INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES December 2015

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Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge. (Erwin Knoll)

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. (Fran Lebowitz)

Ireland's greatest export has always been her people. (Nancy Keefe)

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane. (Doug Larson)

Here lies my past,

Goodbye I have kissed it;

Thank you kids,

I wouldn't have missed it. (Ogden Nash)

Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, the pass no criticisms. (George Eliot)

Life is not a final. It's daily pop quizzes. (Ann Crittenden)

A little madness in the Spring

Is wholesome even for the King. (Emily Dickinson)

An optimist is a person who believes a housefly is looking for a way out. (George Jean Nathan)

Keep your fears to yourself; share your courage with others. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow blower, or vacuum cleaner. (Ben Berger)

If one only wished to be happy, this could easily be accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than we are. (Montesquieu)

People who make money rarely saunter; people who save money rarely swagger (Edward Lytton)

There's only one thing that can grow without nourishment: the human ego. (Marshall Lumsden)

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. (Don Herold)

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. (Beryl Pfizer)

Wisdom only comes with experience and experience only comes with time. (Unknown source)

Beware of little expenses. A small leak can sink a large ship. (Benjamin Franklin)

Being a frog isn't as bad as it seems. Whenever anything bugs them, they eat it. (Unknown source)

That which is used develops. That which is not used wastes away. (Hippocrates)

It's hard to stand still in life. If you're not going forward, you may be going backward. Sometimes this movement is so subtle we're not aware of it. (Franklin Field)

Advice is what older men offer to younger men when they can no longer set them a bad example. (Irvin Cobb)

The real judges of your character aren't your neighbors, your relatives or even the people you spend a lot of time with. The folks who really know you are waiters, waitresses, and service personnel (Kathleen Piper)

You will never bypass your predecessor by following in his footsteps. (Irish proverb)

When the politicians complain that TV turns their proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all performers are well trained. (Edward R. Murrow)

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a good person - to help them is. (Frank Clark)

The future is that time when you'll wish you'd done what you aren't doing now. (Gerald Roque)

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance,

it recedes. (Edmund Burke.)

To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better. (Tryon Edwards)

 Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody. (Helen Gurley Brown)

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person.  Always do what you are

afraid to do. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 Morale is self-esteem in action. (Avery Weisman)

 If you wish in this world to advance,

Your merits you’re bound to enhance.

You must stir it and stump it,

And blow your own trumpet,

Or trust me you haven’t a chance. (W. S. Gilbert)

 Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs. (H. Stein)

Making a living is not the same as making a life. (Unknown source)

 Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. (Bert Murray)

A glimpse is not a vision.  But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the

next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. (C. S. Lewis)

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. (Herbert Browne)

 Well it is known that ambition can creep as well as soar. (Edmund Burke)

Again the blackbirds sing;

the streams

Wake, laughing from

their winter dreams,

And tremble in the April showers

The tassels of the maple flowers. (John Greenleaf Whittier)

 Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. (George Eliot)

Many people feel guilty about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about. (Sydney J. Harris)

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. (Walter Lippmann)

 The kind of humor I like is the type that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for

ten minutes. (William Davis)

When it comes to staying young, a mind beats a face lift any day. (Marty Burella)

The best way to treat a cold is with contempt. (William Osler)

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history. (Oscan Handlin)

Those who think it's permissible to tell white lies soon become color-blind. (Austin O'Malley)

Gentle words fall lightly but they have great weight. (Ogden Nash)

Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon. (Norman Vincent Peale)

Sign in a department store's Customer Service Department: "God loves you and I'm trying." (Unknown source)

 It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little

differences that make them interesting. (Bill Baruch)

 One does not make friends .  One recognizes them. (Garth Henrichs)

A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. (German proverb)

 

It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. (Jack Manning)

 

Fools look to tomorrow; wise people use tonight. (Source unknown)

 

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life.  How do you get it?  You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.  Enthusiasm is natural; it  is  being  alive, taking the initiative, seeing the importance of what you do,  giving it dignity and making what you do important to yourself and to others. (Gordon Parks)

 

Luck is always against the person who depends on it. (Ken Dooley)

 

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. (Jason Bell)

 

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.

 Criticize me, and I may not like you.

 Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.

 Encourage me, and I will not forget you. (William Arthur Ward)

 

We are only young once. That is all society can stand. (Bob Bowen)

Inside every 70-year old is a 35-year old asking, "What happened?" (Unknown source)

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for a handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it; friends make life a lot more fun. (Charles R. Swindoll)

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves. (Buddha)

Sometimes we forget that we will never find such people in our life again. (Dimitri Konstantinidis)

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. (Danish proverb)

It's OK to be content with what you have, but never with what you are. (Unknown source)

You can have a fancy education and still not be very wise. (Unknown source)

May you never forget what is worth remembering, or remember what is best forgotten. (Celtic toast)

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing. (Michal Pritchard)

Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you. (Satchel Paige)

You can’t wait for the phone to ring. You have to pick up the phone and ring them. (Lew Grade)

Some silly Herkimer questions (from long ago):

1. Why did Herkimer have trouble making Kool-Aid?

2. Why did Herkimer fail as a pharmacist?

3. What did Herkimer tell Cinderella when her photographs didn't arrive on time?

4. Why did Herkimer never tell a secret in a cornfield.

5. When Herkimer was a veterinarian, what did he prescribe for a bald rabbit?

Answers:

1. He couldn't figure out how to get two quarts of water into the little envelope.

2. He couldn't figure out how to get the little bottle into the typewriter.

3. "Don't worry, Cindy. Some day your prints will come."

4. Because too many ears would hear it.

5. Hare tonic.

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