Dyslexia, you've got that right'!
It's easy to create a child. It is the rest we have so much trouble with. Our kids drive us crazy, keep us sane. We can't waite for them to grow up. We wish they never would.
-Everwood (WB)
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
Do not put nickles into the quarter slots.
Posterity - you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
-- John Quincy Adams
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts ... in which all religions agree.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
-- Edmund Burke
The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.
-- George Washington
Hope ... means ... a continual looking forward to the eternal world.... It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.... It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither.
-- C. S. Lewis
Wear the cape; Never let the cape wear you.
-- Siegfried & Roy
The good old days weren't so good when you were sitting in a dentist's chair.
-- Bobby Bowden
Sometimes I think there's no reason to get out of bed... then I feel wet, and I realize there is.
-- Homer Simpson
There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.
-- Garry Shandling
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
-- Tacitus
All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it.
-- Syrus
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
-- Demosthenes
No one reaches a high position without daring.
-- Syrus
To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice.
-- Confucius
He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a fool forever.
-- Tillotson
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
-- Pliny the Younger
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
-- Edmund Burke
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
-- Plautus
In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
-- Horace
Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.
-- John F. Kennedy
I'm so cool, you can keep a side of meat on me for a week.
I'm so hip, I can't see above my pelvis.
-Zaphoid Bebblebrox (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
Don't try to weird me out, I get stranger things then you in my breakfast cereal.
-Zaphoid Bebblebrox (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right." - H.L. Mencken
The mob riots, goes out in search of bread and in the process, destroys the bakeries.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset- "The Revolt of the Masses"
I know God promises not to give me more than I can handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa
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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
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"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength." -Evenius
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"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." -Joel Hawes
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"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." -Robert H. Goddard
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"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future." -Charles F. Kettering
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Thoughts tremble, they are unsteady, they wander at their will.
It is good to control them, and to master them brings happiness.
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, no one can help you as much.
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world. - Buddha (563-483 BC)
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"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." -Helen Keller
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"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." -William Ellery Channing
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"Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly.
They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it.
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before." -James Buckham
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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -Helen Keller
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"I know nothing really ends the pain except time.
Remember that you are brave for having dared to love,
and you will be stronger when you dare to love again." -Unknown
I have not here in 7 years and I Googled a quote I had written down to see if I could find it...and this thread came up. I totally forgot about this place. One it's way different. Two it use to be called NewYorkBuzz or something like that....and it's weird. I'm glad. It brought up a lot of old things. I don't even use this screen name (the name itself) ever.
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