make a list of quotes

I have a Microsoft Word file with over 300 quotes. Some are deep, some are funny, some are inspirational, all of them make me smile.

For the most part, this 43T list was limited to these subjects.

45. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

44. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

43. For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

42. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

41. If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
Oscar Wilde

40. I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon, I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde

39. I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain

38. Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Tennyson

37. You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London

36. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

35. Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
Edward Howe

34. How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?
Charles De Gaulle

33. The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away
if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck

32. Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens, we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide

31. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

30. Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.
Mary Oliver

29. I have asked too much, I plainly see.
Ovid

28. Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

27. You can be young only once. But you can always be immature.
Dave Barry

26. The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

24. I doubt that the imagination can be surpressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. LeGuin

23. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde

22. A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

21. No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francis Mocuriac

20. I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin

19. Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
Phillip K. Dick

18. When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips

17. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley

16. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Fr. Jerome Cummings

15. Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Mark Overby

14. Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte

13. An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Cooley

12. I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day

11. I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

10. It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

9. We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift

8. One’s real life is often the life one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde

7. I love them that love me, and they that in the morning early search for me shall find me.
Proverbs 8:17

6. When you love someone, all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen

5. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

4. The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference.
Elie Wiesel

3. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together, and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
Amy Bloom

2. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
D.H. Lawrence

1. Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker

to research next week. Maybe half the quotes will be those that have stuck with me over the last thirty years. I like this sort of thing because you can’t help but reveal a little about yourself by the quotes you choose.