Quotes Corner

**shible** · 10-26-2007

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

-- Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."

-- Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great
pleasure."

-- Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the
dictionary."

-- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"

-- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time
reading it."

-- Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I
know."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."

-- Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved
of it."

-- Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

-- Oscar Wilde

**shible** · 11-20-2007

“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.”
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester’

”Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”
Phyllis Diller

“Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.”
Unknown

“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things which cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”
Reinhold Niebuhr

“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
Frank Outlaw

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
Plato

**00:00** · 11-20-2007

"Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." ~ Anonymous

**shible** · 12-09-2007

“Sleep, riches and health; to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.”
Jean Paul Richter

“Decisions determine destiny.”
Frederick Speakman

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Muriel Strode

“When you can’t have what you want, it’s time to start wanting what you have.”
Kathleen A. Sutton

“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.”
Turkish proverb

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
Sun Tzu

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Albert Einstein

“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Friedrich Neitzsche

“He who hesitates is a ****ed fool.”
Mae West

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
Henry David Thoreau

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Sir Winston Churchill

“When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there.”
Japanese proverb

“You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.”
James Allen

“Those who await not gifts from chance have conquered fate.”
Mathew Arnold

“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
Yogi Beri

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
Henry David Thoreau