MORE WISE QUOTES
G'day folks,
Time for some more quotes that are worth reading.
People
cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless
you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King
The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.~Jeanne LaMont, MD
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King
The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"
Every
one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the
more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
~Samuel Butler
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. ~Robert Brault
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. ~Robert Brault
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard
On
the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If
you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let
there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner
Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean—
so get yourself a little loving
in between.
~Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner
Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean—
so get yourself a little loving
in between.
~Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)
Clancy's comment: Mm ... Some good ones here. I hope you agree.
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