Love isn’t love till you give it away. – Reba McEntire

Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count. – Michele St. Amand

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. – H. L. Mencken

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. – Victor Hugo

Love is a game that two can play and both win. – Eva Gabor

When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love. – Robert Fulghum

5 Funny Quotes for Today

1. “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx

2. “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” – Abraham Lincoln

3. “Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical” – Yogi Berra

4. “I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up” – Barbara Bush

5. “Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.” – Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC

Cute Love Quotes

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. – Roy Croft

The best thing about me is you. – Shannon Crown

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn’t, then it was never meant to be. – Anonymous

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. – Anonymous

If I hadn’t met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will. – Anonymous

Guys are like stars, there are millions of them, but only one to make your dreams come true. – Anonymous

God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls can flirt. – Anonymous

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That’s a basic spelling that every woman ought to know. – Jeanne Bourgeois

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful. – Bess Myerson

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. – Woodrow Wyatt

Dizzy Gillespie Quotes

Let’s celebrate Dizzy Gillespie‘s birthday with some great quotes.

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don’t you ask him? And besides, maybe we’d all like to be like Miles, and just haven’t got the guts.

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we’re here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.

I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It’s time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It’s time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.

I’d like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.

They’re not particular about whether you’re playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.