Quotes
Susan
is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
-- Bible, Old Testament
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the
time.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your
humanity.
-- Albert Schweitzer
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the
dark place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong
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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
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Nettorfret
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the
dark place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong<<
true............
<b><font color="#6699CC">Nettie</b>
<I><font color="#993366">~*~"A good friend is like a warm quilt wrapped around
the heart!" .~*~</I>
Susan
hours when we loved not enough.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient
attention, than to any other talent.
-- Isaac Newton
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made
straight when you are dry.
-- African Proverb
A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience
and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind,
which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding
over what displeases you.
-- Joseph Rickaby
Susan
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
No good deed goes unpunished.
-- Clare Booth Luce, in H. Faber, The Book of Laws, 1980
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
-- Irish Proverb
Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.
-- Robert C. Pollock
Nettorfret
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915<<
:)
Crazy
:)
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...Little Miss Good Girl :)
Its All COKE
> -- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Okay..who else read that as "The important thing was to love rather than to
bondage"??
Sin
Susan
>bondage"??
:-X
Susan
taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
-- Voltaire, Candide, 1759
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
-- John Lancaster Spalding
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others,
without fearing it.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Nettorfret
Okay..who else read that as "The important thing was to love rather than to
bondage"??
<<<
Ohhhh SANTA !!??
Susan
reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life
and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.
-- Caleb Carr, 'The Angel of Darkness', 1997
It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
-- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not
lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about
remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
-- Saint Francis de Sales
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting
dollars back.
-- Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicate
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-- Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in
fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid,
solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine
woman.
-- Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation
for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
-- George Washington
If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You
must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't
a chance.
-- W. S. Gilbert
DITTO1292
> -- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
>
You sure Sindy didn't write this one LMAO
Ditto
Is it nap time yet?
Its All COKE
>> -- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
>>
>
>You sure Sindy didn't write this one LMAO
hehehe
Sin
Susan
there.
-- David Zucker
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
-- Chinese Proverb
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain
one who is anxious to leave.
-- Homer
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
-- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
Susan
and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest
instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
-Katharine Butler Hathaway
"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."
-Bob Talbert
"What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite
for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for
exertion;
a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men."
-Samuel Warren
"In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone."
-Ayn Rand
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and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest
instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
-Katharine Butler Hathaway<<
true.......
Susan
perfectly - you are still going in the right direction."
-Charles Garfield
"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly."
-Mabel Newcomber
"The magic of first love is the ignorance that it can never end."
-Benjamin Disraeli
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
-Peter F Drucker
"The best things carried to excess are wrong."
-- Charles Churchill
"He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid
ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it,
is little different from reproach."
-- Demosthenes
"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look
for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one
thing, it will always lead to something else."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."
-- Arab Proverb
Susan
is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru'
narrow chinks of his cavern."
-William Blake
"Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop
withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are
alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God."
-Mary Manin Morrissey
"Motivation is an external, temporary high that pushes you forward. Inspiration
is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward."
-Thomas Leonard
"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing
back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
-Henri Frederic Amiel
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem
worthwhile.
-- Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
-- Ancient Proverb
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is
made of.
-- Benjamin Franklin, 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746
Aplejack
>it
>is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru'
>narrow chinks of his cavern."
> -William Blake
Wow! A blast from the past! In college, I used this quote to end my
composition on ESP. The teacher loved it.
AJ
Susan
use today."
-Les Brown
"All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future
could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their
distant vision, that goal or purpose."
-Brian Tracy
"The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel
inferior."
-D.A. Battista
"Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery."
-Matthew Arnold
"To ourselves, we are great. Yet most of us live life without making a stand,
contented to blend into the background of self-rendering nothingness, and when
looking back feel contented at our mediocre accomplishments. Nobody remembers
the person who conformed out of inadequacy. Nobody notices a patch of grass,
they see the tree."
-Wayne Burrow
Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't
things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value
of what one does.
-- James Hilton
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
-- Lord Chesterfield
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
-- Charles Dickens
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839
Susan
is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't
need anything else.
-- Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want
it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy
that created the world.
-- Sheila Graham
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
-- Rod Steiger
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to
laugh either.
-- Golda Meir
Katie
>laugh either.
> -- Golda Meir
Hmmmmmmmmm........
<b><font color=#FF0000>~*~Katie~*~</font color>
<font color=#0000FF>Blood is thicker than water,
Oh, but love is thicker than blood.
~~Garth Brooks
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God Bless America
Susan
friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
-- Franklin P. Jones
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
-- James Thurber
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be
measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but
beware of ever doing less.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Katie
>a
>friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
> -- Franklin P. Jones
True......shouldn't be, but it is
for me, anyway......
Cy
a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
-- Franklin P. Jones
I appreciated honest criticism. I do think that there is a right and wrong way
to criticize someone though. And people should use a little tact when doing
so, to make sure they don't hurt someone's feelings.
Cy :)
Susan
would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry."
-Anthony Robbins
"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates
aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear --
a disastrous circle."
-Dorothy Thompson
"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every
disappointment."
-Henry David Thoreau
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
-Plato
"The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted."
-- Martha Graham
"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The
gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity
for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose;
plant it this afternoon!'"
-- John F. Kennedy
"People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for
what they've done."
-- Cullen Hightower
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Susan
break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us -
and to which we have no right."
-Myrtle Reed
"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those
who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good
music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the
happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they
are the cause of happiness in others."
-William Lyon Phelps
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... To see clearly is
poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."
-John Ruskin
"Healthy people realize that no amount of blaming can bring a moment of
happiness."
-Harold Bloomfield, MD
"Every artist was first an amateur."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself,
tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
"When you make a mistake, admit it.
If you don't, you only make matters worse."
-- Ward Cleaver
DITTO1292
> If you don't, you only make matters worse."
> -- Ward Cleaver
I guess watching The Beav is helping me give good advice to my son. I tell him
this all the time.....just didn't realize that good ole Ward taught me that
saying.
Susan
strong by conflict.
-- William Ellery Channing
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For
if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt
you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great
wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or your self confidence.
-- Robert Frost
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
-- Aaron Rose
Susan
imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate."
-William Arthur Ward
"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."
-Henry David Thoreau
"May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped
in thoughtfulness, and tied with love."
-L. O. Baird
"The best things in life aren't things."
-Art Buchwald
"Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have."
-- Elizabeth Bowen
"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know
what it is. So there is no need of defining it."
-- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island, 1915
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no
criticisms."
-- George Eliot, 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical
Life, 1857
"We go where our vision is."
-- Joseph Murphy
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in thoughtfulness, and tied with love."
-L. O. Baird<<
:))
Susan
wonderful to divest. It's rather like exhaling."
-Helen Hayes
"Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in
silence."
-Faith Baldwin
"Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders
that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow
our view of our personal experience."
-Christina Baldwin
"I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most, an instinct
leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill
them with new knowledge."
-Helene Iswolsky
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power
attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than
power."
-David Brin
"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so
wonderful at all."
-- Michelangelo Buonarroti
"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world."
-- Al Franken, 'Stuart Saves His Family'
"If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."
-- William Saroyan
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The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
-G. K. Chesterton
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DITTO1292
> -- Benjamin Franklin
OK...now I've never heard this before but it made me giggle!!!!
Nettorfret
-- Benjamin Franklin<<
Was wondering if Ole Ben was tipping a few pints when he wrote this one ??
Susan
-- Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
-- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Health is worth more than learning.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson,
June 11, 1790
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
-- Alexander Pope
Crazy
> -- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Sad but, true..
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...Little Miss Good Girl :)
Susan
> -- Benjamin Franklin<<
>
>Was wondering if Ole Ben was tipping a few pints when he wrote this one ??
>
ROFLOL, Nettie. Maybe he was talking about one of his compatriots.
Susan
the centre of the world.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
-- Woody Allen
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is
there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
-- Jane Austen
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light
as to what is best to be done.
-- Aaron Burr
Katie
>light
>as to what is best to be done.
> -- Aaron Burr
Hmmmmmmm........
Hate procrastination......
<b><font color=#FF0000>~*~Katie~*~</font color>
<font color=#0000FF>I can be your hero baby,
I can kiss away the pain
I will stand by you forever
You can take my breath away
~~From Hero
Nettorfret
Hate procrastination......
~*~Katie~*~<<
hmmmmm,, what about procrastinators ??????
:::::::::smiling sweetly::::::::
:D
Katie
>Hate procrastination......
>
>
>~*~Katie~*~<<
>
>hmmmmm,, what about procrastinators ??????
>:::::::::smiling sweetly::::::::
>:D
If ya weren't so damn sweet, I'd thwap ya!!
<g>
Nettorfret
>:D
If ya weren't so damn sweet, I'd thwap ya!!
<g>
~*~Katie~*~<<
(g)
See Jenn I am sweet, my folder can't be that big !!
Susan
dinner without giving an excuse.
-- Jules Renard
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
-- William Blake
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed
and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be
read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and
attention.
-- Sir Francis Bacon
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient
tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them
from what you see.
-- Bernard M. Baruch
Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.
-Thomas Taylor
Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the
accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects . . . which attempt to
cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.
-Rose Macaulay
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your
experiences and invest them in the future.
-Jim Rohn
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.
-Grace Hansen
There is a continuing, mandatory need for heresy in its most profound sense;
for freedom to choose and follow truth wherever it leads."
-William Edelen
Crazy
Susan
>
>
You're very welcome, LMGG. <g>
DITTO1292
Ditto
Susan
happiness.
-- Bertrand Russell
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out.
Patience is genius.
-- Comte de Buffon
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when
you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something
sitting down.
-- Charles F. Kettering
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until
he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by
occasional retirement.
-- Johann Georg von Zimmermann
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of
love - the first fluttering of its silken wings - the first rising sound and
breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or to
destroy.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in
the first place.
-Jonathan Swift
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set,
confidence is the difference.
-Chris Evert
Nettorfret
love - the first fluttering of its silken wings - the first rising sound and
breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or to
destroy.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<<
ohh very nice...
Susan
human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
-- Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper
of the sufferer.
-- Joseph Addison
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art
of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel.
Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle
of equal partnership.
-- Ann Landers
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There
is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
-- Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences but by those who
with open minds and hearts seek out connections.
-Katherine Paterson
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as
though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
-Goethe
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the
things we do.
-Freya Stark
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we
really fear.
-Charles Caleb Colton
Susan
It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand."
-Madeleine L'Engle
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten
the gift."
-Albert Einstein
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in
having new eyes."
-Marcel Proust
"The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not
facing their idea of reality."
-Margaret Halsey
KatBearz
>facing their idea of reality."
Oh, good one :)
Susan
build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
-Barbara Bush
"Everybody must learn this lesson somewhere -- that it costs something to be
what you are."
-Shirley Abbott
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain
unaltered."
-Aristotle
"Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old,
when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something
that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging."
-Nina Berberova
"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing."
-Catherine de Hueck Doherty
"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."
-- Evenius
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up."
-- Thomas A. Edison
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang
there except those that sang best."
-- Henry Van Dyke
"Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity."
-- Horace Mann
Katie
>to
>success when they gave up."
> -- Thomas A. Edison
>
Smart man, Mr. Edison.......
Nettorfret
there except those that sang best."
-- Henry Van Dyke<<
I've always liked this one
think I had it as a sigline once
Susan
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
-- William Wordsworth
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
-- Michael Masser and Linda Creed
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-- Bill Cosby
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
-- Spanish Proverb
Katie
>His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
> -- William Wordsworth
>
Yes, indeedy.......
> Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
> -- Michael Masser and Linda Creed
Yup....now, if only......
> I don't know the key to success,
> but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
> -- Bill Cosby
Soooooo true......and in the process you make yourself miserable. Been there,
done that more than once.....not fun....
Susan
and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
-- Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
-- Sophocles
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
-- Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
-- King Charles I, of England
Katie
for further reading and future sigs.....
Nettorfret
-- Sophocles<<
Love is quite powerful
as is laughter I believe
Susan
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept
it.
Then proceed to improve on the worst."
-Dale Carnegie
"The trouble with people who have broken a habit is that they usually have the
pieces mounted and framed."
-Ivern Boyett
"Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but
consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing."
-Bart Conner
"Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran
better than it does now."
-Elizabeth Janeway
"Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred
benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them."
-- Ellis Peters
"The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you."
-- Elmer Davis
"Be not slow to visit the sick."
-- Ecclesiastes
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the
things we did not do that is inconsolable."
-- Sidney J. Harris
Its All COKE
> -- Elmer Davis
Spiders?
Sin
Susan
ceased to love."
-Oscar Wilde
"Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and
of farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rosy-hued only at
sunrise
and sunset, but throughout the day are gray and cold."
-Jean Paul Richter
"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions,
not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends; and that the
most liberal professions of goodwill are very far from being the surest marks
of it."
-George Washington
"If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry."
-Anton Chekhov
"After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to
deal with the irritating details of outer life."
-- Evelyn Underhill
"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is
to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it.
Establish your priorities and go to work."
-- H. L. Hunt
"Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him,
and cannot be reasoned out."
-- Sydney Smith
Susan
>> -- Elmer Davis
>
>Spiders?
ROFLOL, Sin
DITTO1292
> -Anton Chekhov
>
Ain't that the truth <g>
Ditto ():-)
The innocent angelic one <g>
Susan
time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
-Elizabeth Taylor (the writer, not the actress)
You are the master of the unspoken word; once spoken, you are the slave.
-Russian Proverb
There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost
transcendent freedom, for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.
-Carol Pearson
Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.
-Rodney Crowell
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
-- Christina Baldwin
People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of
opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of
increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all
its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
-- Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original
thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected
to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
-- David M. Ogilvy
Katie
>time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
> -Elizabeth Taylor (the writer, not the actress)
One would think I would have finally developed some patience by now.......