You have only one life, make the most of it

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
 I have good intentions, but when a match strikes, fire follows.

Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

I don't pull out because... it's not my problem.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move