How True

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

Al Bernstein

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Unknown

Unknown

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

Billie Holiday

90% of the work will take 90% of the time. The last 10% of the work will take the other 90% of the time.

Unknown

Unknown

Sometimes the majority just means that all the fools are on the same side.

The trouble with jogging is, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.

Unknown

Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from the place you left them to where you can't find them.

Unknown 

Unknown

It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten. They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane.

First we want. Then we get. Then we wonder why we wanted it. Then we get it again.

Unknown

Each year it takes less time to cross the country and more time to get to work.

Mary Waldrip

Gene Brown

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Sainthood is only acceptable in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.

Rita Mae Brown

Jaques Barzun

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.

Earle Hitchner

(dedicated to Byron)

To a man with an empty stomach, food is God.

Ghandi

Jean Paul Richter

For sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae from a kick in the pants, but it's miles ahead in results.

Unknown

Being human is a privilege. Not an excuse.

Unknown

Paul Fix

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Thinking is what a great many people think they are doing when they are simply rearranging their prejudices.

William James

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levinson

Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

Unknown

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

The United Church Observer

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense and the past perfect.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bernard Berenson

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

D. H. Lawrence

Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Winston Churchill

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

William Feather

Unknown

It is strange how an earthquake 4,000 miles away seems less of a catastrophe than the first scratch on our new car.

Character is the ability to maintain a resolution, after the spirit in which it was made has passed.

Dave Severn

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley

Tom Brokaw

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

Feed the babies, who don't have enough to eat. / Shoe the children, with no shoes on their feet. / House the people living in the streets. / Now there's a solution.

Steve Miller

Isaac Asimov

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

 

 

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