Quotes

[Scandia]

Mr.Ed "you know someday I've gotta learn ventriloquism. You'd make a great dummy. "

 

[Lessien]

"I was going to conquer the world, but I got distracted by something sparkly!" --some keychain

 

[If Not For Grace]

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
- Sydney J. Harris
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
- Emily Dickenson

 

[If Not For Grace]

Knowledge is the telling of the past. Wisdom is the predicting of the future.

Genius is eternal patience.

 

[he4rty]

be nice to your children as there the ones who get to choose your retirement home

 

[bfly]

By there fruits ye shall know them. Matthew 7:20

I had rather be be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. Psalms 84:10

 

[If Not For Grace]

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
- Thomas J. Watson
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
- W. Somerset Maugham ​

 

[wishiwuzfamous]

I have a whole book filled with quotes, and I'm always looking for new ones!

Dreams shared woth friends are dreams that survive the light of day

A friend is some one who knows all about you and likes you anyways.

Friendship is love with wings.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -Aristotle

Determine that the thing can and shall be done. And then we shall find the way. -Abe Lincoln

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Someday my ship will come in. But with my luck, I'll be at the airport.

Okay, that's enough for now.

 

[If Not For Grace]

Skydiving is not for me...(LOL)

 

[wishiwuzfamous]

lol! ^

 

[If Not For Grace]

Children raised to fish and hunt do not steal and deal
(bumper sticker)

 

[If Not For Grace]

We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

CS LEWIS

 

[ChrisCountryGirl]

I also keep a collection of quotes that I like too & read them occassionally

 

[writer4him]

there are two tpes of people in the world
thermometers who measure the temp around them and just sit there
Thermastats who measure the temp and do somehitng about it.
-Pastor Tedd

A sorrow shared is but half the trouble.
A joy shared is a joy made double.

 

[Lugus]

The greatest threats to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding. -- US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1928

You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family. -- Robert Darwin, to his son Charles

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who say that there are two kinds of people and those who do not. -- Unknown

The heresy of heresies is common sense. -- George Orwell

I have pledged upon the altar of God Almighty eternal hostility to tyranny over the minds of men. -- Thomas Jefferson

New scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. -- Max Planck

 

[prettyandwitty]

Me? I'm dishonest. A dishonest man, you can always trust to be dishonest. honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for. You can never predict when they are going to do something incredibly stupid.
Jack Sparrow

 

[Lugus]

Carl Jung (paraphrased): We do not become enlightened by visualizing beings of light but by bringing light to the darkness.


PHIL: It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room! Stand up straight! Pick up your feet! Take it like a man! Be nice to your sister! Don't mix beer and wine, ever!' Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'
GUS: Well Phil, that's one I happen to agree with.
Source: Groundhog Day


Einstein (who had a view of reality that did not accept quantum physics) was prone to say things such as: “God may be devious but He is not malicious” and “God doesn’t play dice with the universe.”
N. Bohr (who was another physicist but not quite so well known as Einstein) once responded by saying: “I wish that you would stop telling God what to do.”
I remember reading this somewhere many years ago and it just kind of stuck with me. Unfortunately, I can’t remember where I read it. If anyone knows the source, please post or let me know.



Alfred North Whitehead: The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.


Charles Darwin: Science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.



Science cannot prove anything .... from "Scientists Confront Creationism"
by Laurie R. Godfrey (ed.), p 33



Mark Twain was supposedly asked, “What would men be like without women?”
His response was something like: “Scarce, sir -- mighty scarce.”

 

[If Not For Grace]

Every Saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

(Church Sign Somewhere)

 

[If Not For Grace]

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The Human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William E. Channing

 

[Tindomerel]

If the world didn't suck we'd all fall off.

A good friend will bail you out of prison. A true friend will be sitting next to you saying "Well, that was fun."

(At custums) I have nothing to declare but my genius.
- Oscar Wilde