INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES June 2016

Sanderson

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. (Thomas Edison)

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. (Henry David Thoreau)

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion. (Tony Hsieh)

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. (Pat Riley)

Why fit in when you were born to stand out. (Dr. Suess)

Always smile. It makes people wonder that you're up to. (Mark Twain)

The world is a book, and he who stays at home reads only one page. (M. K. Frelinghuysen)

Maybe you can teach a turkey to climb a tree, but you're probably better off hiring a squirrel in the first place. (Kathy Murphy)

Animals have these advantages over man: They never hear the clock strike; they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. (Voltaire)

I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill. (Casey Stengel)

It's good to have an end to journey toward, but it's the journey that matters in the end. (Ursula LeGuin)

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. (Edward R. Murrow)

Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it. (Robert Plant)

I am kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (J. D. Salinger)

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. (Epictetus)

Youth is a frightening age ... so many problems, so little wisdom to solve them. (Walter Hoving)

One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. (Henry Ford)

Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. (Cyrus C. Geikie)

Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. (William Vanderbilt)

In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others." (Menander)

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle)

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. (Herbert Willis)

Do not say all you know, for he who says all he knows often says more than he knows. (Persian proverb)

You must look into other people as well as at them. (Lord Chesterfield)

Arguing with a fool proves there are two. (Doris M. Smith)

The harder you work, the luckier you get. (Gary Player)

Do not forget small kindnesses and do not remember small faults. (Chinese proverb)

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. (Mark Russell)

I have made it a rule never to be with a person ten minutes without trying to make him happier. (Unknown source)

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. (Tom Barry)

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. (Daniel Webster)

You're on the right track if you can entertain an idea, entertain another person, and entertain yourself. (Arthur Jalbert)

God often visits us, but most of the time we're not at home. (Joseph Rous)

The more you say, the less people remember. (Francois Fenelon)

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. (Herb Caen)

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. (Austin O'Malley)

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. (Albert Camus)

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. (Ronald Reagan)

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. (Napoleon Hill)

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. (Jimmy Carter)

Ignore previous cookie. (Message on fortune cookie)

The pedigree of honey

Does not concern the bee;

A clover, any time, to him

Is aristocracy. (Emily Dickinson)

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. (Confucius)

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. (James Russell Lowell)

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. (Ralph Nader)

If a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. (Woodrow Wilson)

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. (Christopher Morley)

Everyone has photographic memory, but some people just don't have film. (Eddie Cantor)

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if the opponents blame if for the drought. (Dwight Morrow)

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. (Lord Bacon)

Character is what you think in the dark. (Dwight L. Moody)

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill)

The things that come to those who wait are usually the things left by those who got there first. (Unknown source)

The more you read and observe about this politics things, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. (Will Rogers)

My grandson recites the Gettysburg Address and he's only nine. Lincoln didn't say it until he was fifty. (Al Okin)

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, incredibly merciful. (John Ruskin)

Fame is delightful, but as collateral it does not rank high. (Elbert Hubbard)

Kind words are the music of the world. (F. W. Faber)

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. (Bill Gates)

They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is to keep if from creeping down into your body. (Katherine Hepburn)

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more then he loves himself. (Josh Billings)

I think that I shall never see

A billboard lovely as a tree,

Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,

I'll never see a tree at all. (Ogden Nash)

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are. (Publilius Syrus)

Life is succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. (Helen Keller)

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. (Vince Lombardi)

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children. (Margaret Mead)

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere. (Albert Einstein)

A father carries pictures where his money used to be. (Phil Silvers)

What is not started will never get finished. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Reputation is for time: character is for eternity. (J. B. Gough)

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

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More Herkimer moan-and-groaners.

1. What is the name of Herkimer's friend who rides a motorcycle and eats cotton?

2. What did Herkimer call the headache he got when he spilled a load of wheat on the highway?

3. What does Herkimer call an individual who has to cough every time he tells a joke?

4. Why did Herkimer ask a pretty girl to go with him to a barbeque?

5. What did Herkimer do in an attempt to stop the ringing in his ears?

Solutions

|1. Evil Boll Weevil 2. My grain headache. |

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|3. A practical choker 4. He wanted her to be his grill |

|friend. |

|5. He put in a request for an unlisted ear. |

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