lil wayne quotes on life and love

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike



Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness. ~Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America, 1988



Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



When safety is a factor, call in a contractor. ~Author Unknown



Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. ~Albert Ellis



Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false. ~Geoffrey Barraclough, History in a Changing World



The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid. ~Don Drysdale, quoted in New York Times, 9 July 1979



The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible. ~H.L. Mencken



Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. ~Arthur Young, Travels in France, 1792



The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ~Ronald Firbank The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ~Ronald Firbank



It is a mistake to suppose that people succeed through success; they often succeed through failures. ~Author Unknown



What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. ~Author Unknown



And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? ~Bill Bryson



Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van Beethoven



Long A: No, but here is where I am and am not:



The Internet is a shallow and unreliable electronic repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumors, bad spelling and worse grammar, inhabited largely by people with no demonstrable social skills. ~Author Unknown