favorite quotes...collected over the years.
in no particular order
"Your friend is the one who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubbard, American author (1856-1915)
"People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of
enjoying our work - blurring the lines between work and play - the
gains will be greater."
- Ellen Langer, American scientist and author.
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit
to live."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is
opinion." - Lester Markel, American editor (1894-1977)
" I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking
up something and finding something else on the way."
- Franklin P. Adams
"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, until
it does that, it hardly is experience."
- Elizabeth Bowen, author (1899-1973)
"The secret of education is respecting the pupil." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life
was in the past." - Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author (1879-1958)
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true
happiness." - Bertrand Russell, English philosopher (1872-1970)
"If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a
Christian anywhere."
- Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman, (1813-1887)
"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a
man who cannot be trusted to do big things."
- Lawrence Bell, aircraft manufacturer (1894-1956)
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Each child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged with man."
- Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize-winning poet (1861-1941)
"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out
of." - Anonymous
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock."
- Will Rogers
"The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also
turns to the left."
"Sin cannot be undone, only forgiven."
- Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born composer (1882-1971)
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world;
someone to love, something to do and something to hope for."
- Tom Bodett, author
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
- Winston Churchill
"It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are."
- James Mackintosh, writer (1765-1832)
"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it."
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
" I looked up 'politics' in the dictionary, and it's actually a
combination of two words; 'poli', which means many,
and 'tics', which means 'bloodsuckers.' "
-Jay Leno
"You'll never share in real love, until you love yourself." - Roger, "Rent"