Quotes October 2007


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Remember.....Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

Unknown

It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers. In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late.

Accordingly, I am readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I will, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials - after the fact.

Gen. Robert E. Lee

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

Charles Darwin

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Ann Landers

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlin

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Allbright

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Peter Ustinov

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Sir Winston Churchill

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Mohandas K. Ghandi

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Plato

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

William Shakespeare