Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Thoughts I Love

"There is no such thing as 'fun for the whole family.'" (Jerry Seinfeld)

"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle." (Robert Anthony)

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

"It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself." (Hyman G. Rickover)

"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart." (Erma Bombeck)

"Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work or prison." (Tim Allen)

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." (Muhammed Ali)

"Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy." (Henry Kissinger)

"The first duty of love is to listen." (Paul Tillich)

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." (Wayne Gretzky)

"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and to continue to find, grounds for marriage." (Robert Anderson)

"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying." (Fran Lebowitz)

"If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent." (Bette Davis)

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." (Harry S Truman)

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." (Fred Astaire)

"Stick with optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right." (James Reston)

"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you." (Calvin Coolidge)

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." (Leo Tolstoy)

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." (John Holt)

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again." (Franklin P. Jones)

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." (Tom Brokaw)

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln)

"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence." (Jorge Luis Borges)

"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." (Sam Rayburn)

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." (Will Rogers)

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is." (Albert Camus)

5 comments:

Julie T said...

O, how beautiful and how wise the words herein. If only we could employ most of them! :)

McIntire Madness said...

Love'em.

Annica said...

You're right- there is no such thing as fun for the whole family!

Noelle said...

I loved all these quotes, how long have you been collecting those?

NatalieD said...

These were taken from my Reader's Digest "Wit and Wisdom" book.