quotes on yourself

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ~Benjamin Franklin


When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ~Sophocles


By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series. ~Steve Rushin


The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves. ~James A. Garfield


Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer


He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb


Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. ~Author Unknown


Never eat more than you can lift. ~Miss Piggy


I love the body. Flesh is so honest, and organs do not lie. ~Terri Guillemets


If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents. ~Leon Panetta


I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. ~William Makepeace Thackeray


I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath


Some people always sigh in thanking God. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld


The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye


Short A: Don't copy my entire site.


Happiness is an unexpected hug. ~Author Unknown


The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. ~Theodore Rubin


This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. ~Orson Scott Card


Depressed? Of course we're all depressed. We've been so quickly, violently, and irreconcilably plucked from nature, from physical labor, from kinship and village mentality, from every natural and primordial anti-depressant. The further society "progresses," the grander the scale of imbalance. Just as fluoride is put in water to prevent dental caries, we'll soon find government mandating Prozac in our water to prevent mental caries. ~M. Robin D'Antan