"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein."
- Jackson Brown Jr., writer
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Friday, November 6, 2009
WORDS to Live Better By...
"Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, "There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it."" -- Clifford Sloan, Publisher
"It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts."
-- Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell and a hell of a heav'n." -- John Milton, poet
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
-- Muhammad Ali, boxer
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open." -- Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor
"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - George Patton, General
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do." - Amelia Earhart, aviator
"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action."
-- Napolean Hill, Motivational Writer
"To try and fail is at least to learn. To fail to try is to suffer the loss of what might have been." - Benjamin Franklin, statesman
"If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it." - Francis Chichester, adventurer
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
- Maya Angelou, Poet
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
-- John Churton Collins, critic
"Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances."
-- Bruce Barton, advertising executive
"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true." - Leon Suenens, Clergyman
"Freedom lies in being bold." - Robert Frost, poet
"There is only one way to make a great deal of money, and that is in a business of your own." - J. Paul Getty, oil tycoon
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...and, on the "lighter side" (from different sources) LOL...
"Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.' - Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)
"I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.' - Eleanor Roosevelt
'Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement' - Mark Twain
"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible." - George Burns
"Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. '
- Victor Borge
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
- Mark Twain
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates
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"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."
- Groucho Marx
" My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." - Jimmy Durante
"I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back."
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat." - Alex Levine
"My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying." - Rodney Dangerfield
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"Money can't buy you happiness ... But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." - Spike Milligan
"Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP" . - Joe Namath
"I don't feel old.. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap." - Bob Hope
"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it." - W. C. Fields
"We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress." - Will Rogers
"Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you." - Winston Churchill
"Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty ...But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out." - Phyllis Diller
"By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere." - Billy Crystal
"And the cardiologist's diet: - If it tastes good spit it out." |
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(Ain't that just the livin' end?" LOL)
Have a joyous weekend!
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