...and you can quote me on that!

With all the famous people that have marked history with their intellect and wit, we all have found favorites to quote from them. The following are some quotes I've come across in the past and recent present that have made me laugh, love and live. (I've tried to include the source, but some I've just stumbled upon and the source was not listed. If you happen to know it, please let me know so that I can include it here and pass it on.) Enjoy...but more importantly, share YOUR faves!

On LAUGHTER:

• The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. ~ Mark Twain
• Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. ~ W. H. Auden
• Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. ~ Elsa Maxwell

On LOVE:

• Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. ~ Swedish proverb
• This is my wish for you: comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spiritis sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, love to complete your life.
• Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
• More and more I come to value the charity and love on one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization -- is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. ~ Albert Einstein
• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~ Bertrand Russell

On LIFE:

• Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~ Robert Francis Kennedy
• Life is far too important a thing ever to talk about seriously. ~ Oscar Wilde
• We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. ~ Sir Winston Churchill
• Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think. ~ Chinese Proverb
• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ~ George Santayana, "War Shrines," Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, 1922