Quotes of Note
June 25th, 2008. Filed under: Wednesday's Wonders.I’ve seen several interesting quotes recently, and I’m sharing some of them with you. Do you have any to share?
“It’s a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure…you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it.” Bob Proctor
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” John Greenleaf Whittier
“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.” General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
“You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart.” Fred Allen
“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” Martha Washington
“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.” Herbert Hoover
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” Chinese proverb
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” George Bernard Shaw
June 26th, 2008 at 21:43
‘Live! Life’s a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!’
Roselind Russell playing ‘Auntie Mame’ 1958
loved that movie but hated the remake with Lucille Ball
and here is one I’m trying to take to heart
‘Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.’
Alice Walker