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Saturday, October 19, 2024

Some Random Thoughts


Here are some thoughts to consider on a sunny afternoon:

 

February is the border between winter and spring.  (Terri Guillemets)

 

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.  (William C. Bryant

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.  (William Arthur Ward)

Some stranger somewhere remembers you because you were kind to them when none else was. (Terri Simber)

 

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied 10 minutes later.  (George Patton)

 

 

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. (Percy Ross)

 

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

 

Be kind to unkind people - They need it the most. (Aldo Leopold)

 

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.  (Edward Langley)
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television.  What happens is that the family "gets together" alone.  (Ashley Montagu)

 

Always borrow money from a pessimist.  They don't expect to get it back.  (Unknown source)

 

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.  (William Hudson)

 

Not to decide is to decide.  (Harvey Cox)

 

Work is the greatest thing in the world – so we should always save some for tomorrow.  (Don Herold)

 

An executive is one who never puts off until tomorrow what he can get someone else to do today. (Unknown source)

 

He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is apt to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.  (Ling Po)

 

A person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned sixty or seventy times as much as the person who hasn't (Mark Twain)

 

If you are unhappy in your career choice after giving it a fair shake, quit.  Leave it and look for an opportunity that will make you happy.  No matter how well a job pays, if it is drudgery, it isn't worth it.  (Ed Koch)

 

I love acting.  It is so much more real than life.  (Oscar Levant) 

 

Always listen to the experts.  They'll tell you what can't be done and why.  Then do it.  (Robert Heinlein)

 

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.  (Helen Gurley Brown)

 

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. (Igor Stravinsky)

 

Remember always that all of us, you and I especially, are descended from immigrants.  (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

 

The time to prepare a roof is when the sun is shining.  (John F. Kennedy)

 

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.  (Daniel Auber)

 

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.  (John Ruskin)

 

My friends have made the story of my life.  In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation. (Helen Keller)

 

Sometimes the news is in the noise and sometimes the news is in the silence.  (Thomas Friedman)

 

A preposition is something you never end a sentence with. (Jill Etherington)

 

A pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.  (Marty Feldman)

  

If fans don't want to come to the ballpark, no one's going to stop them.  (Yogi Berra)

 

 



 

 

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