quotes about yourself for facebook

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ~Andre Gide, Journals, 1894


A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. ~Ralph Nader


May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it. ~Irish Blessing


Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ~Romans 12:21


Never is a long, long word, but it's less frustrating than "God knows when." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it. ~Abraham Lincoln


In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours. ~John Milton


The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. ~William Westmoreland


You can't take something off the Internet - it's like taking pee out of a pool. ~Author Unknown, 1995


People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ~Ogden Nash


Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities. ~Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica


One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself. ~Betsy Cohen


It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. ~Machiavelli


A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958


It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ~Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951


An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ~Aldous Huxley


Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will


No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one. ~George F. Nordenhold


It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob Bronowski


Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb