Here are some bits and bytes of life, some noteable quotables, that stand out for me or that I hope will stand
out for others! If there is no persons name next to the quote, it was either anonymous
OR I could not find the original source.
Enjoy!
"It's hard to be free but when it works, it sure is worth it." -- Janis Joplin
"I could do without many things with no hardship--you are not one of them."
"Make a choice. It will get you some place bad or someplace good but at least it will get you someplace." --- Jim Melanson
"Neutrality helps the oppressor, Never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." ---Elie Wiesel
"Do or do not. There is no try." --- Yoda
"To do is to be" - Descartes
"To be is to do" - Voltaire
"Do be do be do" - Sinatra
"Don't Dream It, Be It." --- R.H.P.S.
"We were not meant to arrive at our graves in a pristine condition. Rather, we were meant to skid in sideways, used up, worn out and falling apart while yelling "WOW! WHAT A RIDE!!!" --- Unknown (let me know if you know)
"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall." --- Vince Lombardi
"Aging is bad, but consider the alternative."
"Luck may sometimes help; work always helps. "
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." --- WH Auden
"May you live all the days of your life."Jonathan Swift
"He who never fell never climbed."
"Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow." --- Buddha
"The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life." --- Immanuel Kant
"Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here." --- Marianne Williamson
"It is not that I belong to the past, but the past belongs to me." --- Mary Antin
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living." --- Plato
"Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality." --- Emily Dickinson
"When I grow up I want to be a little boy." --- Joseph Heller
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will." --- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." --- James Allen
"Success is getting up one more time than you fall down."
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." --- Robert Green Ingersoll
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." --- Benjamin Franklin
"Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone." --- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past." --- Robertson Davies
"Improvement counts, no matter how small."
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." --- William James
"Everything changes, nothing remains without change." --- Buddha
"Respect cannot be learned, purchased, or acquired; it can only be earned." --- Bits & Pieces.
"To get to the top, get off your bottom!" --- Ken Roberts
"Make goals of your dreams, not dreams of your goals." --- Ken Roberts
"Defeat is for those who acknowledge it." --- Ken Roberts
"Look at these deductions! I think my cup runneth over because too many people have their hands in it!" --- Frank and Ernest (Cartoon)
"It's not what happens to you that matters but how you react to it that counts." --- Epictetus, 1st Century A.D.
"Don't wait. Conditions are never perfect." --- Ken Roberts
"In order to be creative, you don't have to be original." --- Ray Bradbury
"Doing nothing is the best way to get no where." --- Ken Roberts
"Failure is an essential ingredient of success." --- Ken Roberts
"Trying and failing is better than failing to try." --- Ken Roberts
"The further backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." --- Winston Churchill
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons history has to teach." --- Aldous Huxley
"If you think you can or you think you can't, your right!"
"What is a disaster for most is an opportunity for a few." --- Richard Ney
"He who does not open his eyes must open his purse." --- German Proverb
"The world is for those who make their dreams come true." --- Harold Gray
"I want you to learn to listen, to question, to dream." --- Clement Watt
"To have everything you want, you need only to help others get what they want." --- J. Paul Getty
"God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference."
"Now that I'm older, here's what I discovered: I STARTED out with nothing...I still have most of it."
"When did my wild oats turn to prunes and All Bran?"
"I finally got my head together, now my body is falling apart."
"Funny, I don't remember being absent minded."
"It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser."
"The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging."
"I went to school to become a wit, only got halfway through."
"It was all so different before everything changed."
"Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant."
"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."
"I wish the buck stopped here... I could use a few."
"It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end."
"It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere."
"The only time the world beats a path to your door is when you're in the bathroom."
"If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees."
"When you're finally holding all the cards, why does everyone else decide to play chess?"
"It's not hard to meet expenses... they're everywhere."
"Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty, but everything else seems to wear out, fall out or spread out."
"There are three signs of old age. The first is loss of memory; the other two, I forget."
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." --- Golda Meir
"Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else."
"Never test the depth of the water with both feet."
"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
"Some days you are the bug; some days you are the windshield."
"Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket."
"A closed mouth gathers no foot."
"Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving."
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."
"Many people will walk in and out of your life. But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart."
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift."
"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."
"Sex is like air. It's not important unless you aren't getting any."
"Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted."
"Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else."
"Never test the depth of the water with both feet."
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments."
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."
"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
"If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it."
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
"Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time."
"Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket."
"A closed mouth gathers no foot."
"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together."
"There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works."
"Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving."
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
"Never miss a good chance to shut up."
"We are born naked, wet, and hungry, and get slapped on our ass ... then things get worse."
"The most wasted day of all is one in which we have not laughed."
