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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