Famous Sayings

“I don’t have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who’d be mad at me for saying that.”
~Mitch Hedberg

“I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb ..and I’m also not blonde.”
~Dolly Parton

“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes”
~ Stephen Wright

“A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car.”
~Carrie Snow

“Relationships are hard. It’s like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two week’s notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have”
~Bob Ettinger

“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.”
~Ben Kingsley

“Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.”
~Maryon Pearson

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
~Unknown

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired”
~Robert Frost

“Where’s the line between professional girlfriend, and just plain professional?”
~ Sarah Jessica Parker- Sex and the City

Love Quotes

“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ”
~ by Elizabeth Bowen

“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
~William Shakespeare is trying to say never to try to change your lover.

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
~ Robert Frost

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.”
~Robert Browning

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
~Voltaire

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
~Christopher Marlowe

“In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.”
~Margaret Anderson

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
~Aristotle

“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”
~Benjamin Franklin

“The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.
~Josiah G. Holland

“My heart is ever at your service.”
~William Shakespeare

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Here are some Funny Love Quotes and some Alfred Tennyson’s Love quotes

Here are some of my favorite Goodbye sayings,

“Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. ‘
~William Shakespeare

“Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
~Richard Bach

“Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than remember me and cry.”
~Unknown

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
~ Dr. Seuss

” Saying good-bye isn’t the hard part, it’s what we have to leave behind that’s hard.”
Unknown

Here is a goodbye poem.

Where’er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
~Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

Another Goodbye Poem

She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be.
~Francis Thompson

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.”
~Ivy Baker Priest

‘True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.”
~Unknown

“In the hope to meet shortly again, and make our absence sweet.”
~Ben Jonson

“To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.”
~George Lansdowne

“But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.”
~Edward Young

“The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.”
~Alan Alda

“Where is the good in goodbye?”
~Meredith Willson,

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

“Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been -
A sound which makes us linger; - yet - farewell!”
~Lord Byron

Please add your own goodbye quotes and sayings below

“Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.”
~ Euripides

“Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn’t.”
~ Rufus Wainwright

“There is no sin worse in life than being boring - and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.”
~Paris Hilton

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“The Jews have produced only three originative geniuses: Christ, Spinoza and myself.”
Gertrude Stein

“Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.”
~ Bion of Smyrna

“This is an impressive crowd: the Have’s and Have-more’s. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.”
~ George W. Bush

“All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
~Theodore Bikel

“When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then given views to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.”
~ David Hume

“Never look down on anyone unless you’re helping him up.”
~Jesse Jackson

“I’m so good even I don’t believe it.”
~William Shatner

“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”
~Stephen Jay Gould

“Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.”
~Marya Mannes

Here is a collection of retirement sayings and quotes.

“A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job.”
~Ella Harris

“Retire from work, but not from life.”
~M.K. Soni

“I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.”
~Gene Perret

“I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.”
~Danny McGoorty

“In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.”
~Anonymous

“Retired is being twice tired, I’ve thought: First tired of working, Then tired of not.”
~Richard Armour

Funny Retirement quote,

“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”
~George F. Burns

“Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it”
~Charles de Saint-Evremond

“When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.”
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez

“Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.”
~Gene Perret

“Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.”
~Seneca

And here is a sweet Retirement Poem

An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
— James Thomson, 1700-1748, Spring

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

“There is a good reason they call these ceremonies “commencement exercises.” Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.” ~Orrin Hatch

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~Nelson Mandela on education, a great advice for graduates.

“Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.” ~Arie Pencovici

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

Here is a famous graduation saying, “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” ~Aristotle

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~A nice graduation saying from Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.” ~W.H. Auden

“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

“Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.”~Richard Whately

“I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.” ~Lee Iacocca

“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.” ~ William Shakespeare

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”~ Thomas Jefferson quotes

“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.” ~John Ruskin

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln

“Don’t measure your neighbor’s honesty by your own.”~ American Proverb

“Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up. ”

“I don’t mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.” ~Samuel Butler,

“People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.” ~Richard J. Needham

Happy Holidays Everyone!

And wishing a Very Merry Christmas!

“May the peace and joy of the holiday season be with you throughout the coming year.”

And before you go off, remember this:

“Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. ”

“May the Joy and Peace of Christmas be with you now and throughout the new year.”

“No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.”

“If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.”

“Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas everyday ”

“I have had a holiday, and I’d like to take it up professionally.”

Happy Holidays My dears Friends…

“Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live.”

“Loving you is like breathing. how can I stop?”

“You haven’t lost your smile at all, it’s right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.”

“To the world, you may be one person; but to one person, you may be the world!”

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship”

“If love isn’t a game, then why are there so many players ?”

“It’s been said that you only truly fall in love once, but I don’t believe it. Every time I see you, I fall in love all over again”

“Insanity is hereditary you get it from your kids.”

“Count your age with friends but not with years.”

“If you were a new hamburger at McDonald’s, you would be McGorgeous.”

“Everyone has a photographic memory, some don’t have films”

“Seen it all, Done it all, Can’t remember most of it”

“Count your age with friends but not with years.”

“Can’t find a reason why God gave you to me. But that’s not a question to be asked. May be question is how did God knew that I needed someone like you”

“I don’t believe in love because I still don’t have you”

“Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.”

“It’s your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.”

“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.”

“A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
~Bob Dylan

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

“Success: willing to do what the average person is not willing to do.”

And my favorite success quote, “If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.”

“Actually, I’m an overnight success. But it took twenty years. ”

“Be self-reliant and your success is assured.”
~Anonymous

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
~Christopher Lasch

“Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.”

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
~ Mark Victor Hansen

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
~Albert Einstein

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. ”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
~Henry David Thoreau

“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.”
~Woody Allen

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
~Vince Lombardi

“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”
~ Arnold H. Glasgow

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”

“Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value.”

“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.”

“Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.”
~Dell Crossword

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

“If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.”

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
~Earl Nightingale

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
~Henry W. Longfellow