"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

Helen Keller

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

- TS Eliot

:coffee:

"...the cost of freedom is always high,
Yet one path we shall never choose; that is the path of surrender or submission."

---J F Kennedy

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk: The best of life is but intoxication.

- Lord Byron

"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes Sin's a pleasure."

Lord Byron

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then, brothers, it came. Oh bliss, bliss and heaven. -Anthony Burgess

One of my favorite quotes. Bette Davis upon hearing the news of Joan Crawford's death:

"My mother always said that it was polite to say something good about the dead. Joan Crawford: She's dead. Good."

:D

"I rant, therefore I am."
Dennis Miller

"Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real passionate painter who dares." - Vincent Van Gogh