"Before you taste anything, recite a blessing." ~Rabbi Akiva
"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." ~Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu)
"You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins."~Jim Stovall~
"The province of knowledge is to speak; the privilege of wisdom is to listen." ~Anon
"Thousands kiss the books outside, who never look within." ~Anon

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Samuel Johnson - kindness

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." ~Samuel Johnson

Edward Abbey- drink and shrink

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“A drink a day keeps the shrink away” ~Edward Abbey

Bernard M. Baruch - opinions and facts

“Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.” ~Bernard M. Baruch

Adele Basheer - destiny

"Listen to the sound of your soul. The truth of your destiny lives in your heart." ~Adele Basheer

Robert Brault - beyond capability

"How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it." ~Robert Brault

Fran Lebowitz - Life

"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep." ~Fran Lebowitz

Education Quotes

"Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled." ~ Wu Ting-Fang

"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't." ~Pete Seeger  

Philip Whitmore Snr - real man

"Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!" ~Philip Whitmore Snr

Max Eastman - sense of humor

"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor." ~Max Eastman

Laurie R. King - tears

"Tears wash away the fear and cool the hate." ~Laurie R. King

Bob Hope - charity

"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." ~Bob Hope

Wilson Mizner - plagiarism and research

"When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. When you steal from many, it's research." ~Wilson Mizner

I Quotes

"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance." ~Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

"I can't complain but sometimes I still do." ~Joe Walsh

"I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art you've got the benefit of all my doubts." ~ Charles Rosin

"I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help just a little bit." ~Susan Glasee

"I do not dream at night, I dream all day, I dream for a living." ~Steven Spielberg

"I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day." ~Frank Sinatra

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book." ~Groucho Marx

"I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn’t judge you." ~Debra Winger

"I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking." ~Joyce Grenfell

"I have often depended on the blindness of strangers." ~Adrienne E. Gusoff

"I have such poor vision I can date anybody." ~Garry Shandling

"I have thought too much to stoop to action." ~Adam De Lisle

"I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion." ~Themistocles

"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers someone is taking the time to plant some." ~Herbert Rappaport

"I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent" ~Ashleigh Brilliant

















Virginia Woolfe - humor

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue." ~Virginia Woolfe

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Alan Cohen Quotes

“Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.” ~Alan Cohen 

“You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.” ~Alan Cohen

Friday, August 12, 2011

Noah benShea Quotes

"Things don't have to be good for us to be great." ~Noah benShea

"What grows never grows old" ~Noah benShea

Sidney Goff - speak reasonably

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.” ~Sidney Goff on Advice / experience / wisdom

Tyler Perry - walk forward

“It's simple: When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn your back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.” ~Tyler Perry

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Dorothy Allison - life

“I claimed myself and remade my life.” ~Dorothy Allison

Princess Diana Spencer - hang on to that love

"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love." ~Princess Diana Spencer

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - talent

“Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.” ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Monday, August 8, 2011

Henry Neele -sands of life

“On the sands of life sorrow treads heavily, and leaves a print time cannot wash away.” ~Henry Neele

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Marcus Garvey - confidence

“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” ~Marcus Garvey on Defeat

John Lennon - counting

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears." ~John Lennon

Maurice Freehill - dark and light

"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?" ~Maurice Freehill

Caecilius Statius - servant

"Grant us a brief delay impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.' ~Caecilius Statius

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco - give and forget

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.” ~Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Epicurus - wisdom provides

"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." ~Epicurus

Harry S Truman - truth

"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth." ~Harry S Truman

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Sir Richard Steele - Posterity

“We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.” ~Sir Richard Steele

Monday, August 1, 2011

Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

"Conscience is a man's compass." ~Vincent Van Gogh 

"If you hear a voice within you say, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint…and that voice will be silenced." ~Vincent Van Gogh

Charles Mayes - worth living

"Make sure the thing you’re living for is worth dying for. " ~Charles Mayes

Karen Elizabeth Gordon - either

"Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on." ~Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Germaine Greer - energy

"Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it." ~Germaine Greer

Terri Guillemets Quotes

"Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow." ~Terri Guillemets

"Skin is a covering for our immortality." ~Terri Guillemets