How many famous quotes can you think of?


“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes,
I am out of control and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

I was given this one a long time ago:

When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going. Billy Ocean made a recording in 1985

“I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

The Best Things in Life Are Not Things ______Art Buchwald

“I like nonsense,
it wakes up the brain cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa


“Not all of us can do great things.
But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa


"Peace begins with a smile."
-- Mother Teresa

“I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

"A genius is a talented person who does his homework."
-- Thomas A. Edison


"Fools call wise men fools.
A wise man never calls any man a fool."
-- Thomas A. Edison

Progress Not Perfection

"A mother takes twenty years
to make a man of her boy,
and another woman makes
a fool of him in twenty minutes."
-- Robert Frost


"The world is full of willing people;
some willing to work,
the rest willing to let them."
-- Robert Frost


"Forgive me my nonsense,
as I also forgive the nonsense
of those that think they talk sense."
-- Robert Frost

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde


“Always forgive your enemies;
nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde


“I am so clever that sometimes
I don't understand a
single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde,

“If you can make a woman laugh,
you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe


“Imperfection is beauty,
madness is genius and
it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe


“I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

Mr Gorbachev Tear Down This Wall ------- RONALD REAGAN

Hey Foggy, where are all your buddies and their quotes???

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Hey Foggy, where are all your buddies and their quotes???


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.................Artificial Intelligence...............................


“The real question is,
when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights?
What will that consist of?
And who will get to decide that?”
—Gray Scott


“The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.”
—Jeff Hawkins


“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”
—Alan Perlis

“Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?”
—Spike Jonze


“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence
is that people conclude too early that they understand it.”
—Eliezer Yudkowsky


“The sad thing about artificial intelligence
is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.”
—Jean Baudrillard

“Forget artificial intelligence -
in the brave new world of big data,
it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.”
—Tom Chatfield

“Before we work on artificial intelligence
why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?”
—Steve Polyak


“I’m increasingly inclined to think that
there should be some regulatory oversight,
maybe at the national and international level,
just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish.
I mean with artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon.”
—Elon Musk -------warned at MIT’s AeroAstro Centennial Symposium

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade......

"It takes half your life
before you discover
life is a do-it-yourself project."
-- NAPOLEON HILL


"Great dancers are not great
because of their technique,
they are great because of their passion."
-- MARTHA GRAHAM


"When you have a dream,
you've got to grab it
and never let go."
-- CAROL BURNETT


"The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires."
-- WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD


"Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people. "
-- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"Family is the most important thing in the world."
-- Diana (Princess of Wales)


"It does not matter how slowly
you go so long as you do not stop."
-- Confucius


"It’s not whether you get knocked down,
it’s whether you get up."
-- Vince Lombardi


"You miss 100 percent of the
shots you never take."
-- Wayne Gretzky


"I’ve failed over and over and over again
in my life and that is why I succeed."
-- Michael Jordan

One Day At A Time..


Keep It Simple....

"Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated."
--Confucius


“You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us.
And the world will live as one.”
--John Lennon


"You only live once,
but if you do it right,
once is enough."
--Mae West


"May you live all the days of your life."
--Jonathan Swift


"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale." -
-Hans Christian Andersen

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
--JEAN-PAUL SARTRE


"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."
--VOLTAIRE


"The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will."
--J. ARTHUR THOMSON


"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
--Winston S. Churchill


"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."
- -J.M. Power

"I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have."
--Thomas Jefferson


"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
--George Addair


"Nothing is impossible,
the word itself says,
‘I'm possible!'"
--Audrey Hepburn


"Dream big and dare to fail."
--Norman Vaughan


"Don't find fault,
find a remedy:
anyone can complain."
--Henry Ford

"He who fights too long against dragons
becomes a dragon himself"
--NIETZSCHE


"I believe a leaf of grass
is no less than
the journey-work of the stars."
--WALT WHITMAN


“You've 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 W. Purkey


“All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now
and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz



“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
and it may be necessary
from time to time to give a stupid
or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

“I'm not afraid of death;
I just don't want to be there
when it happens.”
― Woody Allen


“To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling


“If you want your children to be intelligent,
read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be more intelligent,
read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein


“Logic will get you from A to Z;
imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein


“Whenever I feel the need to exercise,
I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you.
You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley


“You don't get to choose
if you get hurt in this world...
but you do have some
say in who hurts you.
I like my choices.”
― John Green


“The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss


“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway


“One good thing about music,
when it hits you,
you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

The More Stuff We Own, the More It Owns Us -------By Me

If you look at what you have in life,
you'll always have more.
If you look at what you don't have in life,
you'll never have enough.
--Oprah Winfrey

The More Stuff We Own, the More It Owns Us -------By Me


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“The more things you own,
the more they own you.”
-― Chuck Palahniuk

Less Is Best --- for sure not Gates,et al

"The most powerful factors in the world
are clear ideas in the minds
of energetic men of good will."
--J. ARTHUR THOMSON


“Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
And, weak men create hard times.”
--G. MICHAEL HOPF



"If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life
which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success
unexpected in common hours.”
--HENRY DAVID THOREAU


"The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty of their dreams"
--Eleanor Roosevelt


"I have no special talent.
I am only passionately curious"
--Albert Einstein

"If we are strong,
our strength will speak for itself.
If we are weak,
words will be of no help"
--John F. Kennedy


"Effort and courage are not enough
without purpose and direction"
--John F. Kennedy


"Things do not happen.
Things are made to happen."
--John F. Kennedy


"One person can make a difference,
and everyone should try."
--John F. Kennedy


"Those who dare to fail miserably
can achieve greatly."
-- John F. Kennedy

"People with courage and character
always seem sinister to the rest."
--HERMANN HESSE


"You can't have a better tomorrow if you
are thinking about yesterday all the time."
--CHARLES KETTERING



"The future starts today,
not tomorrow"
-- Pope John Paul II


"There is nothing so useless
as doing efficiently
that which should not
be done at all."
-- Peter Drucker


"Learn to value yourself,
which means:
to fight for your happiness"
-- Ayn Rand

"I would like to die on Mars.
Just not on impact"
-- Elon Musk


"Those who say it can’t be done
are usually interrupted by others doing it"
-- James Baldwin


"The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty
of their dreams"
-- Eleanor Roosevelt


"We don’t want to tell our dreams.
We want to show them."
-- Cristiano Ronaldo


"Genius is eternal patience."
-- Michelangelo

"Of all tyrannies,
a tyranny sincerely exercised
for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive."
--C.S. LEWIS


“All governments suffer a recurring problem:
Power attracts pathological personalities.
It is not that power corrupts
but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
--FRANK HERBERT


“The world hates change,
yet it is the only thing
that has brought progress.”
--CHARLES KETTERING


"We didn't know how to run a business,
but we had dreams and talent."
--RUTH HANDLER


"There is nothing permanent except change."
--Heraclitus

The three wise monkeys are a Japanese pictorial maxim, embodying the proverbial principle "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".[1] The three monkeys are

Mizaru (見ざる), who sees no evil, covering his eyes
Kikazaru (聞かざる), who hears no evil, covering his ears
Iwazaru (言わざる), who speaks no evil, covering his mouth.[2]
Lafcadio Hearn refers to them as the three mystic apes.[3]

There are various meanings ascribed to the monkeys and the proverb including associations with being of good mind, speech and action. The phrase is often used to refer to those who deal with impropriety by turning a blind eye.[4]

"In America,
the president reigns for four years,
and journalism
governs forever and ever."
-- OSCAR WILDE


“Do not wait for the last judgment.
It comes every day.”
-- ALBERT CAMUS


"No heirloom of humankind
captures the past
as do art and language."
-- THEODORE BIKEL


"Let us sacrifice our today
so that our children
can have a better tomorrow."
-- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam


"Learning never exhausts the mind."
--Leonardo da Vinci

"The soul that sees beauty
may sometimes walk alone."
--JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE


“When you change your thoughts,
remember to also change your world.”
--NORMAN VINCENT PEALE


“To hold a pen
is to be at war.”
--VOLTAIRE


"Water flows uphill
towards money"
--Anonymous


"There is no charm equal
to tenderness of heart."
--Jane Austen

“The best mirror is an old friend.”
-- GEORGE HERBERT


"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"
(alternatively
"you'll own nothing and be happy")
-- Ida Auken


"All that we see or seem
is but a dream within a dream."
-- Edgar Allan Poe


"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love."
-- Francis of Assisi


"Good judgment comes from experience,
and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
-- Will Rogers

"I was a vegetarian until I started
leaning toward the sunlight."
-- Rita Rudner


"Truth is strong,
and sometime or other
will prevail."
-- Mary Astell


"The man who is swimming
against the stream
knows the strength of it."
--Woodrow Wilson


”I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.“
--SOCRATES


"Passion is momentary;
love enduring."
--John Wooden

Old Age Is Not For Sissies ..... Bette Davis

"Success is the sum of small efforts -
repeated day in and day out."
-- ROBERT COLLIER


"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs."
-- VICTOR HUGO


"It's a dangerous business
going out your front door."
-- J. R. R. TOLKIEN


"If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough."
-- ALBERT EINSTEIN


"I learn something every time
I go into the mountains."
-- MICHAEL KENNEDY

"In every person there is a sun.
Just let them shine."
-- Socrates


"The most important decision you make
is to be in a good mood."
-- Voltaire


"Think in the morning.
Act in the noon.
Eat in the evening.
Sleep in the night."
-- William Blake


"Of all possessions
a friend is the most precious."
-- HERODOTUS

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort."
-- FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

"Curiosity is one of the permanent
and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."
--SAMUEL JOHNSON


"A rebirth out of spiritual adversity
causes us to become new creatures."
--JAMES E. FAUST


"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
--RALPH WALDO EMERSON


"If you cannot find peace within yourself,
you will never find it anywhere else."
--MARVIN GAYE


"The more a man knows, the less he talks."
--Voltaire

"I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing." :nod:
-- Socrates


"One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil."
-- VIRGINIA WOOLF


"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."
-- ALFRED WHITNEY GRISWOLD


"Either you run the day or the day runs you."
-- JIM ROHN


"This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it."
-- RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
-- HENRY DAVID THOREAU


"The excellence of a gift lies in
its appropriateness rather than in its value."
-- CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER


"We are learning, too, that the love of beauty
is one of Nature's greatest healers."
-- ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON


"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy,
hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny."
-- Frederick William Robertson


"This world is so full of hypocrisy,
the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit."
-- Pete Seeger

"Sometimes you have to let go
to see if there was anything worth holding onto."
-- Socrates


"It is dangerous to be right in matters
where established men are wrong."
-- Voltaire


"Failure will never stand in the way of success
if you learn from it."
-- HANK AARON


"Laziness is nothing more than the habit
of resting before you get tired."
-- JULES RENARD


"There are three rules for writing the novel.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
-- W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Hey Foggy, no slogan but wonder how you chose your U/N, is it a brain fog thing??? I wonder about that and people's M.O. The net sure has a lot of doozies...

Hey Foggy, no slogan but wonder how you chose your U/N, is it a brain fog thing??? I wonder about that and people's M.O. The net sure has a lot of doozies...

Find answer on post #32
https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=447813&page=3

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."
-- CHARLES DICKENS


"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."
-- THOMAS JEFFERSON


“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
-- ROY T. BENNETT


"Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him."
-- BAYARD TAYLOR


"If you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change."
-- WAYNE DYER

"I always entertain great hopes."
-- ROBERT FROST


"People everywhere confuse what they read
in newspapers with news."
-- A. J. LIEBLING


"Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance."
-- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW


“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”
-- ERNEST HEMINGWAY


"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation,
indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril;
but the new view must come, the world must roll forward."
-- SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Advice From the Wise Sea Turtle:

Swim with the current

Be a good navigator

Stay calm under pressure

Be well traveled

Think long term

Age gracefully

Spend time at the beach......

Good Advice for Life

"It has been the political career
of this man to begin with hypocrisy,
proceed with arrogance,
and finish with contempt"
-- Thomas Paine


“A desk is a dangerous place
from which to watch the world.”
-- JOHN LE CARRE


“What is a soul?
It's like electricity -
we don't really know what it is,
but it's a force that can light a room.”
-- RAY CHARLES


“Earth has no sorrow
that earth cannot heal.”
-- JOHN MUIR


“Set all things in their own peculiar place,
and know that order is the greatest grace.”
-- JOHN DRYDEN

"One can dream so much better
in a room where there are pretty things."
-- L. M. MONTGOMERY


"The fairest thing in nature, a flower,
still has its roots in earth"
-- D. H. LAWRENCE


"The things we know best are
the things we haven't been taught."
-- MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES


" Walking is man's best medicine."
-- HIPPOCRATES


"Be generous, be delicate,
and always pursue the prize."
-- HENRY JAMES

"I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.".... Albert Einstein

Before all the Instant Technology, it was World Books, Dictionary and PUBLIC LIBRARIES..

"The absence of alternatives
clears the mind marvelously."
-- HENRY KISSINGER


"Forgiveness is a funny thing.
It warms the heart and cools the sting."
-- WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD


"Courage is the price that Life
exacts for granting peace"
-- AMELIA EARHART


“If you risk nothing,
then you risk everything.”
-- GEENA DAVIS


"If the king loves music,
there is little wrong in the land."
-- MENCIUS

"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day,
you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
-- BILL WATTERSON


"Reading well is one of the great pleasures
that solitude can afford you."
-- HAROLD BLOOM


"Truth is beautiful, without doubt;
but so are lies."
-- RALPH WALDO EMERSON


"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds,
and I very rarely change it."
-- MARGARET THATCHER


“How vain it is to sit down to write
when you have not stood up to live.”
-- HENRY DAVID THOREAU

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
-- BOOKER T. WASHINGTON


“Life becomes easier and more beautiful
when we can see the good in other people.”
-- ROY T. BENNETT


“This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.”
-- RALPH WALDO EMERSON


“It is our choices that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.”
-- J.K. ROWLING


“The moment of victory
is much too short to live
for that and nothing else."
-- MARTINA NAVRATILOVA

“A person is never happy
except at the price of some ignorance."
-- ANATOLE FRANCE


“To live without risk for me
would be tantamount to death."
-- JACQUELIN E COCHRAN


“Nothing can be done except little by little."
-- CHARLES BAUDELAIRE


"I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories
is preferable to the fun
that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure."
-- LAWANA BLACKWELL


“Give the world the best you have,
and the best will come to you.”
-- MADELINE BRIDGES

“When I was younger,
I could remember anything,
whether it had happened or not.”
-- MARK TWAIN


“After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are
many more hills to climb.”
-- NELSON MANDELA


"The great difference between voyages
rests not with the ships,
but with the people you meet on them."
-- AMELIA BARR


“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.”
-- ANAXAGORAS


“Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.”
-- LARRY PAGE

"People seldom become famous for what they say
until after they are famous for what they've done."
-- CULLEN HIGHTOWER


"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always;
this occupation ought to last as long as life."
-- QUEEN CHRISTINA


"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."
-- JOHN MUIR


"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home
are of more importance to the soul
than their simplicity might suggest."
-- THOMAS MOORE


"Life is a song — sing it.
Life is a game — play it.
Life is a challenge — meet it.
Life is a dream — realize it.
Life is a sacrifice — offer it.
Life is love — enjoy it."
-- SATHYA SAI BABA

“Show me the man and
I’ll find you the crime”
-- LAVRENTIY BERIA


"Give him enough rope and
he will hang himself."
-- CHARLOTTE BRONTE


"Compromise: An agreement between two men
to do what both agree is wrong."
-- Lord Edward Cecil


"It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
-- UPTON SINCLAIR


"The most dangerous man to any government
is the man who is able to think things out for himself."
-- H. L. MENCKEN

"Those who would exploit you
will always look for vulnerabilities"
-- Foggy
(yes, me :D -- OK, so it's not a "FAMOUS QUOTE" --yet)

"Get happiness out of your work or
you may never know what happiness is."
-- ELBERT HUBBARD


"The real war will never get in the books."
--WALT WHITMAN


“It doesn't pay to get discouraged.
Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life
can restore your faith in yourself”
-- LUCILLE BALL


"If you haven't got any charity in your heart,
you have the worst kind of heart trouble."
-- BOB HOPE


"Hope is necessary in every condition."
-- SAMUEL JOHNSON

"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything,
let us examine how happy those are who already possess it."
-- FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD


"No man can ever be secure until
he has been forsaken by Fortune.”
-- BOETHIUS


"It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold."
-- JUDY GARLAND


"The highest art is always the most religious,
and the greatest artist
is always a devout person."
-- ABRAHAM LINCOLN


"To keep the heart unwrinkled,
to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent -
that is to triumph over old age."
-- THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

Well Foggy you've taken a lot time and posted a lot of wise, sage words and you choose to attack my 2 important topics I talk about. Practice what you preach more, why don't you.... Wonder how many here even read any of your entries???? I hope so and hope they use them wisely.

"People do not decide to become extraordinary.
They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."
-- EDMUND HILLARY


"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
-- HENRY WARD BEECHER


"Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend."
-- JULES RENARD


"He who would travel happily must travel light."
-- ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY


"There are some things you learn
best in calm, and some in storm."
-- WILLA CATHER

(1525)

"Deeds, not stones
are the true monuments of the great."
-- JOHN L. MOTLEY


"Life is like an onion.
You peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep."
-- CARL SANDBURG


"Stand for something.
Always have class,
and be humble."
-- JOHN MADDEN


"He who is fixed to a star
does not change his mind."
-- LEONARDO DA VINCI


"Success is a journey,
not a destination.
The doing is often more important
than the outcome."
-- ARTHUR ASHE

Well Foggy you've taken a lot time and posted a lot of wise, sage words and you choose to attack my 2 important topics I talk about. Practice what you preach more, why don't you.... Wonder how many here even read any of your entries???? I hope so and hope they use them wisely.

Your respond is here (post #482)
https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?p=6287256#post6287256

Simple and This Works:

Live Simply and Simply LIVE...

1594

"Tact is the knack of making a point
without making an enemy."
-- ISAAC NEWTON


“Greatness is not intelligence.
Greatness comes from character.
And character isn’t formed out of smart people,
it’s formed out of people who suffered.”
-- JENSEN HUANG


“To affect the quality of the day,
that is the highest of arts.”
-- HENRY DAVID THOREAU


“If you don't have time to do it right,
when will you have the time to do it over?”
-- JOHN WOODEN


"Be careful that you do not write or
paint anything that is not your own,
that you don't know in your own soul."
-- EMILY CARR

(1647)


"The illiterate of the 21st century will not
be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn,
unlearn,
and relearn."
-- ALVIN TOFFLER


"Learn as much by writing as by reading."
-- LORD ACTON


"There are glimpses of heaven
to us in every act,
or thought,
or word,
that raises us above ourselves."
-- ROBERT QUILLEN


"As you grow older,
you will discover that you have two hands,
one for helping yourself,
the other for helping others."
-- AUDREY HEPBURN


"The home is the chief school of human virtues."
-- WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING

HAPPY 248th BIRTHDAY AMERICA




“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands,
that is, to give them the power at all times
to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.”
-- JOHN ADAMS


“He who is brave is free.”
— LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA


“Liberty is the breath of life to nations.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW


“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”
— GERALD STANLEY LEE


“Freedom is nothing else
but a chance to be better.”
— ALBERT CAMUS

HAPPY 248th BIRTHDAY AMERICA


“Liberty has never come from the government.
Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
— WOODROW WILSON


“Liberty has been planted here;
and the more it is attacked,
the more it grows and flourishes.”
— SAMUEL SHERWOOD


“Freedom is the right
to tell people
what they do not want to hear.”
— GEORGE ORWELL


“We shall go wild with fireworks ...
And they will plunge into the sky
and shatter the darkness.”
— NATSUKI TAKAYA


“One flag, one land,
one heart, one hand,
one nation, evermore!”
— OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

HAPPY 248th BIRTHDAY AMERICA


“May we think of freedom,
not as the right to do as we please,
but as the opportunity
to do what is right.”
— PETER MARSHALL


“Freedom (n.):
To ask nothing.
To expect nothing.
To depend on nothing.”
— AYN RAND “The Fountainhead”


“This nation will remain the land of the free
only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
— ELMER DAVIS


“Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?
If we can’t go hand in hand,
I don’t want to go.”
— HAZEL SCOTT


“It is impossible to conquer a nation
determined to be free!”
— THOMAS PAINE

(1656)


HAPPY 248th BIRTHDAY AMERICA


“Find a moment, just a simple moment,
to close your eyes and think
of the men and women
who protect the freedoms you enjoy.
It’s a privilege, not a right.”
— MATTHEW LILLARD


“In America, nobody says you have to keep
the circumstances somebody else gives you.”
— AMY TAN “The Joy Luck Club”


“Patriotism consists not in waving the flag,
but in striving that our country
shall be righteous as well as strong.”
— JAMES BRYCE


“America was not built on fear.
America was built on courage,
on imagination and an unbeatable determination
to do the job at hand.”
— HARRY TRUMAN


“Humanity has won its battle.
Liberty now has a country.”
— MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

1749


"The greatest use of life is
to spend it for something
that will outlast it."
-- WILLIAM JAMES


"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world–
not even our troubles."
-- CHARLIE CHAPLIN


"Who so loves believes the impossible."
-- ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING


“Those who control their passions
do so because their passions
are weak enough to be controlled.”
-- WILLIAM BLAKE


“Worst wheel on the wagon makes the most noise.”
-- RONALD REAGAN

1793


"Nothing astonishes men so much
as common sense and plain dealing."
-- RALPH WALDO EMERSON


“You never know what
worse luck your bad luck
has saved you from.”
-- CORMAC MCCARTHY


“Truth is so rare,
it is delightful to tell it.”
-- EMILY DICKINSON


“The test of a student is not
how much he knows,
but how much he wants to know.”
-- ALICE WELLINGTON ROLLINS


"I have never in my life envied a human being
who led an easy life;
I have envied a great many people
who led difficult lives and led them well.”
-- THEODORE ROOSEVELT

1832



"It's a rare person who wants to hear
what he doesn't want to hear."
-- DICK CAVETT


"Against criticism we can neither protect
nor defend ourselves;
we must act in despite of it,
and gradually it resigns itself to this."
-- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE


"One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done."
-- MARIE CURIE


“Inspiration is merely
the reward for working every day.”
-- CHARLES BAUDELAIRE



"I have discovered in life
that there are ways of getting
almost anywhere you want to go,
if you really want to go."
-- LANGSTON HUGHES

1888


"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
-- RALPH WALDO EMERSON


"Treat your friends as you do your pictures,
and place them in their best light."
-- JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL


"A moment's insight is sometimes
worth a lifetime's experience."
-- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR.


"Don't let us make imaginary evils,
when you know we have
so many real ones to encounter."
-- OLIVER GOLDSMITH


"That's the way things come clear.
All of a sudden.
And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
-- MADELEINE L'ENGLE


"Flowers grow out of dark moments."
-- CORITA KENT


“Women want love to be a novel.
Men, a short story.”
-- DAPHNE DU MAURIER

1927



“Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.”
-- L. M. MONTGOMERY


"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
-- SAMUEL JOHNSON


“A happy marriage consists of two good forgivers.”
-- ROBERT QUILLEN


"Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy."
-- LAURENCE STERNE


"Fortune helps the brave."
-- TERENCE


"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
-- MARGARET THATCHER


"I take a certain pride in having maintained a
reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career.
Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry.
Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate."
-- WALTER CRONKITE

1999


"A mind too active is no mind at all."
-- THEODORE ROETHKE


"Saying nothing sometimes says the most."
-- EMILY DICKINSON


"In the long run,
the sharpest weapon of all
is a kind and gentle spirit."
-- ANNE FRANK


"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
-- JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER


"Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range
than saying what we know."
-- CULLEN HIGHTOWER


"I do not know anyone who has gotten
to the top without hard work.
That is the recipe.
It will not always get you to the top,
but it will get you pretty near."
-- MARGARET THATCHER


"Watch your thoughts,
for they will become actions.
Watch your actions,
for they'll become... habits.
Watch your habits
for they will forge your character.
Watch your character,
for it will make your destiny."
-- MARGARET THATCHER

2039


“You may have to fight a battle
more than once to win it.”
-- MARGARET THATCHER


"Courage is the most important of all the virtues
because without courage,
you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
-- MAYA ANGELOU


“The best climber in the world
is the one who's having the most fun.”
-- ALEX LOWE


“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly,
but rarely admit the changes
it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
-- MAYA ANGELOU


"Don't wait.
The time will never be just right."
-- NAPOLEON HILL


"Strength and growth
come only through
continuous effort and struggle."
-- NAPOLEON HILL


"Where there's hope,
there's life.
It fills us with fresh courage
and makes us strong again."
-- ANNE FRANK

“August was nearly over — the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear — the first sign of advancing autumn.”

Viktor Někrasov

2115



"A goal is a dream with a deadline."
-- NAPOLEON HILL


“America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
-- ABRAHAM LINCOLN


“I prefer peace.
But if trouble must come,
let it come in my time,
so that my children can live in peace.”
-- THOMAS PAINE


“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue
enough to maintain what I consider
the most enviable of all titles,
the character of an honest man.”
-- GEORGE WASHINGTON


“Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.”
-- Winston Churchill


“Remember, upon the conduct of each
depends the fate of all.”
-- Alexander the Great


“The higher we are placed,
the more humbly we should walk.”
-- Cicero

"‘Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." – John Lennon

Some Yogi Berra Quotes:lol:



1. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

2. You can observe a lot by just watching.

3. It ain’t over till it’s over.

4. It’s like déjà vu all over again.

5. No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.

6. Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

7. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore

2166


"Where no gods are, specters rule."
-- NOVALIS


"Effective leadership is not
about making speeches
or being liked;
leadership is defined by results
not attributes."
-- PETER DRUCKER


"As I grow older,
I pay less attention to what men say.
I just watch what they do."
-- ANDREW CARNEGIE


“Moderation in temper is always a virtue;
but moderation in principle
is always a vice.”
-- THOMAS PAINE


“No man will make a great leader
who wants to do it all himself
or get all the credit for doing it.”
-- ANDREW CARNEGIE


"Morals today are corrupted
by our worship
of riches."
-- CICERO


“When men are full of envy
they disparage everything,
whether it be good or bad.”
-- TACITUS

Some Yogi Berra Quotes:lol:



1. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

2. You can observe a lot by just watching.

3. It ain’t over till it’s over.

4. It’s like déjà vu all over again.

5. No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.

6. Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

7. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore


Nobody can't HELP, but to love YOGI BERRA :) :lol: :happyface :lol:

2204


“Any observant local knows more
than any visiting scientist.
Always.
No exceptions.”
-- ROGER PAYNE


"Rank does not confer privilege
or give power.
It imposes responsibility."
-- PETER DRUCKER


"Within the character of the citizen,
lies the welfare of the nation."
-- CICERO


“Do something well, and that is quickly enough.”
-- BALTASAR GRACIÁN


“I prayed for twenty years
but received no answer
until I prayed with my legs.”
-- FREDERICK DOUGLASS


"When I make up my mind to do a thing
it stays made up."
-- L. M. MONTGOMERY


“A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.”
-- HELEN KELLER

2241


“Action is hope.
At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work,
you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned,
I did this today."
-- RAY BRADBURY


"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do
with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
-- JOHANN GEORG VON ZIMMERMANN


"A good home must be made, not bought."
-- JOYCE MAYNARD


“You’re never ready for what you have to do.
You just do it.
That makes you ready.”
-- FLORA RHETA SCHREIBER


“Books hold most of the secrets of the world,
most of the thoughts that men and women have had.
And when you are reading a book,
you and the author are alone together—just the two of you."
-- EB WHITE


“It’s not about what someone can do for you,
it’s who and what the two of you
become in each other’s presence.”
-- RONALD SHARP


“You can build something beautiful
even from the stones that are put in your way.”
-- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Viktor E. Frankl

2271


“He who has a why to live for
can bear almost any how.”
-- FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE


“Remember how long you’ve been putting this off,
how many extensions the gods gave you,
and you didn’t use them.”
-- MARCUS AURELIUS


“One day you will wake up and
there won’t be any more time
to do the things you’ve always wanted.
Do it now.”
-- PAULO COELHO


"Time has a wonderful way
of showing us what really matters."
-- MARGARET PETERS


“The best way to escape from a problem
is to solve it.”
-- ALAN SAPORTA


"Sooner or later,
those who win
are those who think they can."
-- PAUL TOURNIER


"Better fare hard with good men
than feast it with bad."
-- THOMAS PAINE

2302


“Instinct is a marvelous thing.
It can neither be explained
nor ignored.”
-- AGATHA CHRISTIE


“The bravest sight in the world
is to see a great man
struggling against adversity.”
-- SENECA


“Be guided by beauty. I really mean that.
I think pretty much everything I’ve done
has had an aesthetic component—at least to me."
-- JIM SIMONS


"We are continually faced
with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
-- JOHN W. GARDNER


“Preserve your memories, keep them well,
what you forget you can never retell.”
-- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT


“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love.
These things cannot be bought—they must be earned.”
-- NAVAL RAVIKANT


"My home is not a place, it is people."
-- LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD

2330



“Find your own way and God will help you!”
-- JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER


"The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power."
-- NINON DE LENCLOS


"Grief does not change you, it reveals you."
-- JOHN GREEN


“Miracles are not contrary to nature,
but only
contrary to what we know about nature.”
-- SAINT AUGUSTINE


“Human happiness and moral duty
are inseparably connected.”
-- GEORGE WASHINGTON


"Sure I am of this,
that you have only to endure
to conquer."
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL


"Don't rule out working with your hands.
It does not preclude using your head."
-- ANDY ROONEY

Read my signature

AUTUMN QUOTES



"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
— ALBERT CAMUS


"Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence."
— YOKO ONO


"I would rather sit on a pumpkin,
and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
— HENRY DAVID THOREAU


"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
— L.M. MONTGOMERY Anne of Green Gables


"Love the trees until their leaves fall off,
then encourage them to try again next year."
— CHAD SUGG


"It was a beautiful bright autumn day,
with air like cider and
a sky so blue you could drown in it."
— DIANA GABALDON Outlander


"I loved autumn,
the one season of the year
that God seemed to have put there
just for the beauty of it."
— LEE MAYNARD



"It's the first day of autumn!
A time of hot chocolatey mornings,
and toasty marshmallow evenings,
and, best of all,
leaping into leaves!"
— WINNIE THE POOH Pooh's Grand Adventure

MORE AUTUMN QUOTES



"The leaves fall, the wind blows,
and the farm country slowly changes from
the summer cottons into its winter wools."
— HENRY BESTON



"Life starts all over again
when it gets crisp in the fall."
– F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The Great Gatsby



"Autumn is the mellower season,
and what we lose in flowers
we more than gain in fruits."
— SAMUEL BUTLER



"There is something incredibly nostalgic and
significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves."
— JOE L. WHEELER



"Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves!"
— HUMBERT WOLFE



"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
as I have seen in one autumnal face."
— JOHN DONNE The Autumnal



"You expected to be sad in the fall.
Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees
and their branches were bare against
the wind and the cold, wintery light.
But you knew there would always be the spring,
as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.
When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring,
it was as though a young person died for no reason."
— ERNEST HEMINGWAY A Moveable Feast

...

2401


“Most human beings have an almost
infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
-- ALDOUS HUXLEY


“Men did not love Rome because she was great.
She was great because they had loved her.”
-- G K CHESTERTON


“I had rather be on my farm
than be emperor of the world.”
-- GEORGE WASHINGTON


“The safety of the people shall be the Highest Law.”
-- MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO


“As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
-- ALBERT SCHWEITZER


"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far"
-- THEODORE ROOSEVELT


"Readers are plentiful;
thinkers are rare."
-- HARRIET MARTINEAU

EVEN MORE AUTUMN QUOTES



"Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go."
-- ANONYMOUS


"Autumn carries more gold in its pocket
than all the other seasons."
— JIM BISHOP


"Don't you love New York in the fall?
It makes me want to buy school supplies.
I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils
if I knew your name and address."
— NORA EPHRON


"Just as a painter needs light in order
to put the finishing touches to his picture,
so I need an inner light,
which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn."
— LEO TOLSTOY


"Is not this a true autumn day?
Just the still melancholy that I love—
that makes life and nature harmonize."
— GEORGE ELIOT


"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as
sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness into you,
and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop away from you
like the leaves of Autumn."
— JOHN MUIR The Mountains of California


"Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."
— JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Indian Summer


"The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer.
One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider."
— JANE HIRSHFIELD The Heat of Autumn


"Fall has always been my favorite season.
The time when everything bursts with its last beauty,
as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale."
— LAUREN DeSTEFANO Wither


"Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end."
— RéMY DE GOURMONT

SOME MORE AUTUMN QUOTES


"Why is summer mist romantic and
autumn mist just sad?"
— DODIE SMITH I Capture the Castle


"Autumn is the hardest season.
The leaves are all falling,
and they're falling like
they're falling in love with the ground."
— ANDREA GIBSON


"Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly.
They take their time and wander
on this their only chance to soar."
— DELIA OWENS Where the Crawdad Sings


"Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...
the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street..
by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese."
— HAL BORLAND


"Never let me lose what I have gained,
and adorn the branches of your river
with leaves of my estranged Autumn."
— FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA


"If you run,
then allow those first few breaths
on a cool Autumn day
to FREEZE your lungs
and do not just be alarmed,
be ALIVE."
— KYLE LAKE


"It was one of those perfect
English autumnal days which occur
more frequently in memory than in life."
— P.D. JAMES A Taste for Death


"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious
as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
— NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE


"Nostalgia - that's the Autumn,
Dreaming through September
Just a million lovely things
I always will remember."
— JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS


"Give me juicy autumnal fruit,
ripe and red from the orchard."
— WALT WHITMAN

"My beloved October has returned—with its brilliant colors, cool temperatures and sunny, cloudless, azure skies, and I must enjoy it before it escapes for another year." — Peggy Toney Horton, Somewhere in Heaven My Mother Is Smiling

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." — Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ann of Green Gables

"Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life"
-- Jerzy Gregory



"Men must live and create.
Live to the point of tears."
-- Albert Camus



"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
-- Sharon Begley



"Memories of our lives,
of our works and
our deeds will continue in others."
-- Rosa Parks



"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get.
But if you work really hard and
you’re kind, amazing things will happen."
-- Conan O’Brien



"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
-- Mary Pickford



"Persistence overshadows even talent
as the most valuable resource
shaping the quality of life. "
-- Tony Robbins


"I don’t dream at night,
I dream all day;
I dream for a living."
-- Steven Spielberg


"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around"
-- Henry David Thoreau

2474

“In the woods, we return to reason and faith.”
-- RALPH WALDO EMERSON


“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
-- ERNEST HEMINGWAY


“Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.”
-- CONFUCIUS


"There is no doubt
that it is around the family
and the home
that all the greatest virtues are created."
-- WINSTON CHURCHILL


“We can only hope that all our friends and families
can live long lives, looking at the moon together,
across a thousand miles.”
-- SU DONGPO


“Duty is ours,
results are God's.”
-- JOHN ADAMS


“Above all,
don't lie to yourself.”
-- FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.-John Lennon

The Beatles saved the world from boredom-George Harrison

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.-John Lennon

The Beatles saved the world from boredom-George Harrison


The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground
is you never get to take your pants off.
-- RINGO STARR


I doubt very much The Beatles would have happened
if it was not for Elvis.
-- PAUL McCARTNEY

The saying "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" is used to say that people who have faults should not criticize other people for having the same faults.


Read it and swallow this folks..

Imagine == John Lennon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgkThdzX-8

I followed a former catholic priest and his book was Imagine No Religion....helped me to change as I have...

This isn't famous but it otta be:

Some say Opposites Attract in Relationships, But They Shouldn't!!!!!!!!!

Your right!

"People say law, but they mean wealth." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"God help England if she had no Scots to think for her." -- George Bernard Shaw

"If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Technically, I'm not a guitar player. All I play is truth and emotion." -- Jimi Hendrix

"There is deity within you." -- Robin Williams

"It's the karma credit plan: Buy now, pay forever." -- Robin Williams

"This is an impressive crowd. The haves and the have-mores. Some call you the elite. I call you my base." -- President George W. Bush, 2001

2673

24 YEARS AGO...

I never went to high school reunions.
My thing is, out of sight, out of mind.
That's my attitude toward life.
So I don't have any romanticism
about any part of my past.
-- John Lennon


The Beatles were "more popular than Jesus"
-- John Lennon (March 1966 Interview)


I'll probably be popped off by some loony.
-- John Lennon


I don't intend to be a performing flea any more.
I was the dream weaver, but although I'll be around
I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour
trying to prove myself.
I don't want to die at 40.
-- John Lennon


John Lennon was shot at 5 times
with five hollow-point bullets from a .38 special revolver,
four of which hit Lennon in the back.
John was pronounced dead on arrival
at 11:15 p.m. December 8 1980 at age 40.

John Lennon was murdered by a Christian fan of the Beatles,
Mark David Chapman,
who later stated that Lennon's quote
"More popular than Jesus"
was a motivating factor in the killing.

"I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." -- Clarence Darrow

"Words are a potent power, my friend, if you know how to use them properly." -- Ben Cartwright (TV character)

"Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear, and greed." -- Albert Einstein

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" - Some Astronaut said this......

2975

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" - Some Astronaut said this......

Cue Dude's theme song "If I Only Had A Brain"

"The only thing we have to fear is … fear itself "
-- President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) at his 1933 Presidential Inauguration

2989

"Rest satisfied with doing well,
and
leave others to talk of you as they please."
-- Pythagoras

OOOPS Thanx Foggy!

3002


"Knowing ignorance is strength:
Ignoring knowledge is sickness"
--Lao Tzu

What does 3002 mean in your reply Foggy???

3020
What does 3002 mean in your reply Foggy???


"That, sir, is for me to know and you to never find out"
-- In a Elephind newspaper from 1866
(Italic and underline word in quote is my add)

Ah man!!

3037

"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."
-- Helen Rowland

"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."
-- Aldo Leopold

"It ain't the heat, it's the humility."
-- Yogi Berra

"We have a system that increasingly taxes work
and subsidizes nonwork."
-- Milton Friedman

"No occupation is so delightful to me
as the culture of the earth,
and no culture comparable
to that of the garden."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night,
I'll bet they'd live a lot differently."
-- Bill Watterson


"We are an impossibility
in an impossible universe."
-- Ray Bradbury


"I used to jog
but the ice cubes
kept falling out of my glass."
-- David Lee Roth


"Cherish all your happy moments;
they make a fine cushion for old age."
-- Booth Tarkington


"A man is already halfway in love
with any woman who listens to him."
-- Brendan Behan

3102

“To be successful at anything, the truth is you don’t
have to be special. You just have to be what most
people aren’t:
consistent,
determined,
and willing to work for it.”
– Tom Brady


"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."
- George Halas


"He has achieved success who has worked well,
laughed often,
and loved much."
- Elbert Hubbard


"Art does not reproduce what we see;
rather,
it makes us see."
- Paul Klee


"There's a great power in words,
if you don't hitch too many of them together."
- Josh Billings


"For every complex problem
there is an answer that is clear,
simple,
and wrong."
-- H. L. Mencken


"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."
-- Helen Hayes


"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."
-- A. C. Benson


"Forgiveness is a funny thing.
It warms the heart and cools the sting."
-- William Arthur Ward


"The hardest thing to understand in the world
is the income tax."
-- Albert Einstein


"You don't pay taxes -
they take taxes."
-- Chris Rock

"You're only given one little spark of madness. You musn"t lose it." -- Robin Williams

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ROCK MUSIC QUOTES


“I’m not a rockstar. I’m a rock legend.”
– Gene Simmons

“I’m not a role model…
Just because I dunk a basketball
doesn’t mean I should raise your kids.”
– Alice Cooper

“I don’t know where I’m going from here,
but I promise it won’t be boring.”
– David Bowie

“It’s not easy being a rockstar.
I mean, you have to put up with all that adoration,
all that screaming and cheering.
It’s tough.”
– Freddie Mercury

“Rock and roll music,
if you like it, if you feel it,
you can’t help but move to it.
That’s what happens to me.
I can’t help it.”
-- Elvis Presley

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”
– Warren Zevon

“I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.”
– Freddie Mercury

“I don’t know anything about music.
In my line, you don’t have to.”
– Elvis Presley

“I’m not a rockstar.
I’m a rock ‘n’ roll animal.”
– Bruce Dickinson

“I’m a rock star because
I couldn’t be a soccer star.”
– Rod Stewart

“I’m not a rockstar.
I’m a rock and roll priestess.”
– Stevie Nicks

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

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"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
-- Plato

"A great man is always willing to be little."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect."
-- Mark Twain

"The only thing that interferes with
my learning is my education."
-- Albert Einstein

"Do something worth remembering.'
-- Elvis Presley

"Those who say it can’t be done are
usually interrupted by others doing it."
-- James Baldwin

"I would like to die on Mars.
Just not on impact. "
-- Elon Musk

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I was reading Marcus Aurelius and these are paraphrases that reflect his Stoicism:

- Human ignorance is involuntary, we must be willing to teach. Evil is not from malice, but from ignorance.

- The law of nature always flows, scriptures do not.

- Everything in nature shares the same origin and must be respected.

- Technology should not harm nature.

- Humanity is neither above or below nature.

- The path to virtue is hard and self-reflection is important.

- Hard work and discomfort are essential for success.

- No form of authority holds absolute truth or reason, views and opinions can change.

- Nature constantly changes - is never the same.

- Pleasure and pain is neither good or bad and is unavoidable for both good and bad people. Morality does not equate to good or bad things happening to oneself - karma does not exist.

- Forgiveness is from the self and not from others.

- Wealth and power should be given up if it gets in the way of virtue.

- Fear of a bad reputation can prevent those from doing what is right.

- Nothing is inherently good or bad unless it gets in the way of virtue.

- Being virtuous may require the giving up of ones life.

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

— The Declaration of Independence, 1776

Dave Grohl: "From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most
important rock band all of all time."

Mark Twain: "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

Albert Einstein: "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others."- Amelia Earhart