"Quotes"



"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience." -Goethe


Here are some quotes that I found had at least a little revelence to me, or if nothing else made me think.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, May 19, 1998.
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"Gossip: The only thing that travels faster than E-mail." -Angie Papadakis

"A half truth is a whole lie." -Yiddish Proverb

"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win." -Elie Wiesel

"Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one." -Robert Brault

"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks." - Jack Penn

"It pays to know the enemy-not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend." -Margaret Thatcher

"Some people change thier ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat." -Caroline Schoeder

"If you find yourself standing in front of the refrigerator asking yourself whether your hungry, you're not." -Morris Mandel

"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all." -Edward De Bono

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." -George F. Will

"Country music is three chords and the truth." -Harlan Howard

"Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression." -Mark Helprin

"It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time." -Barbara Kingsolver

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." -James A. Michener

"I skate to where the puck is going, not to where it's been."-Wayne Gretzky on his success season after season

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -George Bernard Shaw

"Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit." -Elbert Hubbard

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason." -Jerry Seinfield

"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby." -Ruth E. Renkel

"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them." -Evelyn Waugh

"What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are." -C.S. Lewis

"The only thing that life really promises us is pain. It's up to us to create the joy." -Unknown

"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action." -Al Batt

"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son." -The Talmud

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do." -Mark Twain

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work." -Doug Larson

"A good time to keep your mouth shut is when your in deep water." -Sidney Goff

"How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teen-ager who wants to stay out all night?" -Doug Larson

"There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 a.m., It could be a right number." -Doug Larson

"All religions teach us to help people whenever we can. All religions teach us to play fair and not hit or kill or steal or cheat. All religions teach us we should be forgiving and cut people some slack when they mess up, because someday we will mess up too. All religions teach us to love our families, to respect our parents and to make new families when we grow up. Religions all over the world teach the same right way to live." -Rabbi Marc Gellman and Msgr. Thomas Hartman

"We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature." -Dale E. Turner

"All men like to think they can do it alone, but a real man knows there's no substitute for support, encouragement, or a pit crew." -Tim Allen

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get." - H. Jackson Brown

"There more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist." -Hugh Downs

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on Earth will be filled with glory." -Betty Smith

"Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow." - Diane Johnson

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is in the doing something else." -Tom Peters

"Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it." -Jess Lair

"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." -W.H. Auden

"A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be." -Carolyn Coats

"Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears." -Paul Simon

"The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have." -Anna Quindlen

"The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for." -Louis L'Amour

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into." -Henry Ward Beecher

"The man who views the world at age 50 the same he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." -Muhammad Ali

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by." -Carl Sandburg



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