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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. - Benjamin Disraeli The older generation is much wiser than the younger generation is wise enough to listen to. ** *** *** An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. ~ Henry Ford A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. - Arnold H. Glasow *** You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than you can by living in New York. William Lyon Phelps ** I'd rather go to jail for spanking my kids than for them to go to jail because I didn't. Gracie Bowlan ** Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. #Nietzsche **
*** Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart ~ C.S Lewis *** A man ought to live near water if he expects his house to catch on fire. ~ Frederick Faust Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Aldous Huxley *** Everybody Does Better when everybody does better, Old Hills Saying *** A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ~Arthur McBride Bloch *** Complaints never cured a wound though they may have washed a few. ~ Frederick Faust Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~ Oprah Winfrey ** Do your roses have thorns, or do your thorns have roses? Jim Hightower *** Complaints never cured a wound though they have a few. ~ Frederick Faust *** God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. Daniel Webster *** It is cheaper to buy milk than it is to keep a cow. Samuel Butler ** Genius is honored, but never encouraged -- Winston Churchill ***
If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. ~ Anon
Ben Franklin is known as a wise old man, and folks that knew him well believed he was a smart man too. He published all these before he was through..
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. -Benjamin Franklin ** A man ought to live near water if he expects his house to catch on fire. Frederick Faust. *** As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they DO." Andrew Carnegie *** The only trouble with the older generation is that they didn't listen to the wisdom of their older generation. ~ Lin Stone *** Women may be the ones going to hell in limousines -- but it's the men who are stepping on the gas. Zane Grey *** If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. ~ Winston. Churchill *** Those who wish to sing, always find a song. -Swedish Proverb *** Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - Marianne Williamson *** I have noticed that when chickens stop quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same way with the human race. ~ Don Marquis *** There is a lot of difference in pioneering for gold and pioneering for spinach. Will Rogers *** Advice is
like castor oil, * New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forest, mountains and deserts of the United States. Simeon Strunsky *** Knowledge, carefully recorded, is knowledge available in times of need. ~ Richard G. Scott ** Whoever said hard work never hurt anyone has never picked cotton. ~ Lin Stone ** I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! ~ Ed Dyson "A couple of months in the lab can often save a couple of hours in the library. ~ Ed Dyson *** Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." — Mark Twain ** Like you, once upon a time I judged people by their appearances. Then one day, I glanced into a mirror and decided to make an exception to that rule. ~ Lin Stone *** If you beat a dead horse long enough you won't have to bury it. ~ Lin Stone I am NOT devious! You just get confused every time you try to read my mind. ~ Lin Stone *** No life is of much value and every death is but a little loss. Clarence Darrow. *** Energy and Persistance Conquer All Things
Benjamin Franklin ** All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism. ~ anon * Spare moments are the gold dust of time. Bishop Hail ** Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. Lord Chesterfield ** Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself: Leo Tolstoy ** Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable to him than a diamond -- Cervantes ** You cannot make a revolution without honest men, but they are soon disposed of. ~ Agatha Christie ** Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. ~ Ed Dyson It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert ** A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." — William Shakespeare (As You Like It) *** They know enough who know how to learn." Henry Adams ** I won’t belabor a point so obvious it hurts to stare at it. **
The foolish think that
nothing is well done, except that which they
do themselves. anon Never tell a lawyer anything until it is too late. Vivien Kellems *** It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. ~ Baltasar Gracian *** When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. Otto von Bismarck *** Loyalty always comes with a price tag. Lin Stone **
The best thing one can do when it's
raining is *** "If you want the rainbow, you must put up with the rain." D. Parton *** Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. Paul Boese *** If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. Loren Eiseley *** The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker *** A long memory isn't half as useful as a long purse Agatha Christie *** A Man Sees in the world what he carries in His Heart. Goethe ** Change just happens. Change for the better is a full-time job. Adlai E. Stevenson ** Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. Adlai E. Stevenson ** Without music, life would be an error.” - Nietzsche *** Only the best Rewriters know when to take the polish off of the shoes and put it into the sausage. ~ Lin Stone ** A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." ~ Max Lucado ** The palest ink is better than the best memory ** Patience and fortitude conquer all things. - Emerson ** What we should have done is no where near as important as what we do right now. ~ Tina Johnson ** Finding out you have a problem is like finding half the solution. ~ Lin Stone ** Take risks with caution. ~ Dick Francis *** Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ** Once it's too hot; it's too late. ~ Prestone ** A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. ~ Andrew Carnegie |
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Missy LaneousMy country, 'tis of thee, *** No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw *** A Myth is as good as a Mile. John Archer *** We cannot have peace on earth by learning how to live with Satan. We must exercise the courage to refrain. ** No matter how weak we may be, when we trust in the Lord we shall be strong. ** When the blood of a living soul becomes contaminated that soul must suffer, and even perish. The whole body suffers. When a body dies the blood is the first substance to stagnate and corrupt. In a matter of minutes it begins to coagulate and to stink so much it will draw flies from 10 miles away. ** When you take the time judge people you don't have enough time left to love them. ** All of us came to earth with a contribution to make. ** If the Lord knows what I need then I must not need anything. ** It is by immersion that we climb the mountains. ** The things we choose to do today will open the doors of hereafter. ** Jesus was born so we could be reborn. ** The gospel is deeper than a bumper sticker on a Cadillac going like about out of hell. ** Hallowed Be Thy Name is a prayer. It is a prayer that the name of God shall be revered by all men on earth. It is a prayer that men cease to profane his name and clean up their thoughts, speech and actions. ** Have you seen the hand of the Lord in any of your doings today? ** Read your Bible between the lines. ** A cry has gone up around the world, wondering bitterly why God is not speaking to us today. That isn't the problem. God is speaking to us today. We aren't listening; THAT is the problem. We are too busy, too sleepy, too much pain, too little preparation, too little prayer, too smart, too frustrated, too pretty, too ugly, too many excuses. ** Prophets are born in the furnace of affliction. ** The best inspirations are the ones followed by inspired work. Losing your temper with someone is like drinking horse liniment and hoping the other guy chokes on it. Bill Hardison. (William L. Hardison, roper, rancher and friend) *** The man who first abused his fellows with swear words instead of bashing their brains out with a club, should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilisation. ~ John Cohen, Head of Psychology at Manchester University. A woman never is so tenacious of her rights as when she is in the wrong. Frederick Upham Adams *** Without music life would be a mistake -- Friedrich Nietzsche *** Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. Samuel Johnson *** Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. -- B.F. Skinner *** The fact that everyone else is doing it doesn't make it right ... (that) makes it pathetic. Jennifer Mattern *** A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** Man has his will, -- but woman has her way. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** Vulgar people can't be still. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. Elbert Hubbard. *** I cannot put up with being stared at. Sigmund Freud No matter what I start with, I always find myself back again with the neuroses and the psychical apparatus. Inside me there is a seething ferment, and I am only waiting for the next surge forward. I have felt impelled to start writing about dreams, with which I feel on firm ground. Sigmund Freud *** I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. Clarence Darrow *** The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow *** Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. Hosea Ballou *** One should always play fairly *** When I agree to play by your rules,
*** Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Hosea Ballou *** Tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination. Dallin H. Oaks *** I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather. John Burroughs *** "Cast my innocence into the scale and the glove of silk shall outweigh the glove of iron." Sir Walter Scott *** it’s common knowledge, not common practice. David Carleton *** One should always play fairly *** When I agree to play by your rules,
Christ was sinless because he clearly and determinedly wanted to be; being humans, fraught with frailties, we cannot live a sinless life yet -- BUT, we can clearly and determinedly want to be. Each time we fail- but get up to try again - we have built strength for our future battles. ~ Lin Stone *** Sin is the enemy of the human soul. ~ Bruce D. Porter *** We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. - George Bernard Shaw *** Giving up when things get hard doesn't make life easier. ~ Monica Saili *** It is not necessary for the good man to satisfy the curiosity of evil men. ~ Howard W. Hunter Woodman, spare that tree! The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. -- Booker T. Washington *** Give us the luxuries of life, and we shall dispense with its necessities. John Lothrop Motley *** Men make laws for women to keep. Edwin L. Arnold *** -- it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. Washington Irving. *** He was a master engraver who fell in love with Jackson's face, but forgot a few important details. Sara Paretsky *** There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. — Robert Orben *** The most comfortable place on earth is inside a rut that fits. Will Cook. *** Hatred is self-punishment Hosea Ballou *** "Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." - W B Yeats *** "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." George Washington Carver *** Smooth waters never make a good sailor Norman Jones ***
People are born into the world as assets, not liabilities. - Bill Strickland **
You can and you can't, *** "Gentlemen, today's game will be decided by four plays. Now, I don't know which plays those will be, so play every play like it's one of those four." Vince Lombardi *** A man in earnest finds
means, or, if he cannot find, creates them. *** Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. John Ruskin *** And there's always a flaw in a donkey's will. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** Thoughts are mightier than armies. W.M. Paxton *** It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass *** Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) A smile is the one curve
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer *** If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. -- Alice Duer Miller *** I run as if the track was made of egg shells. Jesse Owens *** Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. Reverend Larry Lorenzoni *** You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. Bob Hope *** If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. -- Dick Cavett *** "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." Robert A. Heinlein. *** The confused mind always says NO. Dan Lok *** If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst. Thomas Hardy *** “If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.” - Lyall Watson *** “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Anon *** A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. Horace Mann *** “A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.” - Erma Bombeck *** "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
George Burns.
*** I am an author because I
want to ask questions. If I had answers I'd be a politician. Eugene
Ionesco *** One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. Lady Nancy Astor *** Loud laughter is the sign of a vacant mind. Charles A. Callis *** "Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks." Orison Swett Marden. *** The world is not going to be saved by legislation. ~ William H. Taft *** Be patient and calm for no one can catch fish in anger. -Herbert Hoover Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hoover ** Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman ** Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. Dwight D. Eisenhower ** Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2. -- Fred Blechman *** *** People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves. Goldsmith *** Think of Giving not as a duty but as a Privilege. John D. Rockefeller Jr. *** I have been privileged to know some of the ablest men on earth—men of many faiths, many professions, many accomplishments, in nearly 150 countries. But I’ve never known a man who knew enough so that I was willing to trust him with my everlasting life. Richard L. Evans *** He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle. ~ Andrew Carnegie ** Sometimes the gods themselves forget the answers to their own riddles. Edwin L. Arnold *** If you want your loved ones to have a great smile that lasts a lifetime, start them off right, flossing good and eating light. Reading this FREE book will give you a head start. *** ** We only know one thing for certain; nobody knows for sure. ** "I Am Not Afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I Love Today." ~William Allen White |
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EMERSONNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson *** Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** No sensible man ever made an apology. Ralph Waldo Emerson *** The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical
equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. … Every
secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded,
every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. Emerson
Steam is no stronger now
than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better
use. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. *** Every cause produces
more than one effect. ~ Herbert Spencer Music must take rank
as the highest of the fine arts - as the one
which, more than any other, ministers to the
human spirit. ~ Herbert Spencer Science is organized
knowledge. ~ Herbert Spencer The great aim of
education is not knowledge but action. ~
Herbert Spencer The ultimate result
of shielding men from the effects of folly,
is to fill the world with fools. ~ Herbert
Spencer What a cage is to
the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. ~
Herbert Spencer When a man's
knowledge is not in order, the more of it he
has the greater will be his confusion. ~
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