Holy Smokes… More Quotes
Experience is not what
happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. – Aldous Huxley
Eat a live toad the first
thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. –
Unknown
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
If you can't
feed a hundred people, then just feed one. - Mother Teresa
There are 350 varieties of
shark, not counting loan and pool. - L.
M. Boyd
If a man insisted always on
being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would
go mad or become unstable without knowing it. – Herodotus
Most people are so busy
living they neglect to take the time to ask why. – Gene Simmons
Your rewards will be
determined by the extent of your contribution, that is
your service to others. - Earl Nightingale
When you have told anyone
you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is die
at once. – Samuel Butler
One person with a belief is
equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interest. – John Stewart Mill
What concerns me is not the
way things are but rather the way people think things are. - Epictetus
Snow and adolescence are the
only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. – Earl Wilson
Study nature,
love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd
Wright
The real winners in life are
the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make
it work or make it better. - Barbara Pletcher
A baby is born with a need
to be loved and never outgrows it. - Frank A. Clark
I don't want to achieve
immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen
It is bad luck to be
superstitious. - Andrew W. Mathis
If you can’t be a highway,
just be a trail. If you can’t be the sun, be a star.
It isn’t by size that you win or you fail, it’s by being the best of whatever
you are. –Unknown
In times like these, it
helps to recall that there have always been times like these. - Paul Harvey
We have met the enemy and he
is us. – Pogo (Walt Kelly)
I never took hallucinogenic
drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one iota. – Fran Lebowitz
The
time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. – Bertrand Russell
If you’re going to do
something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow – sleep late. – Henny Youngman
If there's no wind, row.
- Unknown
Our fatigue is often caused not
by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. – Dale Carnegie
Until you walk a mile in
another man’s moccasins you can’t imagine the smell. – Robert Byrne
Anger
is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less
than he had been before - it takes something from him. - Louis L'Amour
Life is something that
happens when you can’t get to sleep. – Fran Lebowitz
Do not confuse motion and
progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. - Alfred
A. Montapert
Illegal
aliens have always been a problem in the
What's going on in the inside, shows on the outside. - Earl Nightingale
A man is literally what he
thinks. - Abraham Lincoln
To do something, however
small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most
elevating hope, which can inspire a human being. - John Lubbock
Man has to suffer. When he
has no real afflictions, he invents some. - Jose Marti
Don’t take life so serious,
son, it ain’t nohow permanent. – Pogo (Walt Kelly)
Limitations live only in our
minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. -
Jamie Paolinetti
They certainly give very
strange names to diseases. - Plato
I don't mind what Congress
does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo
A successful person is one
who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. -
David Brinkley
Argue for your limitations
and they are yours. - Richard Bach
I feel like a fugitive from
the law of averages. - William H.
Mauldin
It matters not what road we
take but rather what we become on the journey. - Michael E. Angier
The time to repair the roof
is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy
A baby is God’s opinion that
the world should go on. – Carl Sandburg
Like its politicians and its
war, society has the teenagers it deserves. – Joseph Priestley
Most conversations are
simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. - Margaret Millar
My idea of an agreeable
person is a person who agrees with me. – Benjamin Disraeli
Over every mountain there is
a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. - James Rogers
Most turkeys taste better
the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. - Rita Rudner
If we are forced, at every
hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly
impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for
humanity. –
Your time is limited, so
don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is
living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of
other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most
important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They
somehow already know what you truly want to become. - Steve Jobs
No matter where you go…
there you are. – Buckaroo Banzai
Never
raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. –
Robert Orben
I don't like people who are
in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into
show business. - Elvis Presley
Every single one of us can
do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love.
We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You
know what to do. - Barbara Sher
My Grandmother is over
eighty and still doesn’t need glasses.
Drinks right out of the bottle. – Henny
Youngman
The greater danger for most
of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low
and we reach it. – Michelangelo
Rudeness is the weak man's
imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer
Everybody's got to believe
in something. I believe I'll have another beer.
- W. C. Fields
Spread love everywhere you
go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without
leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness;
kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. - Mother Teresa
Eternity’s a terrible
thought. I mean, where’s it all going to
end? – Tom Stoppard
Don't put the key to your
happiness in someone else's pocket. – Unknown
Success is how high you
bounce when you hit bottom. - General George Patton
Think of all the
beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank
Triangular sandwiches taste
better than square ones. – Peter Kay
That you may retain your
self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is
right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. - William J. H. Boetcker
Do your work with your whole
heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition. - Elbert Hubbard
It is amazing what you can
accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S Truman
By the time a man realizes
that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. -
Charles Wadworth
Challenges make you discover
things about yourself that you never really knew. - Cicely Tyson
I have left orders to be awakened
at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a Cabinet meeting. –
Ronald Reagan
We
would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. - Vince
Lombardi
The penalty for laughing in
a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury
would never hear the evidence. - H. L.
Mencken
When the power of love
overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. - Jimi
Hendrix
I
was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the light. – Rita Rudner
In the end, everything is a
gag. - Charlie Chaplin
The nine most terrifying
words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to
help.” – Ronald Reagan
It is a funny thing about
life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. -
W.
It is impossible to enjoy
idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. - Jerome K. Jerome
If Beethoven had been killed
in a plane crash at age 22, it would have changed the history of music… and of
aviation. – Tom Stoppard
The best place to find a
helping hand is at the end of your own arm. - Swedish proverb
A
friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you
when you have forgotten the words. – Unknown
I
got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine. – Rita Rudner
God doesn't require that we
succeed; He only requires that we try. - Mother Theresa
Man's mind is not a
container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled. - Charles Kettering
Quality means
doing it right when no one is looking. - Henry Ford
When
someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always
wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
- George Carlin
You can say any foolish thing
to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, “My God, you're right! I
never would've thought of that!” - Dave Barry
The future belongs to those
who believe in their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
If you raise your children
to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will
have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest
of all blessings. - Brian Tracy
The most remarkable thing
about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but
leftovers. The original meal has never been found. - Calvin Trillin
Envy someone an' it pulls
you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense? - Elvis
Presley
Facts do not cease to exist
because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
I'm at an age where I think
more about food than I do about sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining
room table. - Rodney Dangerfield
A day without laughter is a
day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin
Outside
noisy, inside empty. -
Chinese Proverb
Being right half the time
beats being half-right all the time. - Malcolm S. Forbes
Talk is cheap. Words are
plentiful. Deeds are precious. - H Ross Perot
The future is not some place
we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but
made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the
destination. - John Schaar
Life is too important to
take seriously. - Oscar Wilde
Having more money does not
insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people
with nine million dollars. -
Show me a thoroughly
satisfied man and I will show you a failure. - Thomas Edison
As age comes on, one source
of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous
host, she offers her brimming cups in endless
variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls,
decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing.
- John Muir
Never eat more than you can
lift. – Miss Piggy
When we are
unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it
elsewhere. - Francois
de La Rochefoucauld
I read a book on levitation
the other day. I couldn’t put it down. –
Unknown
Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they
see it's wrong, that's a fool. - Elvis Presley
Some of the world's greatest
feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
- Doug Larson
Every person is the creation
of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think
and believe, so they are. - Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
The average man, who does
not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. –
Anatole France
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. - Erma Bombeck
What if everything is an
illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
At
a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest
to the bathroom. - George Carlin
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. – Ralph Waldo
Emerson
One of the greatest
discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he
was afraid he couldn't do. - Henry Ford
Children are apt to live up
to what you believe of them. - Lady Bird Johnson
Life is what happens to you
while you're busy making other plans. - John
Lennon
There is always a well-known
solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong. - H. L. Mencken
Light travels
faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them
speak. – Unknown
Try? There is no try. There is only do or not do. – Yoda
One nice thing
about egotists... they don't talk about other people. - Steven Wright
It's hard to beat a person
who never gives up. - Babe Ruth
If you think you are too
small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. - Betty
Reese
Our attitude
toward life determines life's attitude towards us. - Earl Nightingale
Yesterday I was a dog. Today
I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope
for advancement. – Snoopy (Charles M.
Schulz)
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