Favorite Quotations ~  Why Life, Paint, Passion

"Why not?" ~ Alex Tan

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ~ Lewis Carroll

Why should people like you? They will like you if you like them and develop qualities of warmth that attract others. ~ Dorothy Carnegie

Why put it on if you're not going to strut? ~ Christine Baranski

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! ~ Jane Austen

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? ~ Frank Scully

Why look worse when you can look better? ~ Elizabeth Hurley

Why let one high C ruin your whole evening? ~ Beverly Sills

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can ’t enjoy them, but can only wait breathless in dread of their going? ~ Ann Morrow Lindbergh

Why is it better to love than be loved? It is surer. ~ Sacha Guitry

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the only one who asked why. ~ Bernard Baruch

"Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life. ~ Mason Cooley

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. ~ Frank A. Clark

Why do we remember the past, but not the future? ~ Stephen Hawking

Why be so simple when complexity is so beautiful? ~ German Maxim

Why we are here is an impenetrable question. ~ Edward Albee

Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there. ~ Thomas Berger

Life’s two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask. ~ Gordon Livingston