January 29, 201016 yr Since I was a teenager I've made it a habit to write down and keep quotations that I find some wisdom in, or sometimes just generally find funny. I've got a pretty big pile of them now, but here are a handful to start off: If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on. - Lou Holtz A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. -C.S. Lewis I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. -C.S. Lewis Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -Leonardo da Vinci I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. -Frederick Douglas Don't give up. Don't ever give up. -Jimmy Valvano When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. -Mark Twain Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde
January 29, 201016 yr I love quotes as well. I have massive book of quotations at home. I hae a copy of "Peter's Quotations - Ideas for our Times" on the shelf. Here's one that's not in there: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
January 29, 201016 yr "I sometimes sit and think, but I usually just sit." This was in my dad's High School Annual by him. I am not sure if that comes from somewhere else or not, but it always makes me crack a smile.
January 29, 201016 yr 3 of my favorite Teddy Roosevelt quotes: "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." "...the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done." "Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger."
January 29, 201016 yr "I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy." - W. C. Fields
January 29, 201016 yr "This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force." - Dorothy Parker
January 29, 201016 yr I love quotes as well. I have massive book of quotations at home. That just went up on my facebook status! :thumb:
January 29, 201016 yr "I've driven over this bridge many, many times. It's plenty wide." -- the late Senator Ted Kennedy "Put another slice of ham on there." -- Mama Cass "Sting rays are very gentile animals" -- Steve Irwin
January 29, 201016 yr "The rich must live more simply, so that the poor may simply live." -- M.K. Gandhi
January 30, 201016 yr The reward for a job well done is having done it. Jonas Salk 12 April 1955 upon the validation of the Polio Vaccine
January 30, 201016 yr If I asked people what they wanted they would have said faster horses. Henry Ford
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