The only things worth doing
are impossible.
by Lin Stone
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The greatest honor a man can earn on earth *** Humor is Funny Medicine. *** Life has dragged me through a thousand mud holes because I kept hanging onto a bumper sticker. *** Anything we have will always be more important and useful than every thing we haven't. *** Don't pet the sweaty things. *** Happiness is the brightest condition of those who are beautiful. It works the other way too. Be happy if you want to be beautiful. *** The future is uncertain, but you can certainly plan ahead for most of the things that ruin most of the people around you. *** Like it or not, poverty is usually a self-inflicted wound, and most of us are using shot guns to do it. *** I don't like being stupid, but sometimes it is forced upon me. *** Before Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the 1935 series, our one dollar bills were worth real money because they were backed up three ways:
Today our funny looking little one dollar bills are backed up only by accident. *** Until recently our American dollar bills were known as PAPER MONEY. (now they are just known as funny money, and nobody is laughing) *** We have nothing to fear except another Democrat in the White House. *** No road is long when traveled with a friend and a Jeep. *** When I was young I wanted to know I could survive all alone in the wilderness without weapons. Now that I'm old I want to know that I can survive all alone in a hospital without weapons. *** The one thing that makes any job easier is knowing where to start. If you have that gift then you can turn a pitiful handful of midwits (capable of producing only mediocre results) into an army of first class generals that think they are doing it all on their own. *** Sometimes if it wasn't for the magical powers of procrastination I couldn't make it through the whole day without working. *** Trusting in Government progress will not stop a molehill from getting too big to handle. *** The only shortcut to success *** Always Pick Up Your Change
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Optimists that are seldom right about anything *** The mouth of man can acquire a taste for just about anything, but it is hard to compete with the taste of old memories. *** Here is the greatest truth known to man of maintaining solid, financial health: You either set money aside before the lean years come, or you will hock your soul to the devil when they arrive. *** Any time you hear a chortled chuckle and the words, "My doctor won't let me do THAT." you can know of a surety you are listening to a damn fool. ***
If you don't starve yourself to death every once
in a *** I can keep my priorities straight without any problem at all. It's those little, inefficient, non-effective habits that keep me spinning in my tracks. *** There are convicts in prisons that other hands built for them so well they can't get away. Working so hard you forget you have a family is a prison you build for yourself, and after a while you can't get away. If you keep building you will find yourself in spirit prison and there is NO escape from there until the end of eternity. *** The only thing spiritual that was ever settled by debate was "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin." And, I don't remember what number was finally decided on in that debate. *** Hitler stayed in office by killing anyone that said he was wrong. Finally, there was only one bullet left. *** Setting goals is for people who need to be whipped to get enough get up to go. *** I'm probably the only man in America that got traded in for a stray cat. *** Hush you huskies. Hush! *** Okay buddy, you just tell me where I was headed when I interrupted you -- and I'm out of here. ***
When you go home
from a stroke you can expect one of two
reactions from any of your family or friends... ***
The only thing certain *** Just take a little bit to see if you like it a lot. *** When you want to be heard, you have got to speak up. The only way to get a better deal is to ask for it. One gets what one wants based solely on the ability to persuade others, and that takes negotiation, not luck. *** I have endured every temptation on earth except adulation. I have my fingers crossed in hopes that temptation will come next. *** You can't call yourself a real politician until you can charm the skin off a blind rattle snake. ***
Let's face facts here. *** Knowing what you are doing wrong is almost as good as knowing what you should be doing right. *** It isn't until the body realizes it has a brain that it becomes capable of reaching some of its true potentials. *** Travel stories have always been popular because travelers instinctively know that telling the truth does not pay well. *** Of course there are easy answers to every question.
*** I would have been a thousand miles farther on down the road if I had just been smart enough to skip the short cuts some of my so-called friends told me about. *** It is impossible to give a grain of truth to anyone possessing pounds of knowledge. *** The Lord has resisted so many temptations to make me rich that I can only conclude he's doing it on purpose. *** I've known Tale Wins through many years of thick and thin. I've known Tale Wins when he was rich; I've known Tale Wins when he was poor: Rich is better. For use in your speeches, substitute your name for Tale Wins.*** *** You know you have joined the ranks of the world's wealthy when you start throwing food away just because it is rotten. *** The best thing Bill Clinton did for America was prove that the media was not, and is not, public opinion incarnate. In those early days of his run for the Presidency, after the press had built him up as big as they were going to and when they did their best to shove him aside, Bill Clinton smiled indulgently and proved indisputably you could ignore the media and still be elected President. *** There comes a time in every man's life when just being able to soak up some sunlight seems like a major accomplishment. *** The Key to a
Healthy Life is to: *** The only time a man is willing to accept something less is before he gets it. *** Compromise is where *** We can't be brave until we know what we are running away from. *** A wise man never tries to pretend ***
*** One Man With A Tank is a majority. ***
He who hesitates for a minute *** I'm old now, with bones that won't bend and medical needs that won't wait. *** Ten seconds of anger can pack thirty years of sorrow into your life. *** Preparation is the primary principle of Participation. *** There is a time to be big, and a time to belittle. ***
*** Out of the last 1016 times that I had a 50/50 chance of getting it right, I got it wrong 1016 times! Is anyone else keeping score out there? *** When there are only two choices, right or wrong, I usually get it wrong four times in a row, sometimes more. But, if I ever do get it right, you won't shake me off no matter how many other choices you give me. *** That Grandpa of mine was a mean dude. Daddy was only half as bad, and I turned out to be a wimp. How can you possibly think I can believe in the theory of evolution -- where only the fittest survive from each passing generation? ***
I wouldn't let a cat be treated at that hospital, *** As an ally against the sea of bitterness I was swimming through, he was a good millstone to put around my neck. *** I invite you to join me in the next frame. |
