Frances, I read a saying today that was said to be Italian...."A fish rots from the head down!" I love it!

Oh ladies, what a great thread of incredibly inpiring quotes. Those are wonderful to ponder.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. (Eleanor Roosevelt) Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. (Albert Einstein) Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine. (Magdalena Abakanowicz) There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. (Theodore Rubin)

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. (Dr. David M. Burns)

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ----- Eleanor Roosevelt --------------------------- "You grow up the day you have your first real laugh---at yourself." ----- Ethel Barrymore -------------------------------- "Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine." ----- Ralph Waldo Emerson ---------------------------------- "We make a living by what we get,but we make a life by what we give." ----- Winston Churchill ------------------------------------------ "If you haven't any charity in your heart,you have the worst kind of heart trouble." -----Bob Hope --------------------------------- "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." ----- Oscar Wilde ---------------------------------- "If we'd only stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time." ----- Edith Wharton ------------------------------------------ "Individuality is freedom lived." ----- John Dos Passos

Those are great quotes, Ship. I especially like the Emerson quote.

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." (William Shakespeare)

"Every sinner has a future, every saint has a past." (William Banks in "The Cleaner")

"We make a living by what we get,but we make a life by what we give." ------ Winston Churchill ................................................................ "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ------ Mark Twain .................................................................... "The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time." ------ William Butler Yeats .................................................................... "The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet." ------Bill Cosby

"Fight for what you believe in, but never believe that you are the only one who is right." (Anonymous)

I like all of those ladies, but I especially take the one by Mark Twain to heart. One of my favorite sayings, though I can't say that it is an actual quote, it's more somthing I think when people talk about spending a lot on a wedding and it's kind of in the vein of the Churchill and Twain remarks. I always say that I would not spend much on my wedding as it's not the wedding that matters so much as the marriage. What happens over the ensuing years is much more important than the ceremony of one day.