inspirational quotes and pics

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ~Eudora Welty


You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb


A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card. ~Edgar A. Shoaff


Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. ~Glen Beaman


Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. ~Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875


One man's constant is another man's variable. ~Alan J. Perlis


One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. ~Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954


Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird. ~Jules Renard


Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ~H.L. Mencken


Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. ~Matthew 12:12


Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. ~David Frost


Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley


Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. ~Martin Amis, Money


A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ~Henry Louis Mencken


Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton


I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see! ~Dave Beard


As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958


Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. ~Napoleon


Useful and ornamental needlework, knitting, and netting are capable of being made, not only sources of personal gratification, but of high moral benefit, and the means of developing in surpassing loveliness and grace, some of the highest and noblest feelings of the soul. ~Author unknown, from The Ladies' Work Table Book, 1845


True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal