INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES March 2016

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. (Elbert Hubbard)

Never kick a mule and turn your back. (Ken Dooley)

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. (Lynn Johnson)

Be true to your teeth or your teeth will be false to you. (Dental proverb)

Do not give advice that has not been seasoned by your own performance. (Henry Haskins)

The optimist sees the rose and not the thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. (Kahlil Gibran)

I'm grateful for all my problems. As each of them was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those yet to come. I grew on my difficulties. (J. C. Penney)

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. (William James)

Happiness walks on busy feet. (Kitte Turmell)

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. (Anais Nin)

You don't have the power to make life fair, but you do have the power to make it joyful. ((Jonathan Lockwood Huie)

When we are wrong, make us easy to change. When we are right, make us easy to live with. (Alfred Gruenther)

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. (Jim Carrey)

The best face lift is a smile. (Unknown source)

It isn't the whistle that pulls the train. (Vermont proverb)

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly. "One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." (Hans Christian Andersen)

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. (Plutarch)

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. (Dean Martin)

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. (The Buddah)

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. (Lao Tzu)

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today. (Lou Holtz)

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse to the trap gets the cheese. (Willie Nelson)

While this door is closing, another door is opening. It's our job to go find that door. (Matthew Perry)

If at first you do succeed, try something harder. (Unknown source)

Everything at a baseball game is a little brighter, a little sharper, a little more in focus. It's a magical break from the worries and cares of everyday life. (Larry King)

Cleaning your house

While your kids are still growing

Is like shoveling the walk

Before it stops snowing. (Phyllis Diller)

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated. (Robert McNamara)

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. (William Saroyan)

Be the change you wish to see in the world. (Gandhi)

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. (Wilson Mizner)

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. (Margaret Thatcher)

I love fishing. You put that line in that water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there. (Robert Altman)

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others? (Jennifer Garner)

The difference between a successful career and a mediocre one sometimes consists of leaving about four or five things a day unsaid. (Unknown source)

A baby sitter is a teenager who comes in to act like an adult while the adults go out and act like teenagers. (Harry Marsh)

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say. (Bertrand Russell)

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. (Oscar Wilde)

Those who devote 16 hours a day to hard study may become as wise at 60 as they thought themselves to be at 20. (Thomas Jefferson)

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. (Bill Keane)

Without music, life would be a mistake. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. (Heinrich Heine)

No one can make you feel interior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

You gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth. (William Purkey)

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)

When I've had a rough day, before I go to sleep I ask myself if there's anything more I can do right now. If there isn't, I sleep soundly. (Lester Colbert)

To most people, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminates only the track is has passed. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Don't get discouraged. No one is perfeck. (Unknown source)

Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work. (Carl Sandburg)

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller)

Writing is the hardest way to make a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. (Olin Miller)

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as the sun declines. (Edward Young)

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill)

Speak softly and sweetly. If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be hard to swallow if you have to eat them. (James Thurber)

Inside every 70-year old is a 35-year old asking., "What happened?" (Ann Landers)

Sixty years ago, I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. (Will Durant)

Each of June's new graduates has left his college hall.

The world is now his oyster, the future is his thrall.

He thinks he knows a great, great deal, more than his parents do.

And speaking of that state of mind, the chances are it's true. (Leverett Lyon)

Consider this paradox: Almost everything that is publicly said these days is recorded. Almost nothing of what is said is worth remembering. (Ted Koppel)

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six more months. (Walther Matthau)

The cellphone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances. (Robert Lynd)

It's never too late to be what you might have been. (George Eliot)

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)

Listen to the mustn'ts child. Listen to the don'ts.

Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.

Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me..

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. (Shel Silverstein)

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. (Oscar Wilde)

Pray to God for a good harvest, but don't stop hoeing. (Bohemian Proverb)

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More Herkimer moan-and-groaners....

1. Why didn't Herkimer want to do business with a suspicious-looking salesman who was sitting under a

beach umbrella?

2. Why does Herkimer think that bowling alleys are very quite places?

3. When Herkimer wanted to get up at 5 AM, why did he sleep under an old car?

4. When Herkimer ran a nudist colony, what did he say to the impatient bill collector?

5. Why did Herkimer call the FBI when he accidentally dropped a letter into a barrel of tar?

Solutions

1. He was afraid he would get a shady deal.

2. Someone told him you could hear a pin drop.

3. So he would wake up oily in the morning.

4. "Please bare with us."

5. He heard that they handled cases involving blackmail.

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