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1. "Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors played by somebody I do not know." - Keats
2. "The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most." - Ruskin
3. "Lucid intervals and happy pauses." - Bacon
4. "I must dance barefoot on her wedding day." - Shakespeare
5. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." - Thoreau
6. "Pursue essential purposes calmly" - J. Gould
7. You asked for a chocolate chip cookie and I gave you my heart.
8. Truth is not needed, but something is.
9. He was a tidy little fellow and did not dream.
10. This is all very predictable.
11. And then I woke up.
12. Serein: A very fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
13. Malaise
14. I'm beginning to feel susceptible.
15. Thank you!
16. Congratulations!
17. Sustain the fantasy.
18. Happy Birthday!
19. Seek counseling.
20. Tell me something I do not know.
21. "A Christian barmaid." - R. Starbuck
22. Celebrate!
23. Tell me about the sixties.
24. Don't panic!
25. I love you more that Haagen-Dazs.
26. I love you more than chocolate chip cookies.
27. You can always close your eyes.
28. Is it real?
29. Decadence
30. Remember me?
31. I like you more than Haagen-Dazs.
32. I don't know what to say.
33. I remember!
34. "If only people would treat me like a lunatic, it would be such a relief." - Isak Dinesen
35. I like you more than chocolate chip cookies.
36. What then must we do?
37. Linger hopefully.
38. Little girls safe inside some villa jumping rope on a mosaic courtyard.
39. "I don't want realism. I want magic!" - T. Williams
40. "We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams." - O'Shaughnessy
41. "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." - Freud
42. Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns. - Chinese proverb
43. "When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet." - Stanislaw Lec
44. Bon Voyage!
45. We listened to sarcastic music
46. Why?
47. Escape!
48. "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." - F. L. Wright
49. "We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." - Nietzche
50. "The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense, where as reality never makes sense." - Aldous Huxley
51. Happy Wedding! Happy Wedding Day!
52. Happy Anniversary
53. Celebration
54. "The world wants to be deceived."- Sebastian Brant
55. "Once I make up my
mind I'm full of indecision." - Oscar Levant
56. "One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes." - Duc de la Rochefoucauld
57. "Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement and love without penalties." - W. L. George
58. "Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." - Seneca
59. "After the game the king and pawn go in the same box." - Italian proverb
60. "A really busy person never knows how much he weighs." - E. W. Howe
61. Surprise!
62. Stay as you are.
63. "As we grow older we are less and less likely to call others insane." - William Lyon Phelps
64. "Live with no time out." - Simone de Beauvoir
65. ". . . the politer the society the greater the lies it requires." - Lincoln Steffens
66. "I cannot afford to waste my time making money." - Lois Agassiz
67. "Leisure is the
loveliest thing in the world when one doesn't suffer from it." - Edgar
Degas
68. ". . . it is better to
fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville
69. "No one worth possessing can quite be possessed." - Sara Teasdale
70. "Faith is a thing you cannot borrow." - Ford Maddox Ford
71. "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." - Jean Paul Sartre
72. "Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy." - Tolstoy
73. "The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind." - Jean Paul Richter
74. "At every birth a wave passes through the universe." - Talmud
75. Did you think I'd let you stand alone?
76. Escape with me.
77. "Now I know what Love is." - Virgil
78. "Don't call me cute!' - Gary Morgan
79. Anything is possible.
80. Share your light.
81. "Fortune assists the bold." - Virgil
82. its been done before, but you do it so much better.
83. "Go often to the house of your friend, for the weeds soon choke up the unused path." - Scandinavian proverb
84. "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." - lin Yutang
85. I just want to eat and be safe.
86. "i shut me eyes in order to see." - Paul Gauguin
87. "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored." - E. Waugh
88. Show me the magic.
89. This is not a dress rehearsal.
90. "What a wonderful life I've had. I only wish I realized it sooner." - Colette
91. "Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening." - Gertrude Stein
92. "I have lost friends, some by death. . . others through sheer inability to cross the street." - Virginia Woolf
93. "There is no duty we so much under rate as the duty of being happy." - R. L. Stevenson
94. "He who forgives ends the quarrel." -African Proverb
95. "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
96. "He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom." - Schopenhauer
97. "A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets." - E. Hubbard
98. "No man is rich enough to buy back his past." - Wilde
99. "Small rooms discipline the mind; large ones distract it." - Leonardo Da Vinci
100. "When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package." - John Ruskin
101. "Instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little better." - Ed Howe
102. "What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." - Nietzche
103. "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." - Thoreau
104. "Every artist writes his own autobiography." - Havelock Ellis
105. Were you scared? Yes! But it was wonderful.
106. "If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new." - Voltaire
107. Try Softer
108. "Progress always involves risk, you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first." - Frederick Wilcox
109. its never too late to have a happy childhood.
110. Lay back, close your eyes and think of the queen.
111. "It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." - Moliere
112. "What we love we shall grow to resemble." - Bernard of Clairvaux
113. "Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer." - Trollope
114. "The really valuable thing is intuition." - Einstein
115. "All sorrows can be borne if you can tell a story about them" - Isak Dinesen
116. "We're not here to be successful, we're here to be faithful." - Mother Teresa
117. "Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours." - Benjamin Disraeli
118. " I had so much fun I thought I was someone else." - M. Fasulo
119. "An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge." - John Wesley
120. ubi amice, ibi opes: Where there are friends, there is wealth. (Latin)
121. "All obstacles are blessings of the guru." - Nepalese saying
122. Lizards have their own agenda.
123. I am as young as I ever was and as old as I'll ever be.
124. "All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast." - John W. Gardner
125. The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
126. "Live i simply what our feelings do to us." - Balzac
127. If it takes along time to say yes then the answer is probably no.
128. Life is Happily Ever After.
129. "How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward." - Spanish proverb
130. "Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance." - Thoreau
131. "One nice thing about sitting on the floor . . . you can't fall off." - Spike
132. It doesn't matter where we go as long as we see everything.
133. "Lightenupwhileyoustillcan." - Spike
134. "Injustice is relatively east to bear, it is justice that hurts." - Mencken
135. "Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves." - Goethe
136. "Oh what a day-to-day business life is." - Jules la Forgue
137. "He knows the world and does not know himself." - De La Fontaine
138. The last person who made me laugh eventually made me cry.
139. We've got to talk but I don't know what to say.
140. Fantasies are free.
141. My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.
142. Do not tell me what you said, tell me what you meant.
143. The moments slipped by in such a satisfactory manner.
144. "Mirrors should think longer before they reflect." - Cocteau
145. "It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant but not a fly." - Josh Billings
146. "A Full cup must be carried steadily" - English proverb
147. Life is just one damned thing after another." - Elbert Hubbard
148. "A smiling face is half the meal." - Lettish proverb
149. "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." - Mark Twain
150. "Dancing is shouting with your feet." - J. Fasulo
151. "You can't begin to understand the universe unless you look at it once in awhile." - John Dobson
152. "Light tomorrow with today." - E. B. Browning
153. "You never get any fun out of the things you haven't done." - Nash
154. "Good coffee should be hot as hell, strong as death and sweet as love."- Turkish proverb
155. "I never thik of the future - it comes soon enough." - Einstein
156. "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Tolstoy
157. "Imagination is everything." - Jane Austen
158. "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." - Anon.
159. "Laziness grows on people: it begins in cobwebs and ends in chains." - Hale
160. "Time is like the ocean; always there, always different." - Nash
161. "A man's life is dyed the color of his imagination." - Marcus Aurelius
162. "Even though is was sinful it was lovely." - C. P. Taylor
163. "Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself." - Blake
164. and so of course I became the dream.
165. How can this be?
166. "A thought once awakened does not slumber." - Carlyle
167. "I had the answer to everything the other day but I forgot to write it down." - R. L. Mulder
168. "There is no race if the rats refuse to run." - R. Amiton
169. its extremely vulgar. I like it a lot.
170. "there is a miracle in every new beginning." - Hesse
171. "Embrace Chaos" - D. Dracos
172. "Some things have to be put off dozens of times before they slip your mind completely." - Flo Capp
173. "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." -Paul Valery
174. "May the garland of friendship be evergreen." -E. Nesbit
175. "Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it." -Christopher Morley
176. What do you know for sure?
177. "How often is happiness destroyed by preparation..." -Jane Austen
178. The world needs happiness.
179. What do you mean?
180. The final acts frequently take place offstage, away from the view of the audience.
181. Break-a leg!
182. "its only those who do nothing that make no mistakes." - Joseph Conrad
183. "Do, every day, something no one
else would be silly enough to do."- Christopher Morley
184. "I believe in getting into hot water.
I think it keeps you clean."- Chesterton
185. "Love those who love you." - Voltaire
186. "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." -Goethe
187. "What has become of all the shyness in the world?" -Jane Austen.
188. "When nothing is certain anything is possible." -anon.
189. “We find rest in those we love, and we
provide a resting place for those who love us.” -St. Bernard of Clairvaux
190. “We talk too much; we should talk less and draw more.” -Goethe
191. “They are not gone who live in the hearts they left behind.” -Native American Proverb
192. “Don't cry because it's over. Smile
because it happened.” -anon
193. If the wind doesn't blow, row.
194. How bad can anything be if you can glimpse the dunes and smell the salt
air?
195. A dream is a shadow of something real.
196. “So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” -Shakespeare
197. Friends are like angels who lift us off our feet when our wings have
trouble remembering how to fly.
198. “I wondered if any man ever passed a whole day pleasantly. -Boswell
199. Eat bread and speak the truth.
200. Thinking of you
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