Quotes for the Day
"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience."
---Unknown
"Always buy a good bed and a good pair of shoes. If you are not in
one, you're in the other."
---Gloria Hunniford
"HAM AND EGGS - A day's work for a chicken; a lifetime commitment
for a pig."
---Unknown
"We need not fear the expression of ideas -- we do need to fear their
suppression."
---Harry S. Truman, September 22, 1950
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week
or two he will feel as good as ever."
---Don Marquis
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be
taken seriously."
---Hubert Horatio Humphrey
U. S. Vice President 1965-69 (19ll - 1978)
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't - Richard Bach
"Liberals hate America, they hate 'flag-wavers', they hate abortion
opponents, they hate all religions except Islam (post 9/11). Even
terrorists don't hate America like liberals do." - Ann Coulter
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD
"The teacher asked her students to make a list of the seven natural
wonders of the world. The class set to work on the project for quite
a while, and as time wore on some of the students finished the list.
The teacher said the children could go outside for recess as each
one finished. Eventually, only one little girl was still at her desk writing. Then she smiled, wrote something, and jumped up, joyfully announcing that she was done and skipped happily out to play with the others. The teacher picked up the paper and read the following:
1. Seeing 2. Hearing 3. Tasting. 4. Touching 5. Running.
6. Laughing 7. Loving
---Author Unknown
"Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will
avoid you."
---Author Unknown
"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me so sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."
---Garrison Keiller
"I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking."
---Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the United States (1856 - 1924)
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
---Benjamin Franklin
"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week."
---Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."
---General George S. Patton, Jr.
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like a fire,
a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment
should it be left to irresponsible action."
---George Washington
"The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it."
---Will Foley
"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of
your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
---Source Unknown
"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline, or the
pain of regret or disappointment.
---Douglas Macarthur
"An infallable method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be
devoured."
---Konrad Adenauer
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak and timid."
---General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical
improvement on the words of Genesis, that, 'In the beginning God
made Heaven and Earth.' "
---C.S. Lewis
"Democracy demands that little men should not take big men seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves."
---C.S. Lewis
"If a man could have half his wishes, he would double his troubles."
---Benjamin Franklin
"When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow."
---George Herbert
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
---Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted."
---Albert Einstein (1877 - 1955)
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
---Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
".....because of what you have done the heavens have become part of man's world.....for one priceless moment in the whole history of man all of the people on this earth are truly one."
---President Richard M. Nixon
(On first lunar landing.)
"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have
both failed."
---Kin Hummbard
"The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to
denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."
---Albert Einstein
"If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy."
---Unknown
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in
practice, there is."
---Jon L.A. von de Snepscheut
"I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark,
but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world."
---Helen Keller
"The doctor X-rayed my head and found nothing."
---Dizzy Dean, after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 world series
"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose
everything else."
---Bernadette Devlin
"A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company
from which he is kept out."
---Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States
"To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil,
you're overdoing it."
---Josh Jenkins
"You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it."
---Tennessee Williams
"Human actions can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed."
---Abraham Lincoln
"It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, peace,
peace -- but there is no peace! The war is actually begun! The next
gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of
resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand
we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have?
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery. Forbid it, Almighty God! -- I know not what course others may take; but as for me give me liberty or give me death!"
---The last part of Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia burgesses in
St. John's church, Richmond, March 23, 1775
"People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well
you did it."
---Howard W. Newton
"Fortune knocks but once, misfortune has much more patience."
---Jonathan Swift
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
---Albert Einstein
"Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid."
---Thomas Fuller
"To affirm that the airplane is going to revolutionize the future is to
be guilty of the wildest exaggeration....."
---Scientific American Magazine, 1910
"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest
willing to let them."
---Robert Frost
"Every man desires to live long but no man would be old."
---Jonathan Swift
"If you want truly to understand something, try to change it."
---Kurt Lewin
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
---Jean Kerr
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its
strength."
---Corrie Ten Boom
"If computers get to powerful, we can organize them into a committee --- that will do them in."
---Bradley's Bromide
"Never explain ---- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you any way."
---Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
"If you want to make peace, you can't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
---Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)
"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and
can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."
---Robert Frost (1875-1963), American Poet
"The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."
---Aesop (620 B.C. - 560 B.C.), the Eagle and the Arrow
"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is in itself the
highest political end."
---Lord Acton (1834 - 1902)
"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no
meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning"
---C. S. Lewis
"Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil and let us see what
we are made of."
---Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does
not get much further."
---Sir Heneage Ogilvie
"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.
It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,
but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."
---Arthur Ashe
"Joy is the serious business of Heaven."
---C. S. Lewis
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
---Bertrand Russell
"Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and
too little on the last six thousand years."
---Will Durant
"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts, comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in numbers, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
---Viktor Frankl
"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and the keystone under independence... the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable...the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that is good."
---George Washington
"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and
appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the
words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How
chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of
afflictions."
---Abraham Lincoln
"Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your
own. You may both be wrong."
---Robert Carroll
"We can do no great things; only small things with great love."
---Mother Teresa
"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."
---W. B. Prescott
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
---Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions --- it only
guarantees equality of opportunity."
---Irving Kristol
"My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more."
---Walter Matthau
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
---Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
---Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
"The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do."
---Harold Coffin
"The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn."
---Caryl Haskins
"We often repent of what we have said, but, never, never, of that
which we have not."
---Thomas Jefferson
"If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life."
---Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom
(On Jan 27, 1967, astronauts Grissom, White and Chafee died
from a flash fire aboard Apollo 204 spacecraft.)
"He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not."
---Italian Proverb
"Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the innermost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion."
---Robert J. McCracken
"Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million
dollars are no more happier than people with nine million dollars."
---Hobart Brown
"For every action there is an equal and opposite government program."
---Main's Law
"Spend sufficient time confirming the need and the need will disappear."
---Ed's Fifth Rule of Procrastination
"When traveling down the freeway, the first bug to hit a clean windshield will always land directly in front of the drivers face.
---Quigley's Law of Highway Driving
"Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman."
---John J. Bernet
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
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Related Scripture: "That ye not be slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises."
HEBREWS 6:12
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
---Elbert Hubbard
"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold."
---Maurice Setter
"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to prevail in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."
---Edmond Burke
"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as
satisfying as in income tax refund."
---F. J. Raymond
"Nuclear physics is much easier than tax law. It's rational and always works the same way."
---Jerold Rochwald
"Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes."
---Dave Barry, "Sweating out Taxes"
"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner."
---English Proverb
"Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually
practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments."
---Mary Ann Kelty
"Blessed are they who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting."
---Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco
The following quote from MARK TWAIN has a lot of truth in it. Happy New Year to all:):)
"New Year's Day -- Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerable shorter than ever. We shall also reflect pleasantly upon how we did the same old thing last year about this time. However, go in, community. New year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody, save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it, with a looseness suited to the greatness of the occasion."
---Letter to Virgina City Territorial Enterprise, January, 1863
"I love working for myself; it's so empowering. Except when I call in sick, I always know when I'm lying."
Submitted by: Rita Rudner
"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."
---Horace Mann
"For many of us, sadly, the spirit of Christmas is "hurry". And yet, eventually, the hour comes when the rushing ends and the race against the calendar mercifully comes to a close. It is only now perhaps that we truly recognize the Spirit of Christmas. It is not a matter of days or weeks, but of centuries - nearly twenty of them now since that holy night in Bethlehem. Regarded in this manner, the pre-Christmas rush may do us greater service than we realize. With all its temporal confusion, it may just help us to see that by contrast, Christmas itself is eternal."
---Burton Hills
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope."
---Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, Novelist and Statesman
(1874-1965)
"Common looking people are the best in the world. That is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."
---Abraham Lincoln
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
---Evan Hardin
"If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done."
---Michael Taylor
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong-----because someday you will have been all of these.
---George Washington Carver
"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."
---Roger Babson
"I believe that there is a God and that God brings structure to the universe on all levels from elementary particles to living beings to superclusters of galaxies."
---John E. Fornaess, Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University
KINDNESS
I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight
That to somebody's need made me blind.
But I never have yet felt a tinge of regret
For being a little too kind.
---AUTHOR UNKNOWN
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence that speech."
---Martin Froquhar Tupper
"Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales."
---Bryon J. Langenfield
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold--------but so does a hard boiled egg."
---Anonymous
"Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself."
---Harold Medina
"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."
---Sebastien Roch Nicholas Chamfort
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."
---Robert Frost
"There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.....In spring, summer and fall, people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself."
---Ruth Stout
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
---Charles Caleb Colton
