| Quote Collection | Short Quotes | Food for Thought | 7/24/09 |
Joined: 11 Mar 2006
Posts: 103878
Likes: 49517
Location: Gambleville
3404621.10 NLN Dollars
Tournament Dollars
|
Quote Collection | Short Quotes | Food for Thought | 7/24/09
FRIDAY'S QUOTATIONS - "Food For Weekend Thought" 2009-07-24 Assembled by R. VARGA
FRIDAY’S QUOTATIONS // July 24th, 2009
"People with clear, written goals accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine."
- Brian Tracy
"Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
- Flannery O'Connor
"If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn."
- Josh Billings
"It's a sad time when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you."
- Lillian Hellman
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
- Anne Lamott
"True charity is the desire to be useful to someone with no thought of recompense in return."
- Emanuel Swedenborg
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."
- Salvador Dali
"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
- Kimberly Johnson
"The American Republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
"Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others."
- Alain de Botton
"A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread."
- Henry David Thoreau
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."
- Abraham Lincoln
"If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?"
- George Carlin
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something."
- Wilson Mizner
"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato."
- Lewis Grizzard
"Let not the sun go down upon your wrath."
- Ephesians 4:26
"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds ceases to be a charity and is only pride and ostentation.
- William Hutton
"When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
- Unknown
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
_________________
|
|
Age: 77
Joined: 30 Aug 2007
Posts: 1601
Likes: 1796
Location: Texas
948990.00 NLN Dollars
Tournament Dollars
|
Thanks for those, you always come up with a mix of great ones  ...serious and fun.
|
|
