December 2008

Quotable Quotes

“Life is like a grindstone: Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of.” – Anonymous

“It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.” – Christian Bovee

“Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.”  –Malcolm Forbes 

November 2008 Quotes - Happy Thanksgiving

Quotable Quotes:

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets.  I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?  ~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.  ~Author Unknown

Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.  ~Michael Dresser

March/April 2008 Quotes

• No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.~Proverb
• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.~Anne Bradstreet
• It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.~Charles Dickens
  

General Quotes

• The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
  Stanley J. Randall
• Not only are [the fallen] commemorated by columns and inscriptions, but there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but on the hearts of men.
  Pericles, Athenian - 5th century B.C.
• Very often, the only way out is through.
  Robert Frost
• There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
  Unknown
• The best gifts are not things but opportunities.
  “Oklahoma Cooking” 1976
• The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
  Stanley J. Randall
• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.
  Albert Einstein
• To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is worse.
  John Quincy Adams
• Virtues are habits of the heart.
  Unknown
• Great necessities call our great virtues.
  Abigail Adams
• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
  G.K. Chesterton
• We hold these truths to be self evident; that all men are created equal. -Thomas Jefferson
• Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. -Unknown
• Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
  Woodrow Wilson
• Whatever you are, be a good one.
  Abraham Lincoln
• Life’s biggest lessons are the most expensive.
  Joseph Conover Sr.
• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
  Cicero
• There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all American’s who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to… Thanksgiving Day…. Is the only day that is purely American.
  O. Henry
• No duty is more urgent that that of returning thanks.
  St. Ambrose
• People want change. They just don't want it to be different.
  Dale Wight
• Expect the best, plan for the worst and prepare to be surprised.
  Denis Waitley
• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
  Thomas Jefferson
• Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
  Wayne Calloway former CEO of PepsiCo
• Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
  Saint Exupery
• May you have warmth in your igloo,
  Oil in your lamp,
  And peace in your heart.
  Eskimo Toast
• Eat wisely, but not too well, and talk well, but not too wisely.
  Somerset Maugham
• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
  Benjamin Disraeli
• Minutes are worth more than dollars, spend them wisely!
  Thomas P. Murphy
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
  Aristotle
• People don’t live by bread alone. They need buttering up once in a while.
  Unknown
• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
  Hamlet, Shakespeare
  

Holiday Toasts

December 2007

• To Happiness:
  "May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far."

• New Years:
  Here's to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old; Here's to the things that are yet to come and the memories that we hold.

• I heard the bells on Christmas Day
  Their old, familiar carols play,
  And wild and sweet and words repeat
  Of peace on earth, good-will to men.
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• May your troubles be less And your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness Come through your door.
  unknown
• May the most you wish for be the least you get.
  unknown
• Here’s to the holly with its bright red berry. Here’s to Christmas, let’s make it merry.
  unknown
• Here’s to us all! God bless us every one!
  A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens