GEE! I WISH I HAD SAID THAT!
No person has a right to do as they please
except when they please to do right!
I would hate to be a DNA molecule.
There is so much to remember!
The mind will never be unstable
that has only prejudices to rest on
and the current will run with destructive fury
when there are no barriers to break its force!
Were there none who were discontented
with what they have
the world would never reach for anything better!
The most upsetting thing ever heard:
Daddy, my peanut butter sandwich
is stuck in the VCR!
Everybody gets so much information
all day long they lose their common sense!
Rewards and punishments
are the lowest forms of education!
Mum loves Christmas because
she sees us hanging things up!
The pathway with no obstacles
might seem the best thoroughfare,
however, in reality,
it probably leads nowhere!
Some people are so pessimistic
They do not recognize life�s joys,
And if opportunity should knock
They would complain about the noise!
Anything free is really nice,
with the possible exception of free advice!
The best act of kindness
is the one that isn�t an act at all!
If wisdom�s way you wisely seek
Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak
And how and when and where!
I sent my soul into the invisible
Some secret of the afterlife to tell
And bye and bye it returned to me
And said "I myself am heaven and hell!"
I was put on this earth to accomplish
a certain number of things.
Right now, I am so far behind,
I will never die!
Too often those with everything
find they have nothing
while those with nothing
find they have everything.
There three kinds of people in the world,
those who can count
and those who cannot count.
A gentleman first practices
what he preaches
and then preaches
what he practices.
Decay is inherent in all things.
Work out your own salvation
with diligence.
To be a gentleman
is indeed most commendable.
To be a gentle man
is the very essence of humanity.
Happiness is like jam.
You cannot spread it around
without getting some of it on yourself.
They lived and quarrelled,
good and bad, handsome and ugly,
rich and poor.
Now they are all dead, and past the test.
They are all equal now.
If you requite injury with kindness,
how then will you requite kindness?
Requite injury with justice
and kindness with kindness.
Be careful
how you change your mate.
What you create may be much more,
and quite different than what you intended.
Roosters crow, but the hens deliver.
Learn to listen
so you can listen to learn.
Hear this language of love
I have learned just for you.
Do not do to others what you
would not want others to do to you.
Imagination is highest kite we can fly.
To be prepared is half the victory.
Nobody can be exactly like me.
Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
A good workman is known
by his tools.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Seriousness is the refuge
of the shallow mind.
Suffer fools gladly. They may be right.
When we cannot dream any longer,
we die.
What is the use of a book
without pictures or conversation?
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
A live mind can sense a window
to a world of possibilities.
Mistakes are part of the dues
we pay for a full life.
It is a poor plan
that permits no modification.
Computers are useless.
They only give you answers.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
I do not wish to gain immortality
through my work.
I want to gain it by not dying.
There never were in the world two
opinions alike, no more than two hairs
or two grains of sand.
The most universal quality is diversity.
To love life through labor is
to be intimate with life�s innermost secret.
Progress in civilization has been
accompanied by progress in the kitchen.
The relationship between the data
is more important than the data itself.
To understand everything makes one very indulgent.
Life should always be as soft as water
and as pure as snow.
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of any subject.
The actual enemy is the unknown.
Men stumble over the truth from time
to time, but most pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had ever happened.
Books are good enough in their own way,
but they are a mighty bloodless substitute
for life.
It is not the facts that we can
put our fingers on that concern us.
It is the sum of these facts.
It is not the data we want,
but the essence of that data.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Some of our decisions are accurate.
Even a stop watch is right twice a day.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment
in recognition of that pattern.
Actually, I do not like money,
but it quiets my nerves.
The real danger of the computer age is not
that computers will think like people,
rather that people will think like computers.
Education is a wonderful thing.
If you could not sign your name,
you would have to pay cash.
If you save your money,
someday it will save you.
He who laughs lasts.
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison.
If it were not for him, we would be
surfing the net by candlelight.
When you talk to God, you are praying.
When God talks to you, you are schizophrenic.
The quickest way for a parent to get a
child�s attention is to sit down and appear comfortable.
Some of us go over our budgets carefully every month,
while most of us just go over our budgets.
History is an account, mostly false, of
events mostly unimportant, which are brought
about by rulers, who are mostly knaves,
and soldiers, who are mostly fools.
Let no one suppose that the words
~doctor and patient~ can disguise the fact
that they are ~employer and employee~!
When you are serious about having fun,
is it really much fun at all?
The only thing worse than someone who can cook and will not,
is someone who cannot cook and will.
We must be aware especially of the person who will clip the wings of an eagle
to feather their own nest.
Whenever a subject becomes obsolete,
we make it a required course.
It is not difficult to understand modern art.
If it can hangs on the wall, it�s a painting.
If you can walk around it, it�s a sculpture.
Get your motor running and head out on the highway of life.
Look for adventure in whatever comes your way.
My crown is in my heart, not on my head,
not decked with diamonds and Indian stones,
nor to be seen.
My crown is called contentment,
a crown that seldom even kings enjoy.
If one only wished to be happy,
this could be easily accomplished.
But we wish to be happier than other people.
This is always difficult for we believe others
to be happier than we are.
The soul would have no rainbow
had the eyes no tears.
Love sees more, not less.
Because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Love looks through the telescope.
Envy looks through the microscope.
Persons are to be loved.
Things are to be used.
My soul is too glad and too great
to be at heart, the enemy of anyone.
The very best portion of a good
person�s life are those little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
When you get into a tight place and
everything goes against you, till
it seems as though you cannot hold on
a minute longer, never give up,
for that is just the place and time
that the tide may turn.
There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it is illogical for any of us
to find fault with the rest of us.
The greatest pleasure is to do a good
deed in secret and be found out by accident.
If there is any good that I can do
or any kindness I can show,
let me do it now
for I shall not pass this way again.
I am but one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
Whatever I can do, I will do.
I see that patriotism is not enough.
I must die without hatred or bitterness toward anyone.
(Edith Cavell, English nurse shot by Germans as a spy in World War 1)
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not
what your country can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your country.
Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision.
Today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
The grand essentials of happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
The men who followed Jesus were unique in their generation.
They turned the world upside down
because their hearts had been turned right side up.
The world has never been the same.
Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte have founded empires resting the creations
of their genius on force. Jesus Christ founded
an empire on love, and to this hour,
millions of men would die for him.
O what a happy girl am I
Although I cannot see,
I am resolved that in this world
Contented I will be.
How many blessings I enjoy
That other people don�t,
To weep and sigh because I�m blind
I cannot and I won�t.
(Fanny Crosby at eight years of age)
They may not need me, yet they might.
I�ll let my head be just in sight,
A smile as small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.
Give me a sense of humor
Give me the grace of a joke,
To get some happiness from life
And pass it on to other folk.
Ignorance of the law excuses no one
and excuses no one from practicing it.
A good book is like a garden carried in your pocket.
Seeing is deceiving. It is eating that�s believing.
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
I danced beneath the crescent moon
I basked beneath the sun,
I lived a life of going to do
And died with nothing done!
Violets are purple
Roses are red,
I truly believe
There has been enough said.
