funny quotes about myself

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. ~William Shakespeare



There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother. ~Astrid Alauda



Owning your burdens is half the battle. ~From the television show Scrubs



Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz. ~Ronald Spark



To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color. ~Toller Cranston



Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford



The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler



To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. ~William Shakespeare



A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables



The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him. ~Leo J. Burke



A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills." ~Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin



A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs



Obesity is really widespread. ~Joseph O. Kern II



We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. ~Jeremy Rifkin, World Press Review, 30 December 1989



Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes. ~Eric Gurney



For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990



In time of test, family is best. ~Burmese Proverb



There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. ~Patrick F. McManus, Never Sniff a Gift Fish, 1979



My heart is glass, daily shattered. ~Jaesse Tyler