Quotes

Our every utterance may be recalled by someone for enlightenment, amusement, or haunting.

Some Favorite Quotes

A politician is a man who approaches every question with an open mouth. - Adlai Stevenson

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard, Nashville songwriter

Sometimes it's only two chords and a little white lie. - Greg Gilbert

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. ~ W. L. George

And the end of all our searching shall be to return to the place where we started and know it for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. - Clementine Paddleford

If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. - Anon.

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but by what we settle for.
- Alan Cohen

If life gives us rocks, it's our choice whether to build a bridge or a wall.
- Unknown

The great value of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
- James Truslow Adams

The only difference between a weed and a flower is a judgment.
- Wayne Dyer

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
- Barry Switzer

Anyone who thinks people lack originality should watch them folding roadmaps.
- Franklin P. Jopnes

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

You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles these three things: A rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights- Unknown

Start where you are.- Edgar Cayce

There are three ways you can get to the top of a tree: sit on an acorn; make friends with a bird; climb it. - Unknown

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a terrible warning. - Catherine Aird

Life is an echo - what you send out comes back. - Unknown
(Unless it's a duck quack.)

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. - Tom Clancy

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde

Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Henry Ward Beecher

Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching - Unknown

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Einstein

Everything you know is wrong. - Firesign Theatre

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. - James Earl Jones

Now is not the time to cling to what was, but to amend what is. - Helen Hayes

The maxims of men disclose their hearts. - Anonymous

A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea. - Honoré de Balzac

Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. - Abigail Adams

All things on earth point home in old October: sailors to sea, travelers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollows, the lover to the love he has forsaken. - Thomas Wolfe

I'd rather seek my company than my solitude. - Frank Pitkin

The Welshman prays on Sunday - and everyone else the rest of the week.
The Irishman keeps the Sabbath - and everything else he can get his hands on.
The Scotsman doesn't know what he wants - and isn't satisfied until he gets it.
The Englishman is a self-made man - and worships his creator.
(This WISE saying was found in one of my dad's medical notebooks dated 1954 - source unknown)

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.

Those who can, do. Those who can do more, teach. - Unknown

In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh. - W. H. Auden

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. - Erasmus

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. - William James

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. - W. Somerset Maugham

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. - Montaigne

You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator. - Barbara Kingsolver

Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. - Unknown.

The heart has its reasons that reason does not know. - Pascal

Everything you need to know is on the Internet. You just can't find it. - Anonymous

Background tune: Sweetheart - Wayman Chapman