INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES Feb 2015

Sanderson

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Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. (Mother Teresa)

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a real person. (Roger Kahn)

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life. (Irish proverb)

Consider this equation: The amount of time you spend with your children while they are growing up equals the amount of time they will spend with you while you are growing old. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. (John J. Plump)

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. (Bertrand Russell)

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. (Henry Winkler)

When you are a mother, you are never alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. (Sophia Loren)

So many of our dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. (Christopher Reeve)

Every player must accept the cards life deals him. But once they are in hand, he alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. (Voltaire)

Fame is a four-letter word. And like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or live, or life, what ultimately matters is what we do with it. (Fred Rogers)

A recent poll showed that 62% of American people think they are overweight. The other 38% didn't answer, which is easy to understand. It's hard to talk when your mouth is full. (Ken Alstad)

Nothing is possible if you think it is impossible. Nothing is impossible if you think it is possible. Think positive and work hard, and anything is possible. (Thomas Vilord)

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. (Garry Marshall)

Show me someone who cannot tell his friends from his enemies, and I'll show you somebody who's going to end up with no friends. (Jim Lehrer)

We should say to each child: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique .. you may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. (Pablo Casals)

You can always tell real friends: when you make a fool of yourself, they don't think you've done a permanent job. (Dr. Lawrence J. Peter)

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. (Gerry Spence)

Give the best you have. It may be better than you think. (Unknown source)

You can find your way across the country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. (Charles Kuralt)

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. (Jamie Lee Curtis)

Friends are the family we choose. (Jennifer Aniston)

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. (Charles Dickens)

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark. (Chinese proverb)

Many an optimist became rich by buying out a pessimist. (Robert G. Allen)

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's. (Goodman Ace)

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can. ( Billy Joel)

The more a man knows, the more he forgives. (Catherine the Great)

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. (Menander)

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. (Richard Bach)

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place. (Martin Cooper)

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows. (Sir William Osler)

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good. (Mahatma Gandhi)

It doesn't take much strength to hand on. It takes a lot of strength to let go. (J. C. Watts)

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. (Ice-T)

Gray hair is God's graffiti. (Bill Cosby)

The man of wisdom is never of two minds;

the man of benevolence never worries;

the man of courage is never afraid. (Confucius)

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. (George Bernard Shaw)

Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectation that they are going to succeed. Winners say, "I want to do this and I can do this," not "I would like to do this, but I don't think I can." (Dennis Waitley)

If you're going to think anyway, you might just as well think big. (Donald Trump)

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate. (Bob Plant)

An archeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. (Agatha Christie)

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. (Rosalynn Carter)

Persistence trumps talent and looks every time. (Aaron Brown)

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. (Nelson Rockefeller)

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. (Margaret Atwood)

To play it safe is not to play. (Robert Altman)

I'm in a phone booth at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk. (Ken Dooley)

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. (Anna Quindlen)

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. (German proverb)

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep along. (Anthony Burgess)

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating radio dinners. (Johnny Carson)

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad. (Jimmy Buffet)

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then - we elected them. (Lily Tomlin)

The only way we can teach a child to say, "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first. (Kevin Leman)

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

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Christopher Columbus)

There is one fault that I must find

With the twentieth century,

And I'll put it in a couple of words:

Too adventury.

What I'd like would be some monotony

If anyone's gotony. (Ogden Nash)

There are two ways to study butterflies: chase them with nets and then inspect their dead bodies, or sit quietly in a garden and watch them dance among the flowers. (Nongnuch Bassham)

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. (Raymond Lindquist)

If today was a fish I'd throw it back. (Song Title)

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past. (Rick Pitino)

It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do. (Jerome Jerome)

There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking. (Mary Lowry)

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is: (Frank Scully)

Boy handing over his report card to his parents: "Of course I seem stupid to my teachers - they're all college graduates." (Unknown source)

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. (Marilyn vos Savant)

Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there. (Mickey Friedman)

Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long. (Miguel de Cervantes)

Some people might say, "Who would want to be 90?" and I say, "Anyone who is 89." (Phyllis Diller)

Never ask the barber if you need a haircut. (Warren Buffett)

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them. (Betsy Denison)

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SOMETHING EXTRA (FEB. 2015)

A HERKIMER SILLY STATISTICAL QUIZ

1.

What is the most likely reason for the great fall experienced by Humpty Dumpty?

(A) He was careless.

(B) He was distracted.

(C) He wanted to make up for a lousy summer.

2.

Which event is most likely to be worse than raining cats and dogs?

(A) A drought.

(B) Heavy winds.

(C) Hailing busses.

3.

If Herkimer broke his arm in two places, what is he most likely to do?

(A) Go to a doctor.

(B) Call 911.

(C) Stay out of those two places.

4.

What did George Washington most likely say to his men just before they got in the boat?

(A) "Be brave!"

(B) "Be strong!"

(C) "Men, get in the boat."

5.

What is most likely to be as smart as a talking dog?

(A) A cat with a long tail.

(B) A donkey

(C) A spelling bee

6.

What is probably the best explanation for why bees hum?

(A) Because they are happy

(B) Because they are bored.

(C) Because they don’t know the words to the song.

7.

What are you most likely to be able to count on if you are experiencing a tough period in your life?

(A) Your parents

(B) Your closest friend

(C) Your fingers

8.

What is probably the best way to keep an angry herd of elephants from charging

(A) Offer them peanuts

(B) Ignore them

(C) Take away their credit cards

9.

Why is it highly unlikely that a letter to Washington will get a personal response?

(A) Politicians are too busy to respond.

(B) Politicians don’t pay any attention to their mail

(C) He passed away a long time ago

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