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boy: a noise with dirt on it.

~ NOT YOUR AVERAGE DICTIONARY

A boy is truth with dirt on its face
beauty with a cut on its finger
and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

~ UNKNOWN

A boy's will is the wind's will. And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

~ LONGFELLOW
American educator and poet, who's work includes "Paul Revere's Ride"

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

~ OGDEN NASH

A garden is a lovesome thing.

~ T E. BROWN
Thomas Edward Brown is the national poet of the Isle of Man, an island in the Irish Sea.

A journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step.

~ CHINESE PROVERB

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

~ JOHN BARRYMORE
John Sidney Blyth Barrymore (February 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942), was an American actor, frequently called the greatest of his generation. He first gained fame as a stage actor, lauded for his portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III.

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.

~ JAMES DENT

A possibility was born the day you were born and it will live as long as you live.

~ SAMUEL LOVER
Irish Author

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

~ AMELIA EARHART
The world's most famous female aviator disappeared in 1937, as she attempted to become the first woman to fly around the world. With her navigator, Fred Noonan, her Lockheed Electra was last heard from about 100 miles from the tiny Pacific atoll, Howland Island on July 2, 1937. President Roosevelt authorized an immediate search; no trace was ever found.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

~ BILLIE BURKE
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke (August 7, 1884 – May 14, 1970) was an Oscar-nominated American actress primarily known to modern audiences for her role as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

~ EUGENE F. WARE
Author and soldier

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.

~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON
American essayist and poet

All meaning is self-created.

~ VIRGINIA SATIR
Noted Psychotherapist

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

~ WALT DISNEY
Academy Award winning American flim producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, philantropist and co-founder of Walt Disney Company, well known for the cartoon character Mickey Mouse

All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

~ J. R.R. TOLKIEN
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

~ HAVELOCK ELLIS
British sexologist

All you earnest young men out to save the world... please, have a LAUGH.

~ REINHOLD NIEBUHR

And in the end,
it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years.

~ ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Sixteenth president of the United States

And that laugh that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.

~ DOROTHY FIELDS
American librettist and lyricist. She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley female songwriters.

Baby, it's cold outside.

~ FRANK LOESSER
American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the latter.

Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.

~ JAMES LEO HERLIHY
American novelist, playwright and actor

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

~ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
One of the founding fathers of the United States, a noted polymath, author, painter,satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman and diplomat. He was busy!

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

~ ELLA WILLIAMS
Writer

Build a ladder to the stars and climb up every rung and may you stay forever young.

~ JOAN BAEZ
Mexican-American folk singer and songwriter

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

~ AMANDA BRADLEY
Poet and essayist living in Brooklyn. She recently completed her Ph.D. in English and American Literature, specializing in twentieth century poetry. She teaches composition and rhetoric and tutors in the writing center at Yeshiva University in Washington Heights.

Chance is the first step you take, Luck is what comes afterward.

~ AMY TAN
Best selling novelist

Circumstances alter faces.

~ CAROLYN WELLS
English Humorist, Writer and Author

Close by the jolly fire I sit, to warm my frozen bones a bit.

~ ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer

Delicious autumn!

~ GEORGE ELIOT

Do your part to make this world a cuter place to live in.

~ SUSAN BRANCH
Author

Don't Bunt.
Aim out of the ball park.

~ DAVID OGILVY
Notable advertising executive, known as "The Father of Advertising"

Don't compromise yourself, you're all you've got.

~ JANIS JOPLIN
American singer, songwriter, music arranger. Rose to prominence in the late 1960's.

Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.

~ UNKNOWN

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

~ JULIA WARD HOWE

Dreams are necessary to life.

~ ANAIS NIN

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

~ RUTH ANN SCHABACKER
Author

Earth laughs in flowers.

~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON
American essayist and poet

Enjoy freely a vast horizon.

~ KRISHNA
Deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism in a variety of different perspectives.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

~ MARILYNNE ROBINSON
American author. Her 1980 novel Housekeeping (see 1980 in literature) won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

~ OSCAR WILDE
Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

~ JAPANESE PROVERB

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

~ MARK TWAIN
Author of classic American novels

Find ecstasy in life--the mere sense of living is joy enough.

~ EMILY DICKINSON
American poet

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON
American essayist and poet

First you are young;
then you are middle-aged;
then you are old;
then you are wonderful.

~ LADY DIANA COOPER
Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Cooper, Viscountess Norwich (August 29, 1892 – June 16, 1986) was a British socialite and actress who was best known as Lady Diana Cooper.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed,
...for those who don't, none will do.

~ JERRY LEWIS

Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.

~ DOROTHY GALYEAN

Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.

~ DOROTHY GALYEAN

Fortune favors the bold.

~ TERENCE

Getting there isn't half the fun, it's all the fun.

~ ROBERT TOWNSEND
Director and Actor

Give me a place to stand and I can move the world.

~ Archimedes
Greatest mathematician of his time

Give of your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

~ MOTHER TERESA
Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

~ HENRY DAVID THOREAU
American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, developement critic, surveryor, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist. Best known for the novel WALDEN and his essay CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE.

Good clothes open all doors.

~ THOMAS FULLER
Canadian architect

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

~ INGRID BERGMAN
Swedish three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress. She also won the Tony Award for Best Actress in the first Tony Award ceremony in 1947.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

~ GARTH BROOKS
American country music artist

Happiness walks on busy feet.

~ KITTI TURMELL

Happiness walks on busy feet.

~ KITTI TURMELL

heal the past, live the present dream the future.

~ MARY ENGELBREIT
Mary Engelbreit is a graphic artist and children's book illustrator who launched her own magazine, Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion in 1996.

His laughter...
sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.

~ JOSEPH LELYVELD

Hitch your wagon to a star.

~ RALPH WALDO EMERSON
American essayist and poet

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

~ EMILY DICKINSON
American poet

How beautiful it is to be alive!

~ HENRY SEPTIMUS SUTTON
Politician

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

~ UNKNOWN

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young -- or slender.

~ WILLIAM JAMES
Pioneering American psychologist and philosopher, trained as a medical doctor

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.

~ PEGGY NOONAN
Is an author of seven books on politics, religion and culture, a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and was a primary speech writer and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan.

I am here to live out loud.

~ EMILE ZOLA
French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism, an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.

I am just too much.

~ BETTY DAVIS
Actress

I am not afraid...
I was born to do this.

~ JOAN of ARC
National heroine of France and Catholic Saint

I am what i am.

~ ROSARIO MORALES

I can sometimes resist temptation,
but never mischief.

~ JOYCE REBETA-BURDITT
Producer, Writer

I can't deal with cleaning up. Let's sell the house.

~ MARILYN LOVELL
APOLLO 13

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

~ GEORGE WASHINGTON
George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) led the Continental Army to victory over the Kingdom of Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and served as the first President of the United States of America (1789–1797).

I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.

~ ISABELLA BIRD

I have only to take down this or that to flood my soul with memories.

~ DOROTHIE DELVZY

I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild;
when it is quiet and serene;
when it is dark and moody.
And in all its moods, I see myself.

~ MARTIN BUXBAUM
Martin David Buxbaum was best known for being the editor of Marriott's monthly publication "Table Talk." After retiring from Mariott he wrote 11 books and was a well known photographer, artist and humorist.

I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream.

~ VINCENT VAN GOGH
Dutch Post-impressionist Artist, with over 900 paintings and 1100 drawings done in a 10 year period.

I know of no more encouraging fact
than the unquestionable ability of man
to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination...that [LIFE] is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

~ ANNA QUINDLEN
Columnist for the New York Times

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.

~ HARRIETT BEECHER STOWE
Author

I look back on my life like a good day's work. It was done and I am satisfied with it.

~ GRANDMA MOSES
American folk artist who lived 101 years

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

~ DOUGLAS ADAMS
English author, dramatist and musician

I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin.

~ BEVERLY SILLS
American operatic soprano who enjoyed success in the 1960s and 1970s.

I said in my heart, "I am sick of four walls and a ceiling. I have need of the sky. I have business with the grass."

~ RICHARD HOVEY
American poet

I still live in and on the sunshine of my childhood.

~ METHOD OF NATURE

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

~ ZSA ZSA GABOR
Zsa Zsa Gabor born February 6, 1917 is a Hungarian-born American actress and socialite.

I want to be a shooting star! I want to leave a trail of light so bright
that even after people shut their eyes it still burns.

~ STEVE MARTIN

I want to be strong, I want to laugh along, I want to belong to the living.

~ JONI MITCHELL

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

~ ASHLEY MONTAGU
Montague Francis Ashley Montagu (born Israel Ehrenberg on June 28, 1905, East London, England - died November 26, 1999, Princeton, New Jersey), was a British-American anthropologist and humanist who popularized issues such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.

I was born to be a remarkable woman;
it matters little in what way or how...
I shall be famous or I will die.

~ MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

~ AMELIA E. BARR
British American novelist.

I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am. And dance whenever I want to.

~ BEVERLY WILLIAMS
Min. Beverly Williams serves the ministry as the Administrative Assistant to the Pastor.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide.

~ EMILY BRONTE
British novelist and poet, know for WUTHERING HEIGHTS

I'm trying to arrange my life so that I don't even have to be present.

~ UNKNOWN

If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

~ JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU
Legendary underwater explorer and filmmaker

If all the griefs I am to have would only come today, I am so happy I believe they'd laugh and run away.

~ EMILY DICKINSON
American poet

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

~ E. JEAN CARROLL
American journalist and advice columnist

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

~ DOUG LARSON

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