Quotables
Collection One

 
 

       "Though today may not fulfil
       All thy hopes, have patience still;
     For perchange tomorrow's sun
              Sees thy happier days began"
By  Paul Gerhardt

"Don't carry a grudge - it's heavy and it doesn't have a handle!"

Behold the turtle.  He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
                                                                                                            --- James B Conant

"I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word only one way."
- Thomas Jefferson


PRESS ON

Nothing In The World Can
Take The Place Of Persistance.

Talent Will Not;
 Nothing Is More Common Than
 Unsuccessful Men With Talent.

Genius Will Not;
 Unrewarded Genius Is Almost
 a Proverb.

Education Alone Will Not;
 The World Is Full Of
 Educated Derelicts.

Persistence And Determination
Alone Are Omnipotent.

"If you don't have time to do it right the first time...
   when are you going to find time to do it again?"

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can
rejoice because thorns have roses."    - Ziggy

"I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy
than be a success at something I hate."   --George Burns

The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it.
If you can't ignore it, top it.
If you can't top it, laugh at it.
If you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.


"Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score."
   --- Marianne Espinosa Murphy


Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.

The best form of spiritual excercise is to touch the floor
><> regularly with your knees. <><

"HOLD FAST YOUR DREAMS

Hold fast your dreams!
Within your heart
Keep one still, secret spot
Where dreams may go,
And, sheltered so,
May thrive and grow
Where doubt and fear are not.
O keep a place apart,
Within your heart,
For little dreams to go!
                        --- Louise Driscoll

 "I know you believe you understand what you think I said,
but I am not sure sure you realize that what you heard was not what I meant."

Some drink at the fountain of knowledge...others just gargle.

"Ever notice that the weaker the argument, the stronger the words?"


"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you
   to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
                                   --F.P. Jones

    Advertising (n): the science of arresting the human
    intelligence for long enough to get money from it.
                                         -- Stephen Leacock

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. -Ron Wild

"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."
-- Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel


"Statistics are often used as a drunk uses a light pole: For support rather than illumination."


If you're not afraid to face the music you may some day lead the band.


Yesterday is a canceled check;
Tomorrow is a promissory note;
Today is the only cash you have.
Spend it wisely.

"I've learned that it is important to
be able to sacrifice, at any moment, what we are
for what we could become."

"A sure sign of class is the ability to keep from telling everything you know."
                                                           ---Ann Landers  5/17/97

"Personally, I don't believe the world owes me a living--although for the
amount I get, an apology would be nice."

"Accept that some days you are the pigeon,  And some days you are the statue."


Give some people an inch and they think they are rulers.


"Debt is only a lifetime. Why worry?"

"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did,
but she did it backwards and in high heels."

"If I am not for myself, who is for me?
But if I am for my own self only, what am I,
and if not now, when?"

"Climb high, Climb far.
Your goal the sky,
Your aim the star!"

"What does today hold?
Today holds the love of God.
Let us all look to the Lord and rejoice in His blessings."

"The greatest oak was once a tiny nut that held its ground."

"One mind awake can awaken another,
The second awake can awaken their next door brother.
Three awake can awaken the town
By turning the whole place upside down.
Many awake can make such a fuss
That they finally awaken the rest of us."

"I sought my soul,
But my soul I could not see.
I sought my God,
But God eluded me.
I sought my brother,
And I found all three."

"Good timber does not grow with ease.
The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees."
  ---sent in by Thel Curtis  


 

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