quotes about yourself

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ~Eugene V. Debs



Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ~Kin Hubbard



A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb



Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow



Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel darkness. ~J. Parker



Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. ~Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations



It doesn't make much difference what you study, as long as you don't like it. ~Finley Peter Dunne



Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey



Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox



Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money. ~Author Unknown



The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~Charles DuBois



A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. ~Author unknown, but probably a secretary!



For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



Poker is to cards and games what jazz is to music. It's this great American thing, born and bred here. We dig it because everybody can play. ~Steve Lipscomb



We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss. ~Charles de Lint



The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. ~Winston Churchill



Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, "Let no more riches enter!" ~Aeschylus



Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966