real quotes about fake people

If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? ~Don Meredith


Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter


Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Live simply that others might simply live. ~Elizabeth Ann Seton


One hates an author that's all author. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Beppo"


We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~Kenneth Clark


Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo Basho Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. ~Elbert Hubbard


I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. ~Oscar Wilde


If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout. ~Martin H. Fischer


Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. ~Lord Reading, on speechmaking


Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ~Max L. Forman


Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. ~Herman Broch


Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write "over" on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: "And so Kathy and I went shopping and we..." That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way. ~Ellen DeGeneres


Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard


Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. ~Abraham Lincoln


I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author Unknown


A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. ~Author Unknown


To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. ~Mark Twain, attributed


History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. ~Elias Canetti, The Human Province


Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore