Quotable Quotes

[Iceman]

"They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing."
-Hindu Proverb

 

[Iceman]

"He who says he never needs help, most does."
-Malcolm Forbes

 

[Iceman]

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it
will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
-Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

 

[Iceman]

" Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. "

W C Fields (1880 - 1946)

 

[Iceman]

Never settle for anything less that extraordinary or else life will
suck. It might
suck anyway, but it's better to suck with
integrity.
--Frankie, Dream for an Insomniac

 

[oldminer]

The W.C. Fields quote remined me of the one that goes as follows:

Doctor: Young lady, you are very ill. You'll need to give up booze, overeating, staying up late at night and cigars.

Pretty young thing: But, Doctor, I don't drink, I watch what I eat, I go to sleep early each night and I don't smoke cigars.

W.C. Fields comments: Poor dear, she was like a ship sinking with no ballast to throw overboard.

 

[Iceman]

W.C. Fields was one of a kind

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“Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.”
- Og Mandino

 

[Iceman]

"Nutrition... has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food
faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly... "
-Adelle Davis (1904-1974)

 

[Iceman]

"If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your
life will be safe, expedient and thin."
-Katharine Butler Hathaway

 

[Iceman]

“In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.”
-Louis Pasteur

 

[Iceman]

“In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.”
-Louis Pasteur

 

[Iceman]

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones
most responsive to change.”
-Charles Darwin

 

[Iceman]

“One man with courage makes a majority.”
-Andrew Jackson, 19-century President

 

[Iceman]

“Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.”
-The Lion from The Wizard of Oz

 

[Richard Sherwood]

Winston Churchill's commencement speech delivered to a post-war graduating class at Oxford University. The shortest commencement address in history.

Each line was delivered with a more vociferous emphasis than the line before, and as he walked off the podium after delivering the third line, the audience lept to their feet as one in thunderous applause:

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"Never give up."

"Never Give Up!"

"NEVER GIVE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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[Richard Sherwood]

Yelled out by a visiting young monk who unknowingly followed a crowd to the Coliseum in ancient Rome, wondering what all the ruckus was about.

When two gladiators began to fight to the death, he jumped down into the arena and ran between them, crying -

"STOP THIS MADNESS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!"

The two gladiators that he was attempting to fend off each other both ran him through with their swords in the midst of their bloodlust.

In shock after realizing what they had done, the gladiators dropped their swords while staring at the monk's fallen body in shock. They then stepped back and looked up at Caesar, and the crowd.

One by one, starting with the oldest, spectators rose from their seats in silence, and left. Eventually Caesar did the same, and the Coliseum emptied out.

There was never another gladiatorial combat ever held in the Coliseum...

 

[Iceman]

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired
during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

[Iceman]

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas

 

[Iceman]

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times'

 

[Iceman]

You see, but you do not observe.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) A Scandal in Bohemia, 1892

 

[Iceman]

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker

 

[Iceman]

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
John Dryden

 

[Iceman]

“No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least
five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.”
-Dr. Joyce Brothers

 

[Iceman]

“Here’s the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.”
-Richard Bach

 

[Iceman]

“It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.”
-Ewing

 

[Heyjud]

Freedom, well, that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone. - The Eagles, Desperado

 

[emnightingale]

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

-Margaret Mead

 

[Iceman]

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men
are afraid of the light.”
-Plato

 

[Iceman]

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are
rich.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961

 

[Iceman]

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's
work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)