Living Juicy

Enjoy my collection of favorite quotes. Got any quotes you like to share? Leave them in the comments.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
- Samuel Ullman

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!
- Author Unknown

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
- Benjamin Franklin

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security – out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.
- John Steinbeck

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
- Elizabeth Bowen

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless–it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
- C.S. Lewis

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails?
- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
- Niels Bohr

Never judge a book by its movie.
- J. W. Eagan

You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
- Buddha

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
- King George V

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
- Goethe

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
- Cynthia Heimel, Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics in Village Voice

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- Brendan Hills

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S. Truman

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
- Dolly Parton

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by
-Douglas Adams

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham