INTERESTING QUOTES
Sometimes the difficulties God takes you through are not for you but for somebody else- for someone who is watching you and seeing how you react to and handle something.
-J. R. Ricks
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you'?
-William A. Ward
Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.
-Charles Swindoll
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who only have interest.
-John Stuart Mill
Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die.
-Abraham Lincoln
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn by no other way.
-Mark Twain
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
-Franklin P. Adams
"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."
-African Proverb
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-Walter Winchell
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
-Laurence J. Peter
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning "lousy hunter."
-Andy Rooney
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
-Ben Lindsey
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
-Bill Gates (in 1981)
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
-Samuel Butler
It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
-Sitting Bull
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs … jolted by every pebble in the road.
-Henry Ward Beecher
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-Abraham Lincoln
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
-Henry Ward Beecher
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
-Aldous Huxley
I was like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
-Isaac Newton
Truth at its worst is better than a cover-up at its best.
-David Grubbs
We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.
-Robert Urich
You don't know how much you don't know until your children grow up and tell you how much you don't know.
-S. J. Perelman
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
-Andrew Jackson
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
-Calvin Coolidge
There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.
-Martin Buxbaum
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
-Chinese Proverb
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
-Mencius
Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
-Philip Dormer Stanhope
Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.
-Arthur Koestler
Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
-Charles Schulz
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-Thomas A. Edison
A fool judges people by the presents they give him.
-Chinese Proverb
You never know when you're making a memory.
-Rickie Lee Jones
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
-Andy Rooney
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