Charlie Chaplin Quotes

#1
“Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”

#2
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

#3
“We think too much and feel too little.”

#4
“Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”

#5
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

#6
“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”

#7
“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”

#8
“Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.”

#9
“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”

#10
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.”

Thanks Giving Quotes

#1
If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.
- Frank A. Clark

#2
None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

#3
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

#4
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
- Estonian Poverb

#5
God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
- Ethel Watts Mumford

#6
The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
- H. U. Westermayer

#7
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

#8
Do not get tired of doing what is good. Don't get discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time.
- Galatians 6:9

#9
It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.
- Thomas Aquinas

#10
We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
- Albert Barnes

Missing You quotes

#1

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

#2

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
Kay Knudsen

#3

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
Hans Nouwens

#4

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
Claudia Ghandi

#5

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
Eskimo Proverb

#6
I miss you like the sun misses the flowers, like the sun misses the flowers in the depths of winter, instead of beauty to direct it's light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world which your absence has banished me to.
William Thatcher
Spoken by Heath Ledger in movie, A Knight's Tale.

#7

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
Kay Knudsen

#8

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper

#9

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
John Dryden

#10

What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
Frances Anne Kemble

Harry potter quotes

#1

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.  ~J.K. Rowling, "The Man with Two Faces," Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

#2
As much money and life as you could want!  The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.  ~J.K. Rowling, "The Man with Two Faces," Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

#3
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.  ~J.K. Rowling, "Dobby's Reward," Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Arthur Weasley

#4
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.  ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1999, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

#5
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.  ~Steven Kloves (screenplay), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

#6
In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.  ~Steven Kloves (screenplay), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

#7
It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.  ~J.K. Rowling, "The Hungarian Horntail," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000

#8
I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?  ~J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody

#9
Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.  ~J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody

#10
I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.... At these times... I use the Pensieve.  One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure.  ~J.K. Rowling, "The Pensieve," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore

Funny Sexy Quotes

• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL. (Lynn Lavner)
• It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be. (Brigitte Bardot)
• Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. (Woody Allen)
• I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women. (Anonymous)
• Behind every great woman, is a guy looking at her ass. (Anonymous)
• Kids in back seats cause accidents, accidents in back seats cause kids. (Anonymous)
• Smile... it's the second best thing to do with your lips. (Anonymous)
• If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? (Bette Midler)
• I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. (George Burns)
• Life is a sexually transmitted disease. (R. D. Laing)
• But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already. (Waiter Rant)
• Don't do it behind the garden gate. Love is blind but the neighbors ain't! (Anonymous)
• My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects. (Anonymous)
• I know nothing about sex because I was always married. (Zsa Zsa Gabor)
• Women might be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake a whole relationship. (Sharon Stone)
• When the lights are out, all women are beautiful. (Anonymous)
• Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant. (Henry Miller)
• Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got. (Sophia Loren)
• Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part. (Aimee Mullins)
• All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough. (Angelina Jolie)
• Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. (Billy Crystal)
• I know love and lust don't always keep the same company. (Stephenie Meyer)
• Any piece of clothing can be sexy, with a quietly passionate woman inside it. (Anonymous)
• In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. (Marlene Dietrich)
• Chastity is curable, if detected early. (Woody Allen)
• A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy. (Cindy Margolis)

Inspirational Love Quotes

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa


A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one’s work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart – Albert Camus

More than kisses, letters mingle souls – John Donne

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends – Albert Einstein

Love reciprocated is always rejuvenating – T.S. Eliot

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way – Marlin Finch Lupus

…walk through life in dreams
Out of love of the hand that leads us.
– Antonio Machado

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.– Dr. Karl Menninger

Together we stood without words
And love, like the heavy fragrance
Of the flowering thorn tree, pierced us – Gabriella Mistral

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion - Octavio Paz

I am a crystal goblet in my Love’s hand. Look into my eyes if you don’t believe me – Jalal Al-Din Rumi

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves – Latin proverb

Hope Quotes

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." ~Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Hope never abandons you -- you abandon it." ~George Weinberg

"We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." ~Barack Obama

"Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops -- at all." ~Emily Dickinson

"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free." ~Pearl Buck


"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." ~Dale Carnegie

"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." ~George Iles

"I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings." ~Elie Wiesel

"Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope." ~Unknown

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence." ~Lin Yutang

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." ~Winston Churchill

"Once you choose to hope, anything's possible." ~Christopher Reeve

"If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so." ~Eric Bentley
"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope." ~Henry J. M. Nouwen

Boss's Day Quotes

“In many businesses, today will end at five o’clock. Those bent on success, however, make today last from yesterday right through to tomorrow.” ~Lawrence H. Martin

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” ~Elbert Hubbard

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” ~Robert Frost

“The person who knows ‘How’ will always have a job. The person who knows ‘Why’ will always be his boss.” ~Diane Ravitch

“Executive: A man who talks to visitors so the other employees can get their work done.” ~Cedric Adams


“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” ~Sam Walton

“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.” ~Arthur Brisbane

“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.” ~Thomas J. Watson

“There’s plenty of room at the top, but there’s no room to sit down.” ~Helen Downey

“The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting.” ~Christopher Morley

“Lack of money is the root of all evil.” ~George Bernard Shaw

“The mark of a true executive is usually illegible.” ~Leo J. Farrell, Jr.

Patriotic Quotes and Sayings

“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” ~General Douglas MacArthur

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” ~Thomas Jefferson

“To be vanquished and yet not surrender, that is victory.” ~Joseph Pilsudski

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” ~Thomas Jefferson

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” ~Abraham Lincoln

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.” ~Adlai Stevenson

“War does not determine who is right—only who is left.” ~Anonymous

“Only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet.” ~Margaret Mead

“I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.” ~John Adams

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.” ~Abraham Lincoln

Funny Graduation Quotes

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.- Mark Twain

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it;
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
- W.H. Auden

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car.
But if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
- Theodore Roosevelt


If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
- Robert Goheen


Graduation day is tough for adults.
They go to the ceremony as parents.
They come home as contemporaries.
After twenty-two years of child-raising,
they are unemployed.
- Erma Bombeck

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
- Garry Trudeau

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
- Robert Orben

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
- Frank A. Clark

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B.F. Skinner

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.
- Isabel Waxman

...Yes, the lectures are optional. Graduation is also optional.
- Bob Bickford

Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
- Gary Bolding

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.
- Jeff Foxworthy

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde

Education is a progressive discovery of your own ignorance.
- Will Durant

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
- Doug Larson

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another, with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
- Paul Freund

To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the 'C' students, I say you too may one day be President of the United States.
- George W. Bush

Birthday quotes for Grandma

#1

"Grandma, Because Of You, I Have Memories To Last A Lifetime"
~Author Unknown

#2

"My grandmother told me to be nice to everyone and always think about how you would feel if you were in their shoes. It's really good advice." ~Author ~Unknown

#3

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.
~Gene Perret

#4
"When a child is born, so are grandmothers."
~Judith Levy

#5
"Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me."
~ Lord Chesterfield

#6

"Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother."
~Edward H. Dreschnack

#7
"My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle."
~Henry Youngman



#8

A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.
~Charles and Ann Morse

#9

"When I'd do something bad, my conscience would say, 'What would Grandma think?' ... She taught me the good side, to act right, be polite."
~ Victor Thompson


#10

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.
~Rudolph Giuliani

Birthday quotes for husbands

#1

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
- John Adams

#2

There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus

#3

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- A. W. Pinero

#4

To change and to change for the better are two different things.
- German proverb

#5

To me old age is 15 years older than I am.
- Bernard M. Baruch

#6

Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely.
- Unknown Author

#7

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ronald E. Osborn





#8

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
- Bernard Shaw

#9

View life as a continuous learning experience.
- Denis Waitley

#10

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw

Birthday Quotes for Wife

#1
How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and
height my soul can reach.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#2
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
~Robert Browning (1812-1889)
#3
The things we feel the deepest
Are the hardest things to say
But dear wife you must know
How much I love you anyway
And now that it's your XXth
I'm hoping you'll know too
How much I'm wishing happiness
With all my heart for you.
#4
I Love You
Today and everyday
My darling Wife
#5
I love being loved by you
#7
I draw a circle, not a heart, around you
My wife, the one I love
Because a heart can break
But a circle goes on for ever.


#8
“Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea!’ And if you were my wife, I would drink it!”
~Winston Churchill

#9

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

#10
“Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, the the other, to let her have it.”
~Lyndon B. Johnson:

#10
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
~Mignon McLaughlin