Happiness
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. Margaret Bonnano:
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
Al Batt,
Al Batt,
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. Robert Louis Stevenson:
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret B. Runbeck
Margaret B. Runbeck
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The more I see of the real champions and succeeders in this world, the more I become convinced that natural aptitude and talent are not the secrets to their success. Rather it is the ability to overcome obstacles, including the obstacles we place in our own paths, that makes the difference between success and failure.
Robert L. Backman
Robert L. Backman
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria! Bill Watterson
"...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it..."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
--Epictetus
--Epictetus
"The US Constitution does not guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
--Benjamin Franklin
--Benjamin Franklin
"Happiness is like a crystal,
Fair and exquisite and clear,
Broken in a million pieces,
Shattered, scattered, far and near.
Now and then along life's pathway,
Lo! some shining fragments fall;
But there are so many pieces
No one ever finds them all.
You may find a bit of beauty,
Or an honest share of wealth,
While another, just beside you
Gathers honor, love, or health.
Vain to choose or grasp unduly,
Broken is the perfect ball;
And there are so many pieces
No one ever finds them all.
Yet the wise, as on they journey,
Treasure every fragment clear,
Fit them as they may together,
Imagining the shattered sphere,
Learning ever to be thankful,
Though their share of it is small;
For it has so many pieces No one ever finds them all."
--Priscilla Leonard
Fair and exquisite and clear,
Broken in a million pieces,
Shattered, scattered, far and near.
Now and then along life's pathway,
Lo! some shining fragments fall;
But there are so many pieces
No one ever finds them all.
You may find a bit of beauty,
Or an honest share of wealth,
While another, just beside you
Gathers honor, love, or health.
Vain to choose or grasp unduly,
Broken is the perfect ball;
And there are so many pieces
No one ever finds them all.
Yet the wise, as on they journey,
Treasure every fragment clear,
Fit them as they may together,
Imagining the shattered sphere,
Learning ever to be thankful,
Though their share of it is small;
For it has so many pieces No one ever finds them all."
--Priscilla Leonard
Attitude
If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't.
Thomas S. Monson
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't.
Thomas S. Monson
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
When you feel 'dog tired' at night, it may be because you growled all day.
What you see depends mainly upon what you look for.
Being Kind
Be nice to other people; they outnumber you 5.5 billion to one.
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John Wooden
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ~Author Unknown
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ~Author Unknown
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. --Knights of Pythagoras
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Albert Schweitzer
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? Jane Nelson
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? Jane Nelson
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. ~Mignon McLaughlin,
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. ~Mignon McLaughlin,
I hope my achievements in life shall be these:
That I will have fought for what was right and fair,
that I will have risked for that which mattered, that
I will have given help to those who were in need...
That I will have left the earth a better place for what
I've done and who I've been.
--C. Hoppe
That I will have fought for what was right and fair,
that I will have risked for that which mattered, that
I will have given help to those who were in need...
That I will have left the earth a better place for what
I've done and who I've been.
--C. Hoppe
The more we pray for those who mistreat us, the less likely we will continue to consider them our enemies. . . . It is as much for our own good as for the good of our enemies that the Lord asks us to love them. Mary Ellen Edmunds
Do unto others even if they never ever do unto you.
Mary Ellen Edmunds
You lift me, and I'll lift you, and we'll ascend together.
Do unto others even if they never ever do unto you.
Mary Ellen Edmunds
You lift me, and I'll lift you, and we'll ascend together.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Live in such a way that there will be no regrets when someone else follows in your footsteps
Being Yourself
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. ~James Matthew Barrie
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human. ~Antonio Machado
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. ~Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~Kurt Vonnegut
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. ~James Matthew Barrie
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human. ~Antonio Machado
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. ~Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~Kurt Vonnegut
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. ~Sa'Di
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971
There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you - just reach deep into yourself! ~The Quote Garden
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. ~Sonya Friedman
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. ~E.F. Schumacher
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. ~Sonya Friedman
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. ~E.F. Schumacher
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
-- e. e. cummings
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
--Anita Koddick
-- e. e. cummings
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
--Anita Koddick
There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is.
William George Jordan
William George Jordan
Be yourself. The world will appreciate the originality.
Bicycles
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~Ernest Hemingway
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. ~John F. Kennedy
It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they're out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle's simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep. ~Gurdon S. Leete
The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. ~Julie Furtado
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride. ~John F. Kennedy
It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they're out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle's simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep. ~Gurdon S. Leete
The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. ~Julie Furtado
Childhood
I was born wild --this terrible compulsion to behave normally is the result of childhood trauma.
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. Bill Watterson
"Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince"
"May you always see the world through the eyes of a child."
~CJ
"Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high
that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry."
~Alvin Price
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince"
"May you always see the world through the eyes of a child."
~CJ
"Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high
that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry."
~Alvin Price
"The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart."
~Mencius
~Mencius
"Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child."
~Mary MacCracken
"Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
~(Proverbs 22:6)
"You know that children are growing up
when they start asking questions that have answers."
~John J. Plomp
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
~Bruce Barton
~Mary MacCracken
"Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
~(Proverbs 22:6)
"You know that children are growing up
when they start asking questions that have answers."
~John J. Plomp
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
~Bruce Barton
An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys!
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
Chocolate
If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?"
Marquise de Sévigné
Marquise de Sévigné
“Carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested; that it does not cause the same harmful effects to feminine beauty which are blamed on coffee, but is on the contrary a remedy for them.”
Jean-Antheleme Brillat-Savarin
Jean-Antheleme Brillat-Savarin
If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly. ~Author Unknown
Chocolate is the only aromatherapy I need. ~Jasmine Heiler
Chocolate is like medicine - but as with medicine, the key is the proper dose. Don't overdo it. ~Edward "Grandpa" Jones
Chocolate is the only aromatherapy I need. ~Jasmine Heiler
Chocolate is like medicine - but as with medicine, the key is the proper dose. Don't overdo it. ~Edward "Grandpa" Jones
Chocolate remedies adversity. ~Jareb Teague
If there's no chocolate in heaven, I'm not going. ~Author Unknown
Fruit only angers my need for chocolate. ~Jason Love
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. ~Emily Luchetti
There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate. ~Linda Grayson, "The Pickwick Papers"
Man cannot live on chocolate alone, but woman sure can. ~Author Unknown
Fudge is a noun, a verb, an interjection, and delicious! ~Jessi Lane Adams
If there's no chocolate in heaven, I'm not going. ~Author Unknown
Fruit only angers my need for chocolate. ~Jason Love
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. ~Emily Luchetti
There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate. ~Linda Grayson, "The Pickwick Papers"
Man cannot live on chocolate alone, but woman sure can. ~Author Unknown
Fudge is a noun, a verb, an interjection, and delicious! ~Jessi Lane Adams
Money may talk, but chocolate sings. ~Author Unknown
Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally. So, eat lots of chocolate! -Elaine Sherman,
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate. ~Author Unknown
Chocolate is ground from the beans of happiness. ~Alexis F. Hope
After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. ~Mel Gibson, about what women want
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are.
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are.
God gave the angels wings, and he gave humans chocolate
Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.
Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.
I don't drown my sorrows; I suffocate them with chocolate chip cookies.
If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated.
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. ~Judith Viorst
Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. ~Lora Brody
Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight. ~Jason Love
If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage? ~Marquise de Sévigné
Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. ~Lora Brody
Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight. ~Jason Love
If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage? ~Marquise de Sévigné
Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge. ~Don Kardong
Crayons
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. ~Winston Churchill
My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but it's silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. ~Shel Silverstein
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. ~Allen Klein
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the eight-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the eight-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean, there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation, so when I meet someone who's an eight-color type I'm like, "hey girl, magenta!" and she's like, "oh, you mean purple!" and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, "no - I want magenta!" ~John Mayer
A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic. ~Bill Watterson
My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but it's silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. ~Shel Silverstein
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. ~Allen Klein
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the eight-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the eight-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean, there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation, so when I meet someone who's an eight-color type I'm like, "hey girl, magenta!" and she's like, "oh, you mean purple!" and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, "no - I want magenta!" ~John Mayer
A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic. ~Bill Watterson
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. ~Robert Fulghum
Confidence
Confidence is what you feel when you don't really understand the situation
Dreams
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. --William Dement
Dr. Seuss
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
~Dr. Seuss
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
~Dr. Seuss
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! ~Ted Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss
Exercise
You can't lose weight without exercise, but why should your legs suffer for what your mouth has done...Why don't you drag your lips around the block a couple of times?
I'm in shape ... round's a shape isn't it?
"You should exercise Garfield."
"I'm already so tired it hardly seems necessary..."
- Garfield, after a strenuous nap
- Garfield, after a strenuous nap
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy. Anna Quindlen
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
Family
Families are like fudge...mostly sweet, with a few nuts.
-- Source Unknown
-- Source Unknown
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.Jane Howard, "Families"
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'Jeff Foxworthy
If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child. ~Linda Sunshine
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five. ~Pam Brown
Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way. ~Pamela Dugdale
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. ~Pam Brown
It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on! ~Author Unknown
We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory. ~Evelyn Loeb
A friend is a brother who was once a bother. ~Author Unknown
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five. ~Pam Brown
Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way. ~Pamela Dugdale
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. ~Pam Brown
It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on! ~Author Unknown
We acquire friends and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory. ~Evelyn Loeb
A friend is a brother who was once a bother. ~Author Unknown
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~Ogden Nash
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck
Fashion
Of all the things you were, your expression is most important.
To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you. To be "in fashion" could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue.
I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. ~Gilda Radner
When in doubt, wear red. ~Bill Blass
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls;
Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;
Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in;
Dresses in which to do nothing at all;
Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.
~William Allen Butler, "Nothing to Wear
When in doubt, wear red. ~Bill Blass
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls;
Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;
Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in;
Dresses in which to do nothing at all;
Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.
~William Allen Butler, "Nothing to Wear
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman
Friends
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Friendship isn't a big thing, it's a million little things.
“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.
Short visits make long friends,
Brigham Young
Brigham Young
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
We all have bushels of acquaintances, but a friend is a rare commodity. That is because a real friend requires a commitment in time and energy.
Robert L. Backman
Robert L. Backman
Food
"Sigh. Got to go buy some food. A mouse hung itself in my fridge and left a note 'can't live like this'." — Ustas.
"Ingredients as fresh as they were 27 years ago." — Slogan of the Biscuitville restaurant.
"If life gives you a lemon, make lemonade. However — if life gives you a pickle, you might as well give up, because pickle-ade is disgusting." — Clifton J. Gray.
"And, of course, the funniest food of all: 'Kumquats'." — George Carlin.
"Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break." — Lev L. Spiro
"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." — Jonathan Swift (1667—1745), Irish-born Anglican priest and writer.
"Gourmet /n./ Anyone whom, when you fail to finish something strange or revolting, remarks that it's an acquired taste and that you're leaving the best part."
"Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of ? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners !" — Roald Dahl (1916-90), Norwegian writer.
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'..." — Gary Larson, The Far Side.
"Ingredients as fresh as they were 27 years ago." — Slogan of the Biscuitville restaurant.
"If life gives you a lemon, make lemonade. However — if life gives you a pickle, you might as well give up, because pickle-ade is disgusting." — Clifton J. Gray.
"And, of course, the funniest food of all: 'Kumquats'." — George Carlin.
"Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break." — Lev L. Spiro
"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." — Jonathan Swift (1667—1745), Irish-born Anglican priest and writer.
"Gourmet /n./ Anyone whom, when you fail to finish something strange or revolting, remarks that it's an acquired taste and that you're leaving the best part."
"Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of ? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners !" — Roald Dahl (1916-90), Norwegian writer.
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'..." — Gary Larson, The Far Side.
"There are many paths to enlightenment. Sadly, none of them involve pizza" --RonRon Shubadi
Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
I don't want to live in a world where I have to eat sugar-free sugar cookies.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,
Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?
Tom Hanks
I don't want to live in a world where I have to eat sugar-free sugar cookies.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,
Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?
Tom Hanks
It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.
Adam Scott,
Adam Scott,
Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
James Beard
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Julia Child
Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
James Beard
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Julia Child
It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat. ~Robert Fuoss
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story
After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~Miss Piggy
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. ~Alfred E. Newman
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. ~George Bernard Shaw
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. ~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat. ~Author Unknown
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? ~Bill Bryson
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. ~Will Rogers
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story
After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. ~Miss Piggy
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. ~Alfred E. Newman
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. ~George Bernard Shaw
I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. ~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat. ~Author Unknown
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? ~Bill Bryson
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. ~Will Rogers
I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~Jason Love
A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit. ~Author Unknown
I keep trying to lose weight... but it keeps finding me! ~Author Unknown
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. ~Herbert B. Prochnow
I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. ~Shelley Winters
A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit. ~Author Unknown
I keep trying to lose weight... but it keeps finding me! ~Author Unknown
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. ~Herbert B. Prochnow
I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. ~Shelley Winters
As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again. ~Leslie Newman
Heroes
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers
John Barth
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers
Home
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
Herman Melville
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
John Howard Payne
A good home must be made, not bought.
Joyce Maynard,
My home is not a place, it is people.
Lois McMaster Bujold,
Herman Melville
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
John Howard Payne
A good home must be made, not bought.
Joyce Maynard,
My home is not a place, it is people.
Lois McMaster Bujold,
Ice Cream
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. ~Jim Fiebig
Ice cream is happiness condensed. ~Jessi Lane Adams
I don't think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while. ~John Gould
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day. ~The Quote Garden
Unless your name ends in Baskin or Robbins, I really can't fit you into my schedule right now. ~Uniek Swain
Ice cream is happiness condensed. ~Jessi Lane Adams
I don't think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while. ~John Gould
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day. ~The Quote Garden
Unless your name ends in Baskin or Robbins, I really can't fit you into my schedule right now. ~Uniek Swain
Learning
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. --Larry Leissner
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. --P. J. O'Rourke
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
Don Wood
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
Memory feeds imagination.
Amy Tan
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Brenda Ueland
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles F. Kettering
Don Wood
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
Memory feeds imagination.
Amy Tan
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Brenda Ueland
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles F. Kettering
Careful. We don't want to learn from this. Bill Watterson
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Bill Watterson
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. Bill Watterson
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Bill Watterson
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. Bill Watterson
"Oh, no, not another learning experience!"
Anyone who isn't confused here doesn't really know what's going on.
That that is is. Why is this thus ? What is the reason for this thusness ? Artemus Ward
You can send me to school but you can't make me think.
I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma.
-the Wizard of Oz
I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma.
-the Wizard of Oz
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
-Abraham Lincoln
-Abraham Lincoln
That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
-Moliere
Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
-Benjamin Franklin
-Moliere
Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
-Benjamin Franklin
Life
I know life isn't fair. I just wish it wouldn't cheat so much
Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.-- Brian Andreas
Every day of your life is a page of your history.
-- Bo-Bunny Press
-- Bo-Bunny Press
Movie, TV, and Comics Quotes
I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe. --Marcus, Babylon 5
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. ~ Albus Dumbledore
In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own. ~ Albus Dumbledore
It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. ~J.K. Rowling,
Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ~J.K. Rowling
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed. ~J.K. Rowling,
There are no personal problems which cannot be solved through suitable application of high explosives. Bill Watterson
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. Bill Watterson
Reality continues to ruin my life. Bill Watterson
In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. Bill Watterson
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. Bill Watterson
Its no use! Everybody gets good enemies except me. Bill Watterson
As a math atheist, I should be excused from this. Bill Watterson
This one's tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen ... Bill Watterson
I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ... Procrastinating and rationalizing. Bill Watterson
I have a hammer! I can put things together! I can knock things apart! I can alter my environment at will and make an incredible din all the while! Ah, it's great to be male! Bill Watterson
Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius.
Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you?
Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
Calvin : You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes : What mood is that?
Calvin : Last-minute panic.
"Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? ...I gotta get my life some writers." Bill Watterson
"I'm a simple man, Hobbes."
"You?? Yesterday you wanted a nuclear powered car that could turn into a jet with laser-guided heat-seeking missiles!"
"I'm a simple man with complex tastes." Bill Watterson
"See Any UFOs?"
"Not yet."
"Well, keep your eyes open, they're bound to land here sometime."
"What will we do when they come?"
"See if we can sell mom and dad into slavery for a star cruiser" Bill Watterson
"My powerful brain has come up with a topic for my paper"
"Great"
"I'll write about the debate over Tyrannosaurs. Were they fearsome predators or disgusting scavengers?"
"Which side will you defend?"
"Oh, I believe they were fearsome predators, definitely."
"How come?"
"They're *so* much cooler that way"
Bill Watterson
"I'm not going todo my maths homework. Look at these unsolved problems. Here's a number in mortal combat with another. One of them is going to get subtracted. But why? What will be left of him? If I answered these, it would kill the suspense. It would resolve the conflict and turn intriguing possibilities into boring old facts."
"I never really thought about the literary possibilities of maths."
"I prefer to savour the mystery." Bill Watterson
Susie: You'd get a good grade without doing any work.
Calvin: So?
Susie: It's wrong to get rewards you haven't earned.
Calvin: I've never heard of anyone who couldn't live with that. Bill Watterson
"Bad news Dad. Your polls are way down."
"My polls?"
"You rate especially low among tigers and six year old white males." Bill Watterson
"Mom's not feeling well. So I'm making her a get well card."
"That's thoughtful of you."
"See, on the front it says, 'Get Well Soon' ... and on the inside it says,'Because me bed isn't made, my clothes need to be put away and I'm hungry. Love Calvin.' Want to sign it?"
"Sure, I'm hungry too" Bill Watterson
H : "What do you think is the secret to happiness? Is it money, power or fame?"
C : "I'd choose money. If you have enough money, you can buy fame and power. That way you'r have it all and be really happy. Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess."
H : "I suppose thats *one* way to define it."
C : "The part I think I'd like best is crushing people who get in my way." Bill Watterson
Dear Santa. Why is your operation located at the North Pole? I'm guessing cheap elf labour, lower environmental standards, and tax breaks. Is this really the example you want to set for us impressionable kids? ...My plan is to put him on the defensive before he considers how good I've been. Bill Watterson
"MOM, CAN I SET FIRE TO MY BED MATTRESS?"
"No, Calvin."
"CAN I RIDE MY TRICYCLE ON THE ROOF?"
"No, Calvin."
"Then can I have a cookie?"
"No, Calvin."
"She's on to me." Bill Watterson
"What state do you live in?"
"Denial." - Miss Wormwood & Calvin Bill Watterson
"Dad, I'd like to have a little talk."
"Um...ok."
"As the wage earner here, its your responsibility to show some consumer confidence and start buying things that will get the economy going and create profits and employment. Here's a list of some big-ticket items I'd like for Christmas. I hope I can trust you to do whats right for our country."
"I've got to stop leaving the Wall Street Journal around." Bill Watterson
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. Bill Watterson
Hobbes : "Do you think there's a God?
Calvin : "Well somebody's out to get me!"
Bill Watterson
Calvin : "Do you really think Bogeymen exist?"
Hobbes : "I'm not sure, but if they do, I think this is where they live…" Bill Watterson
"The world isn't fair, Calvin."
"I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favour?" Bill Watterson
"Too bad the world will be ending soon."
"Beg your pardon?"
"Halley's Comet. Comets are harbingers of doom."
"No they arent, thats just superstition."
"Really? Guess I'd better write that book report."
Bill Watterson
"Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isnt going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon.
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?" Bill Watterson
Today my spirit is going to school while my body stays in bed. Bill Watterson
I have plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it. Bill Watterson
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. Bill Watterson
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. Bill Watterson
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport. Bill Watterson
Failures are very public, and successes are short lived. It's the pleasure of drawing funny pictures that makes up for it. Bill Watterson
If we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. Bill Watterson
How come I always get blamed for everything I do ? Dennis the Menace
How can he already have a headache? I just got here! Dennis the Menace
I am giving you the right answers! You're just asking the wrong questions. Dennis the Menace
I bet if I sat right here in the tub 'til tomorrow, I'd havta take another bath ! Dennis the Menace
I didn't fib! I made a Fable, like Aesop an' those other guys ! Dennis the Menace
If I have to sit in the corner for sayin' it, at least you could tell me what it means ! Dennis the Menace
If you dreamed it was Christmas, and you woke up and it wasn't ... you'd be too disgusted to get out of bed, too ! Dennis the Menace
Mom forgets I been lookin' for cookies just as long as she's been hidin' them. Dennis the Menace
No use arguin' with her. She always has the first an' last word... an' all the ones between. Dennis the Menace
The best thing you can do is get good at being you. Dennis the Menace
Anybody can exercise... But this kind of lethargy takes real discipline. Garfield
Avoid fruits and nuts: after all, you are what you eat. Garfield
Eat every meal as though it were your last. Garfield
Good times are ahead ! Or behind. Because they sure aren't here. Garfield
His I.Q. is so low you can't test it. You have to dig for it. Garfield
I am hungry. Therefore I am. Garfield
I eat too much because I'm depressed, and I'm depressed because I eat too much. It's a vicious circle... that took years to perfect! Garfield
I shall now attempt to eat a diet lunch consisting of one leaf of lettuce lightly seasoned with ... one quart of Mayonnaise ! Garfield
I'm not messy. I'm organizationally challenged ! Garfield
If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen ! Garfield
If you want to appear smarter, hang around someone stupider. Garfield
Odie, let's talk effort versus return here. You know, you can still lead a pointless life without all that running around. Garfield
Oh no! I overslept ! I'm late ! For my nap. Garfield
You know what is a "diet" is, don't you? It's "die" with a "t," that's what it is! Garfield
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed. Charles M. Schultz
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope. Charles M. Schultz
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. Charles M. Schultz
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. Charles M. Schultz
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M. Schultz
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. Charles M. Schultz
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. Charles M. Schultz
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. Charles M. Schultz
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? Charles M. Schultz
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. Charles M. Schultz
No problem is too big to run away from. Charles M. Schultz
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schultz
Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational. Charles M. Schultz
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. Charles M. Schultz
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. Bill Watterson
Reality continues to ruin my life. Bill Watterson
In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. Bill Watterson
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. Bill Watterson
Its no use! Everybody gets good enemies except me. Bill Watterson
As a math atheist, I should be excused from this. Bill Watterson
This one's tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen ... Bill Watterson
I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ... Procrastinating and rationalizing. Bill Watterson
I have a hammer! I can put things together! I can knock things apart! I can alter my environment at will and make an incredible din all the while! Ah, it's great to be male! Bill Watterson
Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius.
Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you?
Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
Calvin : You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes : What mood is that?
Calvin : Last-minute panic.
"Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? ...I gotta get my life some writers." Bill Watterson
"I'm a simple man, Hobbes."
"You?? Yesterday you wanted a nuclear powered car that could turn into a jet with laser-guided heat-seeking missiles!"
"I'm a simple man with complex tastes." Bill Watterson
"See Any UFOs?"
"Not yet."
"Well, keep your eyes open, they're bound to land here sometime."
"What will we do when they come?"
"See if we can sell mom and dad into slavery for a star cruiser" Bill Watterson
"My powerful brain has come up with a topic for my paper"
"Great"
"I'll write about the debate over Tyrannosaurs. Were they fearsome predators or disgusting scavengers?"
"Which side will you defend?"
"Oh, I believe they were fearsome predators, definitely."
"How come?"
"They're *so* much cooler that way"
Bill Watterson
"I'm not going todo my maths homework. Look at these unsolved problems. Here's a number in mortal combat with another. One of them is going to get subtracted. But why? What will be left of him? If I answered these, it would kill the suspense. It would resolve the conflict and turn intriguing possibilities into boring old facts."
"I never really thought about the literary possibilities of maths."
"I prefer to savour the mystery." Bill Watterson
Susie: You'd get a good grade without doing any work.
Calvin: So?
Susie: It's wrong to get rewards you haven't earned.
Calvin: I've never heard of anyone who couldn't live with that. Bill Watterson
"Bad news Dad. Your polls are way down."
"My polls?"
"You rate especially low among tigers and six year old white males." Bill Watterson
"Mom's not feeling well. So I'm making her a get well card."
"That's thoughtful of you."
"See, on the front it says, 'Get Well Soon' ... and on the inside it says,'Because me bed isn't made, my clothes need to be put away and I'm hungry. Love Calvin.' Want to sign it?"
"Sure, I'm hungry too" Bill Watterson
H : "What do you think is the secret to happiness? Is it money, power or fame?"
C : "I'd choose money. If you have enough money, you can buy fame and power. That way you'r have it all and be really happy. Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess."
H : "I suppose thats *one* way to define it."
C : "The part I think I'd like best is crushing people who get in my way." Bill Watterson
Dear Santa. Why is your operation located at the North Pole? I'm guessing cheap elf labour, lower environmental standards, and tax breaks. Is this really the example you want to set for us impressionable kids? ...My plan is to put him on the defensive before he considers how good I've been. Bill Watterson
"MOM, CAN I SET FIRE TO MY BED MATTRESS?"
"No, Calvin."
"CAN I RIDE MY TRICYCLE ON THE ROOF?"
"No, Calvin."
"Then can I have a cookie?"
"No, Calvin."
"She's on to me." Bill Watterson
"What state do you live in?"
"Denial." - Miss Wormwood & Calvin Bill Watterson
"Dad, I'd like to have a little talk."
"Um...ok."
"As the wage earner here, its your responsibility to show some consumer confidence and start buying things that will get the economy going and create profits and employment. Here's a list of some big-ticket items I'd like for Christmas. I hope I can trust you to do whats right for our country."
"I've got to stop leaving the Wall Street Journal around." Bill Watterson
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. Bill Watterson
Hobbes : "Do you think there's a God?
Calvin : "Well somebody's out to get me!"
Bill Watterson
Calvin : "Do you really think Bogeymen exist?"
Hobbes : "I'm not sure, but if they do, I think this is where they live…" Bill Watterson
"The world isn't fair, Calvin."
"I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favour?" Bill Watterson
"Too bad the world will be ending soon."
"Beg your pardon?"
"Halley's Comet. Comets are harbingers of doom."
"No they arent, thats just superstition."
"Really? Guess I'd better write that book report."
Bill Watterson
"Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isnt going out. He says its colder because the earth's orbit is taking us farther from the sun. He says winter will be here soon.
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?" Bill Watterson
Today my spirit is going to school while my body stays in bed. Bill Watterson
I have plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it. Bill Watterson
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. Bill Watterson
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. Bill Watterson
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport. Bill Watterson
Failures are very public, and successes are short lived. It's the pleasure of drawing funny pictures that makes up for it. Bill Watterson
If we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. Bill Watterson
How come I always get blamed for everything I do ? Dennis the Menace
How can he already have a headache? I just got here! Dennis the Menace
I am giving you the right answers! You're just asking the wrong questions. Dennis the Menace
I bet if I sat right here in the tub 'til tomorrow, I'd havta take another bath ! Dennis the Menace
I didn't fib! I made a Fable, like Aesop an' those other guys ! Dennis the Menace
If I have to sit in the corner for sayin' it, at least you could tell me what it means ! Dennis the Menace
If you dreamed it was Christmas, and you woke up and it wasn't ... you'd be too disgusted to get out of bed, too ! Dennis the Menace
Mom forgets I been lookin' for cookies just as long as she's been hidin' them. Dennis the Menace
No use arguin' with her. She always has the first an' last word... an' all the ones between. Dennis the Menace
The best thing you can do is get good at being you. Dennis the Menace
Anybody can exercise... But this kind of lethargy takes real discipline. Garfield
Avoid fruits and nuts: after all, you are what you eat. Garfield
Eat every meal as though it were your last. Garfield
Good times are ahead ! Or behind. Because they sure aren't here. Garfield
His I.Q. is so low you can't test it. You have to dig for it. Garfield
I am hungry. Therefore I am. Garfield
I eat too much because I'm depressed, and I'm depressed because I eat too much. It's a vicious circle... that took years to perfect! Garfield
I shall now attempt to eat a diet lunch consisting of one leaf of lettuce lightly seasoned with ... one quart of Mayonnaise ! Garfield
I'm not messy. I'm organizationally challenged ! Garfield
If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen ! Garfield
If you want to appear smarter, hang around someone stupider. Garfield
Odie, let's talk effort versus return here. You know, you can still lead a pointless life without all that running around. Garfield
Oh no! I overslept ! I'm late ! For my nap. Garfield
You know what is a "diet" is, don't you? It's "die" with a "t," that's what it is! Garfield
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed. Charles M. Schultz
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope. Charles M. Schultz
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. Charles M. Schultz
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. Charles M. Schultz
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M. Schultz
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. Charles M. Schultz
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. Charles M. Schultz
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. Charles M. Schultz
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? Charles M. Schultz
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. Charles M. Schultz
No problem is too big to run away from. Charles M. Schultz
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schultz
Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational. Charles M. Schultz
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. Charles M. Schultz
"If Will E. Coyote had enough money for all that Acme crap, why didn't he just buy dinner ?"
Pinky: "Wot now, Brain?"
Brain: "We should flee in terror. Yes, that would be the wisest course!"
Brain: "Now, Pinky, if by any chance you are captured during this mission, remember you are Gunther Heindriksen from Appenzell. You moved to Grindelwald to drive the cog train to Murren. Can you repeat that?"
Pinky: "Mmmm, no, Brain, don't think I can."
Brain: "I am not devoid of humour."
Pinky: "Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"
Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!"
Brain: "I'm a laboratory mouse in the first stages of an elaborate plan to take over the world."
Brain: "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
Pinky: "Yeah, I think so, Brain, but I can't memorise the whole opera in yiddish."
Brain: "Pinky, you are a threat to tolerance."
Brain : "I shall pollute the water supply with this DNAdefibuliser, turning everyone into mindless slaves."
Pinky : "What about the people who drink bottled water?"
Brain : "Pinky, people who pay 5 dollars for a bottle of water are already mindless slaves."
Brain : "Accepting my own errors, the team needs balance. Balance, yes. Therefore, to successfully take over the world, a sacrifice must be made. One of us must be an imbecile."
"Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but me and Pippi Longstocking -- I mean, what would the children look like?"
- The Brain and Pinky,
"I mean, really, when have I ever been pondering what you've been pondering? So, what are the chances that this time, I'm pondering what you're pondering?"
"Next to nil."
"Well, that's exactly what I'm thinking, too."
"Therefore, you *are* pondering what I'm pondering..."
- Pinky and The Brain
"The penguins are going, so why can't I?"
"Marty, the penguins are psychotic."
- Marty the Zebra and Alex the Lion, "Madagascar"
"I'm gonna kill you, Marty! And strangle you! Then I'm gonna bury you, then dig you up and clone you, and kill all your clones!"
"20-second time-out!"
"And then I'm never talking to you again!"
- Alex and Marty, "Madagascar
Pinky: "Wot now, Brain?"
Brain: "We should flee in terror. Yes, that would be the wisest course!"
Brain: "Now, Pinky, if by any chance you are captured during this mission, remember you are Gunther Heindriksen from Appenzell. You moved to Grindelwald to drive the cog train to Murren. Can you repeat that?"
Pinky: "Mmmm, no, Brain, don't think I can."
Brain: "I am not devoid of humour."
Pinky: "Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"
Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!"
Brain: "I'm a laboratory mouse in the first stages of an elaborate plan to take over the world."
Brain: "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
Pinky: "Yeah, I think so, Brain, but I can't memorise the whole opera in yiddish."
Brain: "Pinky, you are a threat to tolerance."
Brain : "I shall pollute the water supply with this DNAdefibuliser, turning everyone into mindless slaves."
Pinky : "What about the people who drink bottled water?"
Brain : "Pinky, people who pay 5 dollars for a bottle of water are already mindless slaves."
Brain : "Accepting my own errors, the team needs balance. Balance, yes. Therefore, to successfully take over the world, a sacrifice must be made. One of us must be an imbecile."
"Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but me and Pippi Longstocking -- I mean, what would the children look like?"
- The Brain and Pinky,
"I mean, really, when have I ever been pondering what you've been pondering? So, what are the chances that this time, I'm pondering what you're pondering?"
"Next to nil."
"Well, that's exactly what I'm thinking, too."
"Therefore, you *are* pondering what I'm pondering..."
- Pinky and The Brain
"The penguins are going, so why can't I?"
"Marty, the penguins are psychotic."
- Marty the Zebra and Alex the Lion, "Madagascar"
"I'm gonna kill you, Marty! And strangle you! Then I'm gonna bury you, then dig you up and clone you, and kill all your clones!"
"20-second time-out!"
"And then I'm never talking to you again!"
- Alex and Marty, "Madagascar
"I don't exist to serve you!"
"Sad... so your life has no meaning at all..."
- Jon and Garfield, "Garfield"
"Sad... so your life has no meaning at all..."
- Jon and Garfield, "Garfield"
Mushu: Did you see those Huns? They popped out of the snow, like daisies!
The Grinch: The nerve of those Whos. Inviting me down there - and on such short notice. Even if I wanted to go my schedule wouldn't allow it. Four o'clock, wallow in self pity; 4:30, stare into the abyss; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one. 5:30, jazzercize. 6:30, dinner with me. I can't cancel that again. 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing; I'm booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9 I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness. But what would I wear?
Cindy Lou Who: Everybody seems to kerbabbled. Isn't this just a little superfluous?
The Grinch: Am I just eating because I'm bored?
The Grinch: Am I just eating because I'm bored?
Brigader Lethbridge-Stewart in "Dr. Who"
Are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet?
- Donkey
The kingdom of FAR FAR Away, Donkey? That's where we're going! FAR! FAR!... away.
- Shrek
I'm sorry, the position of annoying talking animal has already been filled.
- Donkey
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent. What you lack, is the capacity.
- Shrek
Gracie Hart: I am in a dress, I have gel in my hair, I haven't slept all night, I'm starved, AND I'm armed! Don't MESS with me
Are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet?
- Donkey
The kingdom of FAR FAR Away, Donkey? That's where we're going! FAR! FAR!... away.
- Shrek
I'm sorry, the position of annoying talking animal has already been filled.
- Donkey
Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent. What you lack, is the capacity.
- Shrek
Gracie Hart: I am in a dress, I have gel in my hair, I haven't slept all night, I'm starved, AND I'm armed! Don't MESS with me
"Reach for the sky!" - Woody, Andy's toy.
"Why would Andy want you? Look at you! You're a Buzz Lightyear! Any other toy would give his moving parts just to be you! You are a cool toy."
- Woody to Buzz from Toy Story.
"If you think we're waxworks, you ought to pay, don't you know."
"Contrariwise, If you think we're alive, you ought to speak to us."
- Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, lecturing Alice on manners after she mistakes them for statues.
"The first thing in a visit is to state your name and business. Then shake hands."
- Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum from Alice in Wonderland
"Well! After this, I shall think nothing of falling down the stairs!"
- Alice, while floating down a long tunnel.
"Nothing's impossible."
- Doorknob from Alice in Wonderland
Timon: "Who's the brains in this outfit?"
Pumbaa: "Uhh..."
Timon: "My point exactly"
- Timon, brilliantly proving his point to Pumbaa.
"SHE'S GONNA EAT ME!"
- Pumbaa from The Lion King
"Even miracles take a little time."
- The Fairy Godmother
"Oh, well, what's a royal ball? I suppose it would be frightfully dull, and boring, and completely... completely wonderful." - Cinderella
"Love, ha! Just a boy and a girl meeting under the right conditions..... So, we're arranging the right conditions."
- Prince Charming's father,
"Hmm! Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch and they swim all over you!" - Sebastian the crab.
"Swell, just what I need, a couple of rodents looking for a theme park."
- Megara,
"I am a damsel, (struggling) I am in distress. I can handle this! (politely) Have a nice day!"
- Megara to Hercules,
Panic: "Hades is gonna kill us when he finds out what happened."
Pain: "You mean, *if* he finds out!"
Panic: "Of course he's gonna fi-- If.. if is good."
"You, sir are stuck. A wedged bear in a great tightness. In a word: irremovable."
- Owl, to Winnie the Pooh
"Why would Andy want you? Look at you! You're a Buzz Lightyear! Any other toy would give his moving parts just to be you! You are a cool toy."
- Woody to Buzz from Toy Story.
"If you think we're waxworks, you ought to pay, don't you know."
"Contrariwise, If you think we're alive, you ought to speak to us."
- Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum, lecturing Alice on manners after she mistakes them for statues.
"The first thing in a visit is to state your name and business. Then shake hands."
- Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum from Alice in Wonderland
"Well! After this, I shall think nothing of falling down the stairs!"
- Alice, while floating down a long tunnel.
"Nothing's impossible."
- Doorknob from Alice in Wonderland
Timon: "Who's the brains in this outfit?"
Pumbaa: "Uhh..."
Timon: "My point exactly"
- Timon, brilliantly proving his point to Pumbaa.
"SHE'S GONNA EAT ME!"
- Pumbaa from The Lion King
"Even miracles take a little time."
- The Fairy Godmother
"Oh, well, what's a royal ball? I suppose it would be frightfully dull, and boring, and completely... completely wonderful." - Cinderella
"Love, ha! Just a boy and a girl meeting under the right conditions..... So, we're arranging the right conditions."
- Prince Charming's father,
"Hmm! Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch and they swim all over you!" - Sebastian the crab.
"Swell, just what I need, a couple of rodents looking for a theme park."
- Megara,
"I am a damsel, (struggling) I am in distress. I can handle this! (politely) Have a nice day!"
- Megara to Hercules,
Panic: "Hades is gonna kill us when he finds out what happened."
Pain: "You mean, *if* he finds out!"
Panic: "Of course he's gonna fi-- If.. if is good."
"You, sir are stuck. A wedged bear in a great tightness. In a word: irremovable."
- Owl, to Winnie the Pooh
Tantor: "Are you sure this water's sanitary? It looks questionable to me...."
"What about the bacteria?"
This is going to turn out to be some freaky ritualistic thing, isn't it"
-Dr. Saroyan
-Dr. Saroyan
"I've seen this movie, I get killed on the way home"
-Dr. Jack Hodgins
-Dr. Jack Hodgins
"Dude, what you call being a conspiracy theorist I call being well informed"
-Dr. Jack Hodgins
"You look like a weekend fill-in at a college radio station"
-Dr. Saroyan
"Truth hurts dude, learn from it and grow"
-Dr. Jack Hodgins
-Dr. Jack Hodgins
"You look like a weekend fill-in at a college radio station"
-Dr. Saroyan
"Truth hurts dude, learn from it and grow"
-Dr. Jack Hodgins
Lightning McQueen: You know her?
Mater: Yep, she's the town attorney and my fiancee.
Lightning McQueen: Really?
Mater: Naw, she just likes me for my body.
Mater: I knowed it, I knowed I made a good choice.
Lightining McQueen: In what?
Mater: My best friend.
Sheriff: Mater! What did I tell you about talking to the accused?
Mater: To not to.
Mater: What's your name?
Lightning McQueen: You... you don't know my name?
Mater: No, uh... no, I know your name. Is your name Mater too?
Filmore: I'm tellin' ya, man, every third blink is slower.
Sarge: The '60s weren't very good to you, were they?
Mater: Yep, she's the town attorney and my fiancee.
Lightning McQueen: Really?
Mater: Naw, she just likes me for my body.
Mater: I knowed it, I knowed I made a good choice.
Lightining McQueen: In what?
Mater: My best friend.
Sheriff: Mater! What did I tell you about talking to the accused?
Mater: To not to.
Mater: What's your name?
Lightning McQueen: You... you don't know my name?
Mater: No, uh... no, I know your name. Is your name Mater too?
Filmore: I'm tellin' ya, man, every third blink is slower.
Sarge: The '60s weren't very good to you, were they?
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J. R. R. Tolkien
It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. Tolkien
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
-- Charles Shulz
-- Charles Shulz
Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.
Brigader Lethbridge-Stewart in "Dr. Who"
Prayer
Let your first 'Good Morning' be to your Father in Heaven.
Karl G. Maeser
Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.
We have really learned how to pray when we realize that prayer is a privilege rather than a duty.
Karl G. Maeser
Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.
We have really learned how to pray when we realize that prayer is a privilege rather than a duty.
One night a father overheard his son pray:
'Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is.'
Later that night, the Father prayed,
'Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.'
'Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is.'
Later that night, the Father prayed,
'Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.'
I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
Socrates
Socrates
Prayer is the passport to spiritual power.
Reason For The Journey
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman
A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.
We may run, walk, stumble, drive or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey.
The closer we come to God, the closer we come together.
14th Article of Faith
We believe in meetings - all that have been scheduled, all that are now scheduled, and we believe that there will yet be scheduled many great and important meetings. We have endured many meetings and hope to to be able to endure all meetings. Indeed we may say that if there is a meeting, or anything that resembles a meeting, or anything that we might possibly turn into a meeting, we seek after these things.
Mary Ellen Edmunds
We believe in meetings - all that have been scheduled, all that are now scheduled, and we believe that there will yet be scheduled many great and important meetings. We have endured many meetings and hope to to be able to endure all meetings. Indeed we may say that if there is a meeting, or anything that resembles a meeting, or anything that we might possibly turn into a meeting, we seek after these things.
Mary Ellen Edmunds
I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life.
God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.
In thought, faith
In word, wisdom
In deed, courage
In life, service
In word, wisdom
In deed, courage
In life, service
God gave us a memory so we could have roses in December.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Brigham Young
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Stephen R. Covey
Brigham Young
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Stephen R. Covey
You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads
The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.
God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys of creation.
Thomas S. Monson
God grant us faith to stand on guard,
uncheered, unspoke, alone.
And see behind such duty hard
our service to the throne.
What e're our task, be this our creed;
We are on earth to fill a need.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do in our own?
Brigham Young
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
L A Rouchefolicauld
What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.
David O. McKay
Before you flare up at anyone's faults, take time to count ten....of your own.
a Pentecostal Evangelist
Thomas S. Monson
God grant us faith to stand on guard,
uncheered, unspoke, alone.
And see behind such duty hard
our service to the throne.
What e're our task, be this our creed;
We are on earth to fill a need.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do in our own?
Brigham Young
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
L A Rouchefolicauld
What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.
David O. McKay
Before you flare up at anyone's faults, take time to count ten....of your own.
a Pentecostal Evangelist
I'd rather see a sermon that hear one any day; I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
David O. McKay
David O. McKay
When God measures man, He puts the tape around the heart, not the head.
How foolish we would be to fail to enjoy the rich gifts of God to us! We could well miss opportunities for providing needed blessings to others because we felt personally deprived of some hoped-for blessing and were blinded by our own self-pity. Not only should we be careful not to deprive others of blessings because of our wanderings in the wastelands of self-pity or self- recrimination, but we should be careful not to deprive ourselves of other blessings that could be ours. While Waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.
Howard W. Hunter Satellite address to single adults, February 26, 1989
Howard W. Hunter Satellite address to single adults, February 26, 1989
No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.
Bruce R. McConkie
A testimony isn't something you have today and will always have.
A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam.
It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.
Truth is it's own witness.
J.Richard Clarke
There are only two things we need to testify to;
Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God, and The Book of Mormon is the word of God.
Ezra Taft Benson
The possession of a sure testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.
Marion G. Romney
Bruce R. McConkie
A testimony isn't something you have today and will always have.
A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam.
It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.
Truth is it's own witness.
J.Richard Clarke
There are only two things we need to testify to;
Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God, and The Book of Mormon is the word of God.
Ezra Taft Benson
The possession of a sure testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.
Marion G. Romney
“The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown.” Attributed to Linda Ellerbee, Ann Richards, and Faith Whittlesey
Relationships
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
-Heinrich Heine
-Heinrich Heine
I like being single. I'm usually there when I need me.
I'm not playing hard to get, I am hard to get.
I think, therefore I'm single.
I don't require that a frog turn into a prince when I kiss him. I just don't want him turning into a turkey!
I don't require that a frog turn into a prince when I kiss him. I just don't want him turning into a turkey!
Before I heard the doctors tell
The dangers of a kiss;
I had considered kissing you
The nearest thing to bliss.
But now I know biology
and sit and sigh and moan;
Six million mad bacteria
and I thought we were alone!
Anonymous
1) Real love is realistic
2) Real love doesn't expect us to be mind readers
3) Love knows that it can't make life painless
4) Real love knows that it doesn't matter who is right
Fairy Tale Endings, Robert L. Backman
'I want to love you ... without clutching.
I want to appreciate you ... without judging.
I want to invite you ... without demanding.
I want to ask you ... without pleading.
I want to leave you ... without guilt feelings.
I want to join you ... without invading.
I want to criticize you ... without blaming.
I want to help you ... without insulting.
The dangers of a kiss;
I had considered kissing you
The nearest thing to bliss.
But now I know biology
and sit and sigh and moan;
Six million mad bacteria
and I thought we were alone!
Anonymous
1) Real love is realistic
2) Real love doesn't expect us to be mind readers
3) Love knows that it can't make life painless
4) Real love knows that it doesn't matter who is right
Fairy Tale Endings, Robert L. Backman
'I want to love you ... without clutching.
I want to appreciate you ... without judging.
I want to invite you ... without demanding.
I want to ask you ... without pleading.
I want to leave you ... without guilt feelings.
I want to join you ... without invading.
I want to criticize you ... without blaming.
I want to help you ... without insulting.
If I can have the same from you, we can meet and truly enrich each other.'
Dr. Virginia Satir
Dr. Virginia Satir
Smile; it the SECOND best thing one can do with one's lips.
Choose your love,
Love your choice.
Thomas S. Monson
Love your choice.
Thomas S. Monson
Random
“What a lovely fire. Kinda makes me wish we had a fireplace there.” - Garfield/Jim Davis
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. --Carl Zwanzig
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. --Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
"You are a total, total,...a word has yet to be invented to describe how totally whatever it is you are, but you are one and a total, total one at that!"
We're pathetic and we make no excuses!
The Procrastinator's Creed:
1. I believe that if anything is worth doing, it would have been done already.
2. I shall never move quickly, except to avoid more work or find excuses.
3. I will never rush into a job without a lifetime of consideration.
4. I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.
5. I firmly believe that tomorrow holds the possibility for new technologies, astounding discoveries, and a reprieve from my obligations.
6. I truly believe that all deadlines are unreasonable regardless of the amount of time given.
7. I shall never forget that the probability of a miracle, though infinitesmally small, is not exactly zero.
8. If at first I don't succeed, there is always next year.
9. I shall always decide not to decide, unless of course I decide to change my mind. \
10. I shall always begin, start, initiate, take the first step, and/or write the first word, when I get around to it.
11. I obey the law of inverse excuses which demands that the greater the task to be done, the more insignificant the work that must be done prior to beginning the greater task.
12. I know that the work cycle is not plan/start/finish, but is wait/plan/plan.
13. I will never put off until tomorrow, what I can forget about forever.
14. I will become a member of the ancient Order of Two-Headed Turtles (the Procrastinator's Society) if they ever get it organized.
The Procrastinator's Creed:
1. I believe that if anything is worth doing, it would have been done already.
2. I shall never move quickly, except to avoid more work or find excuses.
3. I will never rush into a job without a lifetime of consideration.
4. I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.
5. I firmly believe that tomorrow holds the possibility for new technologies, astounding discoveries, and a reprieve from my obligations.
6. I truly believe that all deadlines are unreasonable regardless of the amount of time given.
7. I shall never forget that the probability of a miracle, though infinitesmally small, is not exactly zero.
8. If at first I don't succeed, there is always next year.
9. I shall always decide not to decide, unless of course I decide to change my mind. \
10. I shall always begin, start, initiate, take the first step, and/or write the first word, when I get around to it.
11. I obey the law of inverse excuses which demands that the greater the task to be done, the more insignificant the work that must be done prior to beginning the greater task.
12. I know that the work cycle is not plan/start/finish, but is wait/plan/plan.
13. I will never put off until tomorrow, what I can forget about forever.
14. I will become a member of the ancient Order of Two-Headed Turtles (the Procrastinator's Society) if they ever get it organized.
I couldn't fix your brakes, so I made your horn LOUDER!
-- Source Unknown
Black Holes are where God divided by zero.
-- Source Unknown
Money Talks ... but all mine ever says is Goodbye!
-- Source Unknown
I'm not paranoid! Which of my enemies told you this?
-- Source Unknown
-- Source Unknown
Black Holes are where God divided by zero.
-- Source Unknown
Money Talks ... but all mine ever says is Goodbye!
-- Source Unknown
I'm not paranoid! Which of my enemies told you this?
-- Source Unknown
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
-- Mark Twain
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
-- Source Unknown
Dolphins: Don't trust a species that's always smiling, its up to something!
-- Source Unknown
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
-- Burt Bacharach
Hard work never hurt anyone, but why take the chance.
-- Source Unknown
1st rule of intelligent tinkering - save all the parts.
-- Source Unknown
I saw Elvis. He sat between me and Bigfoot on the UFO.
-- Source Unknown
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
-- Ronald Reagan
I am not the boss of my house. I don't know when I lost it. I don't know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not want it.
-- Bill Cosby
I either Get what I want or I change my mind.
-- Dreams For An Insomniac
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman
-- Mark Twain
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
-- Source Unknown
Dolphins: Don't trust a species that's always smiling, its up to something!
-- Source Unknown
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
-- Burt Bacharach
Hard work never hurt anyone, but why take the chance.
-- Source Unknown
1st rule of intelligent tinkering - save all the parts.
-- Source Unknown
I saw Elvis. He sat between me and Bigfoot on the UFO.
-- Source Unknown
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
-- Ronald Reagan
I am not the boss of my house. I don't know when I lost it. I don't know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not want it.
-- Bill Cosby
I either Get what I want or I change my mind.
-- Dreams For An Insomniac
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman
"Be alert, the world needs more lerts."
The first piece of luggage out of the chute does not belong to anyone, ever.
There is a 70% probability of tomorrow. (actual weatherman quote. 1988)
Why doesn't life come with subtitles?
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
-Lily Tomlin
Your lucky number is 364958674928. Watch for it everywhere.
There is a 70% probability of tomorrow. (actual weatherman quote. 1988)
Why doesn't life come with subtitles?
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
-Lily Tomlin
Your lucky number is 364958674928. Watch for it everywhere.
Once we've got the bugs ironed out, we'll be running on flat bugs.
For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like. Abraham Lincoln
I'm a walking economy - my hairline's in a recession, my waistline is a victim of inflation, both of which is putting me in a deep depression.
I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything.
It's illegal to use occupied clothing for target practice
I'm So Poor I Can't Even Pay Attention
Don't judge a book by its mini-series.
I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything.
It's illegal to use occupied clothing for target practice
I'm So Poor I Can't Even Pay Attention
Don't judge a book by its mini-series.
It's not that I MIND being chained in the basement ...
Cereal killer at large! Hide your rice crispies.
Conform and be dull.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Of course I don't look as busy as the men, I did it right the first time.
Why is it that the newspapers you spread on the floor to catch paint spills are such fascinating reading?
I've got what it takes but nobody wants it.
Never let reality spoil a good hallucination.
I paid too much for it, but its worth it.
Sometimes you just have to say 'What the heck'
They're coming to take me away, HA-HAAAA!
... llaW ehT ffO ,rorriM ,rorriM
...and never, ever cut a deal with a dragon.
...and never, ever cut a deal with a sprite.
...and remember, it's pillage first, THEN burn!
...and they lived happily ever after.
1 + 2 = 3; Therefore, 4 + 5 = 6.
Alex, I'll take "Things Only I Know" for $200.
Do I dare disturb the universe?
-T. S. Elliot
Are Cheerios really donut seeds?
Are those cookies made with real Girl Scouts?
As easy as 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841
Bad is never good until worse happens.
Be vewy vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits.
Being weird isn't enough.
Since I've used all my sick days....I'm calling in dead.
I've found my life's purpose...I'm a bad example for kids
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity
Boredom makes you do crazy things
Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
-Paul Harvey
Sometimes I wake up grouchy. Sometimes I just let him sleep.
Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.
Do it now! There may be a law against it tomorrow.
I am not perfect, but parts of me are excellent.
I have PLENTY of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
-Calvin & Hobbes
I've had a wonderful evening, this wasn't it
-Groucho Marks
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
I tell you this, and I tell you plain:
What you have done, you will do again;
You will bite your tongue, careful or not,
Upon the already-bitten spot.
~Mignon McLaughlin,
Conform and be dull.
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Of course I don't look as busy as the men, I did it right the first time.
Why is it that the newspapers you spread on the floor to catch paint spills are such fascinating reading?
I've got what it takes but nobody wants it.
Never let reality spoil a good hallucination.
I paid too much for it, but its worth it.
Sometimes you just have to say 'What the heck'
They're coming to take me away, HA-HAAAA!
... llaW ehT ffO ,rorriM ,rorriM
...and never, ever cut a deal with a dragon.
...and never, ever cut a deal with a sprite.
...and remember, it's pillage first, THEN burn!
...and they lived happily ever after.
1 + 2 = 3; Therefore, 4 + 5 = 6.
Alex, I'll take "Things Only I Know" for $200.
Do I dare disturb the universe?
-T. S. Elliot
Are Cheerios really donut seeds?
Are those cookies made with real Girl Scouts?
As easy as 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841
Bad is never good until worse happens.
Be vewy vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits.
Being weird isn't enough.
Since I've used all my sick days....I'm calling in dead.
I've found my life's purpose...I'm a bad example for kids
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity
Boredom makes you do crazy things
Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
-Paul Harvey
Sometimes I wake up grouchy. Sometimes I just let him sleep.
Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.
Do it now! There may be a law against it tomorrow.
I am not perfect, but parts of me are excellent.
I have PLENTY of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
-Calvin & Hobbes
I've had a wonderful evening, this wasn't it
-Groucho Marks
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
I tell you this, and I tell you plain:
What you have done, you will do again;
You will bite your tongue, careful or not,
Upon the already-bitten spot.
~Mignon McLaughlin,
I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. Anna Quindlen
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. Edward P. Tryon
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. Edward P. Tryon
"There" is no better than "here". When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here".
Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!
-Philander Johnson
Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.
-Allan Beck
I know why God made babies cute...so we won't kill 'em.
-Gallagher
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. Ashleigh Brilliant
-unknown
They have to take you in.
-Robert Frost
One boy is worth half a man Two boys are worth half a boy Three boys are no help at all.
-unknown
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
-Mark Twain
Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!
-Philander Johnson
Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.
-Allan Beck
I know why God made babies cute...so we won't kill 'em.
-Gallagher
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. Ashleigh Brilliant
-unknown
They have to take you in.
-Robert Frost
One boy is worth half a man Two boys are worth half a boy Three boys are no help at all.
-unknown
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
-Mark Twain
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), Valis
But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
Mitch Albom,
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.
Harold B. Lee
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
Mike Myers
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), An Unfinished Woman, 1969
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
John M. Ford
Everybody I know needs a complete personality overhaul! Bill Watterson
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
-Ed Howe
Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), Valis
But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
Mitch Albom,
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.
Harold B. Lee
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
Mike Myers
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did. Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), An Unfinished Woman, 1969
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
John M. Ford
Everybody I know needs a complete personality overhaul! Bill Watterson
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
-Ed Howe
"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;
because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;
for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
--Milton Berle
because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;
for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
--Milton Berle
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
~Melody Beattie
"The truth is such a delightful thing it is delightful to tell it."
~Emily Dickinson
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
~G.K. Chesterton
Here we are at the 21st century, but where's the world of the future we were always told about? Where are the flying cars? Where are the robots doing our housework? Where are the people zippingaround in jetpacks? I'm sorry, but clapping my lights on and off doesn't cut it.
radio advertisement
~Melody Beattie
"The truth is such a delightful thing it is delightful to tell it."
~Emily Dickinson
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
~G.K. Chesterton
Here we are at the 21st century, but where's the world of the future we were always told about? Where are the flying cars? Where are the robots doing our housework? Where are the people zippingaround in jetpacks? I'm sorry, but clapping my lights on and off doesn't cut it.
radio advertisement
"We cough to clear our throats.
We sigh to clear our hearts."
~T.S. Matthews
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
~Albert Einstein
"I love the man that can smile in trouble,
that can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection."
~Thomas Paine, "The Crisis"
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."
~Frank Lloyd Wright
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature,
he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
~John Muir, naturalist and writer
We sigh to clear our hearts."
~T.S. Matthews
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
~Albert Einstein
"I love the man that can smile in trouble,
that can gather strength from distress,
and grow brave by reflection."
~Thomas Paine, "The Crisis"
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."
~Frank Lloyd Wright
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature,
he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
~John Muir, naturalist and writer
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.
Anne Lamott
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don't know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion.
Colonel Flagg
How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck
Anne Lamott
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don't know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion.
Colonel Flagg
How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for six months.
Gordon Grey
Social tact is making a guest feel at home, when you really wish he was.
Before you give someone a piece of your mind, be sure you can get along with what you have left.
One good way to save face is to keep the lower half shut.
Tact is the art of thinking all you say, and not saying all you think.
Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you're trying to correct.
Tact is the ability to close your mouth before someone else wants to.
One day for church, six for fun; odds on going to heaven, six to one.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
unknown
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegy
Winning is not racking up a higher score. Winning is attaining a higher character.
Robert L. Backman
If you don't know how to succeed, first learn how to try to succeed. Then just keep trying.
Chris Edmunds
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J. G. C. Brainard
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion
If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for six months.
Gordon Grey
Social tact is making a guest feel at home, when you really wish he was.
Before you give someone a piece of your mind, be sure you can get along with what you have left.
One good way to save face is to keep the lower half shut.
Tact is the art of thinking all you say, and not saying all you think.
Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you're trying to correct.
Tact is the ability to close your mouth before someone else wants to.
One day for church, six for fun; odds on going to heaven, six to one.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
unknown
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegy
Winning is not racking up a higher score. Winning is attaining a higher character.
Robert L. Backman
If you don't know how to succeed, first learn how to try to succeed. Then just keep trying.
Chris Edmunds
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J. G. C. Brainard
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
Joan Didion
If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please.
unknown
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
Renan
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
unknown
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
unknown
Circumstances do not make a man, they simply reveal him to himself.
No individual snowflake ever felt any responsibility for an avalanche.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
unknown
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.
If you feel you have no faults, there's another one.
Most people give off as much heat as a 100 watt bulb, but not as much light.
unknown
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
Renan
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
unknown
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
unknown
Circumstances do not make a man, they simply reveal him to himself.
No individual snowflake ever felt any responsibility for an avalanche.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
unknown
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.
If you feel you have no faults, there's another one.
Most people give off as much heat as a 100 watt bulb, but not as much light.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendall Holmes
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
We all leave footprints in the sand, the question is, will we be a big heal, or a great soul.
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport the world has ever known.
Oliver Wendall Holmes
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
We all leave footprints in the sand, the question is, will we be a big heal, or a great soul.
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport the world has ever known.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
When someone says, 'That's a good question.' You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
When someone says, 'That's a good question.' You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Auldous Huxley
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
A wise old owl sat in an oak.
The longer he sat, the less he spoke.
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why can't we be like that wise old bird?
unknown
The longer he sat, the less he spoke.
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why can't we be like that wise old bird?
unknown
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
Wendell Johnson
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
Weinberg
On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the Escape key.
"I know you believe that you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I really meant to say."
"You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to even it out." — Why Yawning Is Contagious.
"Why is it called 'after dark', when it is really after light ?"
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
-- Errol Flynn
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
--Oscar Wilde
Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.
-- Batman Costume warning label
“Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.”
Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. Kim Lyons
Wendell Johnson
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
Weinberg
On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the Escape key.
"I know you believe that you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I really meant to say."
"You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to even it out." — Why Yawning Is Contagious.
"Why is it called 'after dark', when it is really after light ?"
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
-- Errol Flynn
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
--Oscar Wilde
Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly.
-- Batman Costume warning label
“Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.”
Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. Kim Lyons
People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do.-- Source Unknown
Well behaved women rarely make history-- Bo-Bunny Press
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
-- Victor Borge
Sir, you are like a pin, but without either its head or its point.
-- Douglas Jerrold
Travel is educational; it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.
-- S. Barry Lipkin
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
-- Elvis Costello
You know you're getting older when the candles cost more than the cake.
-- Bob Hope
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” Oscar Wilde
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. ~Author Unknown
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. ~C.E. Cowman
One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. ~G.M. Weilacher
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt:
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C. S. Lewis:
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? Jane Wagner:
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
Well behaved women rarely make history-- Bo-Bunny Press
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
-- Victor Borge
Sir, you are like a pin, but without either its head or its point.
-- Douglas Jerrold
Travel is educational; it teaches you how to get rid of money in a hurry.
-- S. Barry Lipkin
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
-- Elvis Costello
You know you're getting older when the candles cost more than the cake.
-- Bob Hope
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” Oscar Wilde
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant. ~Author Unknown
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. ~C.E. Cowman
One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. ~G.M. Weilacher
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt:
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C. S. Lewis:
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? Jane Wagner:
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
I just want what I want when I want it!-- Source Unknown
I like this place, and willingly could waste my time in it.-- William Shakespeare
Every princess needs a tiara...even if its made of plastic.-- Simply Sarah
Lipgloss...don't leave home without it-- Simply Sarah
I like this place, and willingly could waste my time in it.-- William Shakespeare
Every princess needs a tiara...even if its made of plastic.-- Simply Sarah
Lipgloss...don't leave home without it-- Simply Sarah
"Courage is the art of being the only one to know you're scared to death." ---Earl Wilson
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. --Will Rogers
Q: Do you know what the death rate around here is?
A: One per person.
Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport. --Graffiti
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. --Will Rogers
Q: Do you know what the death rate around here is?
A: One per person.
Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport. --Graffiti
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. --Akiro Kurosawa
"They say that behind every successful man stands a woman. Could it be that in front of that woman, stands a man who keeps getting in her way?"
"They say that behind every successful man stands a woman. Could it be that in front of that woman, stands a man who keeps getting in her way?"
"I have given up anarchy. Too many rules --- hating the government and all that stuff." --G.H. Hill
Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. --Nathaniel Hawthorne
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. --Jacob Riis
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. --Jessamyn West
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. -- Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)
"Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself."
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou
The nice part of living in a small town is that when I don't know what I'm doing, someone else does.
-- Source Unknown
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein
Last night the creative juices were flowing but today I am merely a vast wasteland of random thoughts.
-- Peckeroy
Laughter is an instant vacation.-- Milton Berle
