Assorted quotes
Lonely God
stuff from the "1994 Celebrity Daily Almanac" by Bob Barry (1993),
"Bartlett's Familar Quotations Fourteenth Edition" by John Bartlett
(1968), "637 Best Things Ever Said" by Robert Byrne (1990 and 1993), and
"Peter's Quotations" by Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1977). The second group
is actually from a Pocket Pal year 2001 diary (www.myrononline.com). --LG
A.
It may be those who do most, dream most. - Stephen Leacock
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be
sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times. - Anselm Feuerbach
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything
or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. - Alfred Korzybski
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same. -
Elbert Hubbard
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride
worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. -
Frankin P. Jones
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much
easier to give up than bad ones. - Somerset Maugham
There is nothing permanent except change. - Heraclitus
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. -
Dave Tyson Gentry
Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person
who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -
Walter Bagehot
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to
become what they are capable of being. - Johann W. von Goethe
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of
eighty and gradually approach eighteen. - Mark Twain
A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. - Anonymous
B.
The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing? - Ellie Katz
Goals are dreams with deadlines. - Diana Scharf Hunt
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson
Go the extra mile. It's never crowded. -"Executive Speedwriter Newsletter"
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the
best in ourselves. - William Arthur Ward
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they
were the big things. - Robert Brault
It's easy to get good players. Gettin' em to play together, that's the
hard part. - Casey Stengel
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. - Robert Orben
A good plan executed right now is far better than a perfect plan
executed next week. - George S. Patton
... Skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. -
Wayne Gretzky
I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangeroius to offer me the
position. - Mark Twain
When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance.
Sometimes I just go for the estimate. - Phyllis Diller
In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. - Andy Warhol
There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Mohandas K. Gandhi
April prepares her green traffic light, and the world thinks GO! -
Christopher Morley
A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast. - Groucho Marx
Start every day with a smile and get it over with. - W.C. Fields
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. - Kimberly Johnson
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they
have a common enemy. - Sam Levenson
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. -
James Thurber
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. - Jerry
Seinfeld
My interest is in the future... because I'm going to spend the rest of
my life there. - Charles Kettering
You never know when you're making a memory - Rickie Lee Jones
A genius is a talented person who does his homework. - Thomas Edison
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you
have car windows. - Erma Bombeck
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public
relations writers. - Daniel J. Boorstin
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot - but I always found them. -
Rodeny Dangerfield
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from
themselves. - James Matthew Barrie
Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow. - Tom Wilson
It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again. -
Vince Lombardi
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. -
Maya Angelou
Too much of a good thing is wonderful. - Mae West
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. - Woodrow Wilson
Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first
four hours of a diet. - Dan Bennett
I can live for two months on a good compliment. - Mark Twain
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of
ice cream fall from the cone. - Jim Fiebig
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. - Henry Ford
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being
said. - Peter F. Drucker
A man who doesn't stand for something will fall for anything. - Peter
Marshall
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. - W.A.
Nance
Imagination is the true magic carpet - Norman Vincent Peale
The moment may be temporary, but the memory is forever. - Bud Meyer
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and
sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. - Arnold H. Glasow
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. - Hada Bejar
Top cats often begin as underdogs. - Bernard Meltzer
One thought driven home is better than three left on base. - James Liter
Just when you think you've graduated from the school of experience,
someone thinks up a new course. - Mary H. Waldrip
Change starts when someone sees the next step. - William Drayton
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop
pedaling. - Claude Pepper
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will. -
Sugar Ray Robinson
Your expression is the most important thing you can wear. - Sid Ascher
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -
Eric Hoffer
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you,
and just before you realize what's wrong with it. - Unknown
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"You never know your strength until you are tested" - David Boreanaz