great quotes

my quotes of the day:
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. -Jane Austen

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. -Jane Austen

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. -J. K. Rowling

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.-Confucius

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.-Thomas A. Edison

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.-Thomas A. Edison

---bob