Quotes

[barb754]

Love begins when the needs of someone else become more important
than your own.

 

[brinny]

This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him. ~Conan O'Brien

 

[Pressing_On]

" It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "

Abraham Lincoln- Gettysburg Address

 

[brinny]

"Der is no pit so deep dat da love of God is not deeper still." ~Corrie Ten Boom

 

[brinny]

The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge

 

[brinny]

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

 

[brinny]

Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
~Martin Luther

 

[Faith In God]

"I coulda saved you 50 bucks a week!"
-Mark Lowry bragging about being able to sing a song David Phelps sang.

 

[brinny]

^

 

[Faith In God]

"You can be replaced. I can wear that wig."
-Mark to Jake Hess.

 

[brinny]

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs

 

[leytonstones]

"HE is shaping you down here so you will fit in up there" unknown.

 

[Faith In God]

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed and instead of bleeding, he sings.
-Ed Gardner

 

[GaelSong]

A thing of beauty is a joy forever, it's loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats

 

[Faith In God]

"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them." -Saint Thomas Aquinas

 

[Horselight]

"If you refuse this offer, you will be the most ungrateful, wicked girl!!! And the angels will weep for you!" Professor Higgins (Rex Harrison) in My Fair Lady. We laugh every time we hear it.

 

[brinny]

"I am, as you know, only the servant of the people." ~Abraham Lincoln

 

[Faith In God]

Hey, Brinny! Thanks for the revival.

"Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all of its students."
Robin Williams.

 

[HannahBanana]

My absolute favorite quote is this one:

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I try to always keep that quote in mind, because it's just so true, ya know?

 

[Faith In God]

Absolutely.

"Get pleasure out of your life...as much as you can. No one ever died from too much pleasure."
-An idiot by the name of Sol Hurok.