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Dan Forman
04-19-2009, 4:09 PM
I'm making a collection of sayings or quotes that illustrate various aspects of life, and might make a good departure point for group discussion.

For example, about worry, from Mark Twain: "Some of the worst things in my life never happened"

Or the old chestnut "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink"

If you have any favorites, please post them here. It you know the source of a quote, please include that too. Thanks.

Dan

David G Baker
04-19-2009, 4:21 PM
If it seems to be too good to be true, it probably is.
Source unknown.

Glenn Clabo
04-19-2009, 4:32 PM
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Robert foster
04-19-2009, 5:04 PM
Friends don't sacrifice friends.

Me

Joe Pelonio
04-19-2009, 5:04 PM
My two favorites are in my signature:D

Jason Roehl
04-19-2009, 5:27 PM
There is a such thing as being 'dead right'. (My father always used to tell me that one, usually in reference to driving and how pedestrians have the right-of-way.)

Life is more fun if you're easily amused. (Me)

Ken Fitzgerald
04-19-2009, 5:59 PM
Some things in life are important. Most aren't.

Gene Howe
04-19-2009, 6:20 PM
42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot. Unk.

The work will teach you how to do it. Unk.

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” Will Rodgers

Ed Hazel
04-19-2009, 6:30 PM
There is nothing less common than common sense (?)

Bob Glenn
04-19-2009, 6:59 PM
Ninety percent of statistics are right fifty percent of the time.

Grandpa's favorite.....If you don't stop, you won't get stuck!

Dave Anderson NH
04-19-2009, 7:22 PM
Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right. Unk

Don't sweat the small stuff.....It's almost all small stuff.

Craig Nickles
04-19-2009, 7:41 PM
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - General George S. Patton

"Be polite,be professional, and have a plan to kill everyone you meet" - unknown author

Bruce Shiverdecker
04-19-2009, 7:54 PM
Take care of yourself FIRST. Otherwise you won't be around to help your family, or anyone else!

Bruce

John Keeton
04-19-2009, 7:54 PM
"Those that mind - don't matter. Those that matter - don't mind."

And a take off on Dave's - "Don't sweat the petty stuff, and don't pet the sweaty stuff."

Jim Rimmer
04-19-2009, 8:01 PM
We must endeavor to persevere. Chief Dan Georges as Lone Watie in The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Jerome Hanby
04-19-2009, 8:05 PM
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain

And an original I use when I talk about defensive behavior (like defensive driving).

You can be 100% right and 100% dead at the same time.

Tom Veatch
04-19-2009, 10:22 PM
Life is not a journey to the grave
With the intention of
Arriving safely in a pretty
And well preserved body,
But rather to skid in broadside,
Thoroughly used up,
Totally worn out,
And loudly proclaiming,

WOW !!!! What a ride!

Author unknown

Dan Forman
04-20-2009, 4:06 AM
Thanks, and keep 'em coming.

Dan

Mat Ashton
04-20-2009, 5:17 AM
I always liked Your Mileage May Vary YMMV

Chuck Gregg
04-20-2009, 6:22 AM
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it annoys the pig.

Mike Sheppard
04-20-2009, 6:57 AM
Never fight with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
unknow
Mike

Mike Null
04-20-2009, 7:48 AM
Why is there never enough time to do it right but always enough time to do it over?

Chuck Wintle
04-20-2009, 7:56 AM
He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones!

Bonnie Campbell
04-20-2009, 8:17 AM
Only boring people are bored.... (my mom's favorite)

Al Willits
04-20-2009, 8:22 AM
Hopelessly lost, but making good time..

Al

Kenneth Hertzog
04-20-2009, 8:22 AM
NOT BEIN FOR KNOW'N I CAN'T BE FOR SAY'N

ken

Michael McCoy
04-20-2009, 8:24 AM
I like a slower pace in life. If I have to hurry to get there.... I don't go.

Chuck Saunders
04-20-2009, 8:31 AM
If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Chris Damm
04-20-2009, 8:36 AM
He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones!

Or wild parties!:D

Lee Schierer
04-20-2009, 8:36 AM
My Dad always said: "You win some, you lose some, some get rained out and for others you can't even get tickets." when ever yo uwere confronted with a decison or event that didn't turn out as you might have expected.

Don Newman
04-20-2009, 8:38 AM
If you’re looking for group discussion, try some of the sayings completed by 1st graders

Don't change horses.....until they stop running.

Never underestimate the power of.....termites.

You can't teach an old dog.....new math.

An idle mind is.....the best way to relax.

A penny saved is.....not much.

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and.....you have to blow your nose.

Rob Cunningham
04-20-2009, 8:41 AM
I was sad because I had no shoes,
Then I saw a man who had no feet.


Live for today, and don't worry about tomorrow- The Grass Roots


Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out

Arnold E Schnitzer
04-20-2009, 8:47 AM
Business Creedo:


Underpromise and Overdeliver. (many do the opposite)

Gary Max
04-20-2009, 8:49 AM
Kick someone else


I own a Dodge Ram and don't need the pressure

Ken Werner
04-20-2009, 9:07 AM
Life is a funny thing.

Mitchell Andrus
04-20-2009, 9:08 AM
My sig says it all.
.

Mike Mathieu
04-20-2009, 9:23 AM
Lead, Follow or get the heck out of the way

Dennis Peacock
04-20-2009, 9:26 AM
If it's worth doing....it's worth doing right.

If you don't have anything nice to say....don't say anything at all.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

If it was meant to be? It will be.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink....BUT...if you can make him float on his back? THEN you've got something. :D

America invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off. - Will Rogers

If you ain't got time to do it right? Then don't do it at all.

We'll show the world we are prosperous, even if we have to go broke to do it. - Will Rogers

From around the 1930's: Alexander Hamilton originated the "put and take" system into our national treasury. The tax payers put it in and the politicians take it out. - Will Rogers

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. - Will Rogers

Jim Creech
04-20-2009, 9:31 AM
If you find any mistakes in my work, consider that they are there for a reason! I try to please everyone and there is always someone looking for a mistake!
Unknown

Hard work spotlights the character of people.
Some turn up their sleeves.
Some turn up their noses.
Some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing

Ken Fitzgerald
04-20-2009, 10:06 AM
Never argue with a fool.....a bystander may not be able to tell the difference.

Kevin Arceneaux
04-20-2009, 10:12 AM
There is no such thing as gravity - the earth sucks

Kenneth Hertzog
04-20-2009, 10:15 AM
Never argue with a fool.....a bystander may not be able to tell the difference.
from Ken F.

Never argue with a fool.... they bring you down the their level and beat you with experience.

ken

Clifford Mescher
04-20-2009, 10:26 AM
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Clifford.

Jeff Mohr
04-20-2009, 10:33 AM
"Trying is the first step towards failure." -Homer Simpson

Dennis Brooker
04-20-2009, 10:50 AM
I have 2 favorites - Dennis Brooker

Either you get it or you don't!

John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all, Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Phyllis Meyer
04-20-2009, 11:17 AM
"Where There's A Will...There's A Way"!

Phyllis:)

Jim O'Dell
04-20-2009, 11:50 AM
One I remember on a placque in my Grandmother's bathroom:
The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. True author unknown.

Someone on one of the forums has this in their signature:
"Don't get stuck on stupid." General Honore`

Jim.

Clifford Mescher
04-20-2009, 12:28 PM
Found this morning:"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion." Clifford.

Karlan Talkington
04-20-2009, 12:35 PM
"If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy" - unknown

"No matter where you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Bonzai

Phyllis Meyer
04-20-2009, 12:36 PM
"The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public"

Phyllis:)

Eric DeSilva
04-20-2009, 12:47 PM
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a body.
- Unknown

John Schreiber
04-20-2009, 12:52 PM
Here's a bunch of my favorites:


Life is like a lightbulb. It only works if it is screwed up. (me)


I wish I was a glow worm,
a glowworm is never glum.
How can you be unhappy
when the sun shines out your bum? (unk)


The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." -- Richard P. Feynman


If you’re not going to play the game, don’t cry when you lose. (me)


Adversity is said to be the measure of a man, but to truly know a man, give him power. (me)


Before you criticize another, walk a mile in his shoes. Then you will be a mile away and he will be barefoot. (unk)


Everyone has a story. (me)


Dignity is not negotiable. (Robert Fuller)

Belinda Barfield
04-20-2009, 1:25 PM
My favorite is my sig line about the devil from my grandmother.


"To laugh often and much; To win respect of intelligent people and the affection of children. To leave the world a better place. To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." --Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." —William Cowper

"He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear." —Ralph Waldo Emerson


"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." —Robert Heinlein


The surest way to lose the best in life is to fail to recognize it when you already have it. (unk)


If you’ve reached a dead end, it could be that you’re sitting on it. (unk)


To truly appreciate the beauty and dignity in an old face, you have to take the time to read between the lines. (unk)

When you question your husband’s judgment, just remember that he married you. (unk)


The reason teenagers seem to know all the answers is because they haven’t heard all the questions. (unk)


"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers." Maya Angelou


"Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time." Tallulah Bankhead

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." Erma Bombeck

"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" W. C. Fields

“Learn all you can, but learn to do something, or your learning will be useless and your vision will depart.” —Booker T. Washington


“All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.” —Anne Bronte



Anything can be done with enough time, money, and intellect. – me


Wrinkled is not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up!


It is not the path behind us, but the one before us we must walk - me


Sorry, I "collect" quotations.

Don Newman
04-20-2009, 3:36 PM
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain

Charlie Jones
04-20-2009, 3:49 PM
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord.

Paul of Tarsus

Hubert Carle
04-20-2009, 3:54 PM
My CAD (Computer Aided Design) teacher loves to tell us:

5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions.

Chuck Wintle
04-20-2009, 4:52 PM
When life hands you a lemon make lemonade. :)

Be careful who you p**s of on the way to the top because they will be there on the way down.

Calvin Hobbs
04-20-2009, 4:54 PM
My friend Max in Kansas City used to say:

"If you play with the puppy, you'll get licked in the mouth!"

My friend Rob has a line:

"Dont sweat the petty stuff, and don't pet the sweaty stuff."

Rick Gooden
04-20-2009, 4:56 PM
If frogs carried machine guns, there would be no snakes.

bill kiss
04-20-2009, 5:10 PM
"To do is to be." --- Sartre

" To be is to do." --- Descartes

" Do be do be do." --- Sinatra

Kevin Arceneaux
04-20-2009, 5:41 PM
Have you always been this stupid or is it a lifetime achievement?

Gene Howe
04-20-2009, 6:00 PM
[QUOTE=Craig Nickles;
"Be polite,be professional, and have a plan to kill everyone you meet" - unknown author


Now I have another favorite.:D

Walt Nicholson
04-20-2009, 9:49 PM
Strive every day to be the person your dog thinks you are.;)

Ron Jones near Indy
04-20-2009, 10:29 PM
If you don't want to be treated like an idiot, don't act like an idiot.

Terry Achey
04-20-2009, 11:11 PM
What a fun read this thread is.... thanks for asking, Don!

on the philosophical side......"your choices reflect your values".

and my favorite....on the lighter side..... "you can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led" :D.

Terry

Pat Germain
04-21-2009, 8:20 AM
Today's hard times are tomorrow's gool ole days.

Frank Townend
04-21-2009, 8:23 AM
I will contribute my signature line.

Clifford Mescher
04-21-2009, 12:50 PM
Another favorite of mine:


"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is to be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." Clifford.

Clara Koss
04-21-2009, 1:42 PM
the more i find out about others,,, the more i like myself....jejejejeje...;)

Bob Childress
04-21-2009, 2:04 PM
"Speed, quality, price--pick two." Unk.

"The church is close, but the road is icy. The tavern is far, but I'll walk carefully." --Russian Proverb

"A friend will bail you out if you end up in jail. A mate will be in there with you."--Australian Proverb

"Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate." --Unk.

And one of my favorites: "It is better to ask forgiveness than permission."

Dan Forman
04-21-2009, 2:41 PM
Thanks to all who contributed, and feel free to keep adding.

One of my favorites on the lighter side:

You can lead a horse to drink, but you can't make him water.

Dan

Chris Padilla
04-21-2009, 3:23 PM
Life is like a box of chocolates...

Eddie Watkins
04-21-2009, 5:45 PM
The Golden Rule: The one with the gold rules. unk
I always used this one on my daughter when she was a teenager and wanted to have deep philosophical discussions about my decisions. This ended the discussion(some times);).

Walter Plummer
04-21-2009, 5:46 PM
Mine is from a song. "The work is seldom easy and sometimes its close to hard"

Brian Hough
04-21-2009, 6:20 PM
If everything is going well....Its usually TICKADEE BOO.
From a buddy Mike

Cliff Rohrabacher
04-21-2009, 6:28 PM
No one......

Cliff Rohrabacher
04-21-2009, 6:28 PM
Laugh a lot while you are here.
'Cause you are gonna be dead a long time.

Rory Talkington
04-21-2009, 8:16 PM
"The bended knee is not a custom of this country."

sean m. titmas
04-21-2009, 8:25 PM
"Your body is NOT a temple, its an amusement park so enjoy the ride."

" I don't need your business rather i want your business"

Julie Rose
04-21-2009, 10:36 PM
Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right.
- Henry Ford

He cannot be a gentleman which loveth not a dog.
- John Northbrooke

Brian Effinger
04-21-2009, 10:44 PM
"It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end." - Calvin AKA Bill Waterson

:D

Ed Kilburn
04-21-2009, 11:01 PM
Just a couple of mine:

We the willing led by the unknowing, have been doing so much for so long, with so little, we are now capable of doing everything with nothing.

I refuse to hold a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

We can fix everything, except for two things, the crack of dawn and a broken heart.

Do you want it right or right now?

All good things take time, some more than others.

As well as my tag line.

mark page
04-21-2009, 11:02 PM
Some days your the dog, and some days your the hydrant. Author Unknown.

Belinda Barfield
04-22-2009, 8:34 AM
Just the kind of day I'm having so far . . .

My cow died, so I don't need your bull. :D

Dan Mages
04-22-2009, 8:55 AM
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don't be mean; we don't have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are. Buckaroo Banzai

"It's a dog-eat-dog world, Woody, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear" - Norm from Cheers

And now to pull out my copy of the Dale Carnegie Scrapbook

One ought to turn one's back on the threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Ever! - Winston Chruchill

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk,but hit the line hard. - Theodore Roosevelt

When a thing is done, it is done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. - General George Marshall

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw

We are twice armed if we fight with faith. - Plato

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese Proverb

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. - Benjamin Franklin

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pour fourth its affection to a few esteemed characters. - Thomas Jefferson

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun - Thomas Edison

Always do right. this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain

No one has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. - Abraham Lincoln

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it. - Guiseppe Mazzini

Be ever soft and pliable like a reed, not hard and unbending like a cedar. - The Talmud

Ken Lefkowitz
04-22-2009, 12:15 PM
"Revenge is a dish best served cold.) unk

Bonnie Campbell
04-22-2009, 1:36 PM
What goes around, comes around.....

Lee Mitchell
04-22-2009, 4:05 PM
The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. ~ Oliver W Holmes


Als Ik Kan
Flemish (As best I can)

Lee in NC

Paul Saffold
04-22-2009, 10:04 PM
Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.

travis howe
04-22-2009, 10:28 PM
"Life is tough, it's even tougher when you're stupid."

Bruce Page
04-22-2009, 10:53 PM
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a
friend...if you have one."
--George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second..if there is
one."
--Winston Churchill, in response

Dan Mages
04-23-2009, 9:45 AM
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a
friend...if you have one."
--George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second..if there is
one."
--Winston Churchill, in response

Anecdotely associated with Winston Churchill.
Braddock: "Mr. Churchill, this is a disgrace. You are quite drunk."
Churchill: "And Bessie, you are ugly. You are very ugly. In the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. "

Roger Bell
04-23-2009, 10:49 AM
At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves. Orwell.

phil harold
04-23-2009, 12:25 PM
Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

If you dont have time to do it right the first time,
when are you going to find time the second time?

Wyatt Holm
04-23-2009, 1:02 PM
Most women would prefer beauty than brains... but that is fine because most men can see better than they can think.

Lee DeRaud
04-23-2009, 2:31 PM
If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. - Mickey Mantle

Travel the world, see interesting places, meet new people. Then kill them. - unknown Marine recruiter

Where are we going? And why are we in this handbasket?

(plus my signature stuff, of course. :cool:)

Danny Thompson
04-23-2009, 3:59 PM
Woodwork
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time for no good reason. ~ Jack Handey

Work
Meetings: None of us is as dumb as all of us. ~ despair.com

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. ~ Upton Sinclair

Tech support rules:
1. Always check the facts. People rarely mean what their words mean.
2. Never underestimate the importance of a physical connection--i.e., is it plugged in?
3. There's nothing a little dessert won't fix.
4. Always have three plans for any one meal, just in case.


Life
Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless. ~ the book of Ecclesiastes

The Secret o' Life is enjoying the passage of time. . . . Nobody knows how we got to the top of the hill, but since we're on our way down we might as well enjoy the ride. . . . And since were only here for a while, might as well show some style. ~ James Taylor

Mike Henderson
04-23-2009, 4:33 PM
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw, within the moonlight in his room,
Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,
An angel writing in a book of gold:—
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the presence in the room he said,
"What writest thou?—The vision raised its head,
And with a look made of all sweet accord,
Answered, 'The names of those who love the Lord.'
'And is mine one?' said Abou. 'Nay, not so,'
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low,
But cheerily still; and said, 'I pray thee, then,
Write me as one that loves his fellow men.'
The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night
It came again with a great wakening light,
And showed the names who love of God had blest,
And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.

James Leigh Hunt
1784-1859

Brent Leonard
04-23-2009, 5:18 PM
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
-- Stephen Roberts (http://wildlink.com/freelink/quote_history.htm)

Jim Mattheiss
04-23-2009, 9:04 PM
Sometimes your the windshield, sometimes your the bug. Mark Knophler (Dire Staits)

You can lead them to water, but holding their head under is frowned upon. (Unk)

Jim

Jerome Hanby
04-23-2009, 10:10 PM
Sometimes your the windshield, sometimes your the bug. Mark Knophler (Dire Staits)


Or the Jim Croce (Hard Time Losin' Man) version:

and sometimes they say that you eat the bear
But sometimes the bear eats you

Jim Rimmer
04-23-2009, 10:32 PM
If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. - Mickey Mantle

Travel the world, see interesting places, meet new people. Then kill them. - unknown Marine recruiter

Where are we going? And why are we in this handbasket?

(plus my signature stuff, of course. :cool:)
Lee - from th elooks of your sig quotes, you must be a Marine.

Mark Hix
04-23-2009, 10:42 PM
my brother told my son after a less than successful game: If you play, you win.

Jared Larrow
04-24-2009, 9:44 AM
"Don't ask for an easy life, ask to be a strong person" (unk)

Norris Randall
04-27-2009, 6:05 PM
30 seconds is a looong time,
if you are sitting on a HOT stove.

edward alexander
04-27-2009, 8:56 PM
To marry success you have to climb in the back seat a time or two with failure-
alex

Bill Clark De
04-27-2009, 9:09 PM
As long as we are marching we ain't fighting USMC

Shannon Kruse
04-27-2009, 9:35 PM
DOG, n. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.... [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


My dog's not spoiled, he just has me will trained.

"Do you know what a chain of command is? It is a chain I go get and beat you with until you know who is in rutten command here."
--Firefly (TV show)

Belinda Barfield
04-28-2009, 11:29 AM
The important things can be said in three words or less. (me)

Brian Effinger
04-28-2009, 11:56 AM
The important things can be said in three words or less. (me)

Hey Belinda, that's 11 words! :p :D

Belinda Barfield
04-28-2009, 12:16 PM
Hey Belinda, that's 11 words! :p :D

Smart aleck! (see, told 'ya):D

Actually I meant the REALLY important things like "Hello", "Please", "Thank you", "I'm sorry" . . .

Scott Donley
04-30-2009, 7:42 PM
"If you're rich, I'm single"

Stephen Tashiro
04-30-2009, 11:37 PM
Nothing practical can be done without considering Philosophy.

Jonathan Spool
05-03-2009, 2:35 AM
If your kids can afford their own therapy when they've grown up, you've done a good job.

John Daugherty
05-03-2009, 9:01 AM
My Grandmother would say "A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush"

If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch!

I had a coach in college that would tell us two things

When in doubt look about!
It's better to cheat than repeat!


I often have this conversation with my 8 year old.

Son, what does practice make?

He says perfect

No son, perfect practice makes perfect

Jason Roehl
05-03-2009, 5:33 PM
I often have this conversation with my 8 year old.

Son, what does practice make?

He says perfect

No son, perfect practice makes perfect

My 8th-grade band teacher used to say that. Some days it would take all period to get through the first line of one song...

Christopher Pine
05-03-2009, 7:06 PM
One of my favorites for the workplace:
When you work with clowns funny things happen!

Nate Carey
05-07-2009, 3:41 PM
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Simplify, simplify.

...all by H D Thoreau

David G Baker
05-07-2009, 4:16 PM
My favorite.

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

Mark Versprille
05-07-2009, 6:26 PM
Knowledge is responsibility.

Dan Mages
05-07-2009, 6:32 PM
Knowledge is responsibility.

Reading is knowledge
Knowledge is power
Power corrupts
Corruption is a crime
Crime never pays
If I read books, I will end up homeless and broke...

Dilbert

I drank what?? - Socrates

Cliff Rohrabacher
05-08-2009, 9:05 AM
If wishes were horses, we'd all shovel S**t.
(mine)

Josh Davis
05-09-2009, 2:37 PM
It is what it is.

Andy Pogue
05-09-2009, 4:14 PM
Has anyone said "Measure twice-cut once" ?

Burt Alcantara
05-09-2009, 7:03 PM
Too much no good, plenty alright.

My father always said this when I got too insistent.

Garth Keel
05-11-2009, 2:07 PM
Hey! Watch this!

Mark Fogleman
05-11-2009, 6:39 PM
"It'll last a lifetime if you die when you're supposed to."
Arval Woody, Master Chairmaker, Spruce Pine, NC

Bill O'Conner
05-14-2009, 9:20 PM
can't fix stupid, Ron White

Walt Nicholson
05-14-2009, 9:47 PM
Live your life so that when you get up each morning and your feet hit the floor, the devil says "Oh crap, he's up!" :D

Richard M. Wolfe
05-14-2009, 11:30 PM
Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication and many accomplishments, owes his existence to six inches of topsoil and the fact that it rains. --Anon.

God is usually on the side of the heavy artillery. --from WWII

Walt Veldink
05-19-2009, 3:47 PM
I'm making a collection of sayings or quotes that illustrate various aspects of life, and might make a good departure point for group discussion.

For example, about worry, from Mark Twain: "Some of the worst things in my life never happened"

Or the old chestnut "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink"

If you have any favorites, please post them here. It you know the source of a quote, please include that too. Thanks.

Dan
My Dad once said...If you find something to buy at an excellent price...
"NEVER STEAL IN SLOW MOTION" In other words, don't go for the last nickel...

Ken Garlock
05-19-2009, 5:41 PM
OK, this may be a repeat, but I like it.:)

Ignorance can be cured with education,
but stupid is to the bone.:eek:

K. L. McReynolds
05-20-2009, 11:26 AM
Problems are really oppotunities in disguise.

Bob Moyer
05-20-2009, 12:48 PM
Happy Wife - Happy Life - Jeff Allen

Jack Nicholson from the Bucket List - Never Pass a bathroom, etc.

Michael Trivette
05-21-2009, 5:57 AM
"Do ... or Do Not ........ There is no try" .
Master Yoda

"Can't nerver could do nothing"
Grandpa

"I'd Rather Have a Gun and not need it, than need a Gun and not have it"
Ted Nudgent

Brad Wood
05-21-2009, 9:33 AM
This first one has been a personal favorite of mine since my teen age years, it was actually my quote in my high school senior year book

"life is the worst teacher. It gives the test before the lesson" (sic)
- Henry David Thoureau

"lack of planning in your behalf does not constitute an emergency on my behalf"
- ?

"Better to be thought a fool than to open you mouth and prove the point" (sic)
- not sure who said this, sounds like Twain though

"to quit smoking is easy... take me for example, I've done it dozens of times" (sic)
- Twain

jim carter
05-22-2009, 10:50 PM
a country boy can survive [ hank williams jr.]

jim carter
05-22-2009, 10:56 PM
i forgot to add another good 1.
AINT NO FUN WAITIN AROUND TO BE A MILLIONAIRE. [ ac/dc]

Casey Gooding
05-22-2009, 11:55 PM
So it goes....Kurt Vonnegut
When I look back on my ordinary life, I see so much magic though I missed it at the time.....Jamie Cullum

Pete Hart
05-23-2009, 9:55 AM
"You can get used to hanging if you hang long enough" From my wife

"There are two kinds of husbands - those that are henpecked, and those that lie about it" From my father

Johnny Pearce
05-24-2009, 2:18 AM
Life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.

Rick Potter
05-24-2009, 5:03 AM
From a co-worker....When you're born, you only have so many moves, don't waste them.

The old pearl....You snooze, you lose.

Finally,..."If you want to make God laugh, tell him YOUR plans".

Rick Potter

Eric Larsen
05-27-2009, 12:21 AM
My favorite swahili proverb:

"He who poops on the road will step on a turd on the way home."


Another variation on the Golden Rule, I suppose. The Golden Rule basically takes care of everything.

Marty Paulus
05-27-2009, 9:48 AM
A couple of my favs:

I can do that better, faster and cheaper. Pick two.

I don't understand it. I've cut this twice and it's still too short!

Those that do not read the newspaper are un-informed. Those that do read it are mis-informed. (Mark Twain)

sean m. titmas
05-27-2009, 7:12 PM
I can do that better, faster and cheaper. Pick two.


thats a good one, iv never heard it like that before.

ours was ,
the 3 factors to a successful job are quality, low price and speed. but you can only pick 2.

Belinda Barfield
05-29-2009, 2:05 PM
A new one


“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass………
It’s about learning how to dance in the rain”
….Author Unknown

John Loftis
06-01-2009, 2:57 PM
My most prized possession from my grandfather is a book of phrases/quotations that co-workers attributed to him, compiled and presented to him upon his retirement in 1982. He lived most of his life in rural Texas, and some of these phrases are probably familiar (particularly to southerners).

These aren't necessarily profound, but they make me smile. Maybe because it captures a piece of who my grandad was.

Here are a few of them:

Shoot, Luke, or give up the gun!
I’d like to make a dime on their mistakes.
It ain’t braggin’, if you done it.
More than remote; less than likely.
He plowed up one snake he couldn’t handle.
Full as a nine-pound robin.
Where do you start measuring the cat’s tail?
Talking with his finger.
Looking out the window while he’s talking to you.
There’s some that’ll bark back at you.
If someone is smiling when everything is going wrong, chances are he found someone to blame it on.
That should be said with a pencil.
I’m catching ‘em faster than I can string ‘em.
As worthless as teats on a boar hog.
Take both hands off the wheel and let ‘er straighten herself up.
Don’t give him anything he can hit, but don’t walk him.
That old boy’s trying to trade a jaybird for a turkey.
Keep on farming what you’re farming
I’m as independent as a hog on ice.

John

Belinda Barfield
06-01-2009, 3:03 PM
Thanks for sharing these John, and what a great tribute. Many of them are familiar to me, and as I read them I could hear my granddaddy saying several of them.

Jeff Dege
06-01-2009, 3:41 PM
These aren't necessarily profound, but they make me smile. Maybe because it captures a piece of who my grandad was.

From Lindy Cooper Wisdom (Jeff Cooper's daughter):


There jist ain't many folk who live a peaceful, carefree life.
Along with all the good times there'll be lotsa grief and strife.
But ain't many troubles that a man cain't fix
With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six. -

Randy Rose
06-01-2009, 7:35 PM
If has tires on it, sooner or later it will give you trouble.

Dennis Thornton
06-02-2009, 10:50 AM
Not sure if this hasn't already been posted. When I heard it the author was identified as Henry Ford (don't know if it's true). Regardless,

"If you think you can or you think you can't, you're probably right."

Whenever I think of a new project and start to get a bit unsure of myself I remember this. After that I know I can do it!

Jim Rimmer
06-02-2009, 11:13 PM
Texas Wisdom:

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Always drink upstream of the herd.
:D

Dave Garcia
06-14-2009, 2:35 PM
Hawaiian rules:

"The best things in life are not things!"

"To be rich, make more or desire less!"

"No rain, no rainbows!"

Dave Garcia
06-14-2009, 2:37 PM
From, arguably, the best catcher in baseball...... unless you're a Red Sox fan.

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"

Stephen Musial
06-17-2009, 11:57 AM
Missouri Wisdom:

Things could be worse - we could be from Arkansas.

Mike Cruz
06-24-2009, 9:54 PM
Sorry if these are a repeats, I didn't have the time to look through ALL the sayings...

Don't worry about the things in life you can't control...you can't control them. And don't worry about the things in life that you have control over...you can control them.

You need that (WHATEVER I wanted at the time) like you need a hole in the head! (My Pop)

Dennis Thornton
06-25-2009, 11:36 AM
Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!

Stephen Tashiro
06-25-2009, 2:48 PM
Some people, when alone, are in good company and others are not.

Marty Gulseth
06-30-2009, 10:50 AM
Never attribute to malice that which may adequately explained by stupidity - anon

Stephen Musial
06-30-2009, 10:57 AM
It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear.

"How's life treating you, Norm?"

Like it caught me sleeping with its wife
Like a baby treats a diaper


Norm Peterson - Cheers

Leigh Costello
07-01-2009, 2:32 AM
From my Mom: Because I said so.

From my Dad: If you can't finish it, don't start it.

From my Grandpa: You gotta maka da money before you spend it.

From my daughter: I can't wait until I am older because then I can have the remote. (She is 19 and still says this.)

From life: Be careful what you wish for.
If it went up, it will come down, don't stand under it and wait.
Nothing tastes like chicken except chicken.
If it hurts, don't do it.

Mike Cruz
07-01-2009, 7:19 AM
I can' believe I forgot this one:

After yelling out "OW, I can't believe I did that again!", the reply coming from the other room:

"It must not have hurt enough the first time." From my old boss, a Master Craftsman.

Myk Rian
07-02-2009, 10:15 PM
My favorite saying is my signature.

Ken Fitzgerald
07-02-2009, 10:20 PM
One that I'm beginning to appreciate more each day

Getting old ain't for sissies! ....attributed to Tyler Howell's Mom</p>

Ben Hatcher
07-06-2009, 1:45 PM
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

That’s good enough.

No matter how much you rub, you can’t put a shine on a turd.

David G Baker
07-06-2009, 5:53 PM
Ben,
Guess you missed the Mythbusters episode where they actually did get a pretty good shine by rubbing and rubbing and rubbing. :D

Gene Howe
07-06-2009, 6:37 PM
Ben,
Guess you missed the Mythbusters episode where they actually did get a pretty good shine by rubbing and rubbing and rubbing. :D

Yep, I missed that one, too. I think I'm glad I did.:D

Andy Bardowell
07-06-2009, 11:43 PM
I’m really detail oriented, my dad isn’t, every time we’re working on a project and I’m fiddling with something trying to get it perfect he’d say…

Let’s get on with it; a man on a galloping horse won’t see it!

Tim Wagner
07-07-2009, 1:11 AM
life is like a bowl of cherries, until you get married.

Dennis Thornton
07-07-2009, 10:48 AM
Ben,
Guess you missed the Mythbusters episode where they actually did get a pretty good shine by rubbing and rubbing and rubbing. :D

Isn't that a myth? ;)

James Harrison
07-07-2009, 11:12 AM
We have met the enemy and he is us.

Michael Schapansky
07-07-2009, 9:55 PM
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" Murphy's Law

I live my life by that one...

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" Emerson

Vinny Miseo
07-07-2009, 10:44 PM
I think I read this quote in someone's sig. here, and I really enjoyed it.

"You can do the work of the mind without the hand, but not that of the hand without the mind."

Jesse Espe
07-07-2009, 11:33 PM
From a crusty old school Navy Senior Chief to his ornery son:

"Son, if your gonna be stupid, you gotta be tough."
"Boy, you ever hear of the 7 P's?"

Another favorite:

If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute.

Ben Hatcher
07-08-2009, 2:31 PM
I’m really detail oriented, my dad isn’t, every time we’re working on a project and I’m fiddling with something trying to get it perfect he’d say…

Let’s get on with it; a man on a galloping horse won’t see it!

My dad and I are the exact opposite. He never gets anything done because he's always looking for the right tool or the proper technique. My grandfather is on the other extreme. He'll make due with whatever even if the end results looks like a turd that no amount of "special attention" from the Mythbusters could ever overcome.

I think that the hardest lesson I've learned in woodworking is when taking the extra time to "do it right" is going to keep you from ruining your project and when it is just wasting time making good enough better.

Bill Clark De
07-10-2009, 5:54 AM
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.
Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?

27.. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative --

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up..

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

Michael Stafford
07-10-2009, 6:47 AM
No amount of prosperity is sufficient to eliminate all misfortune; and sloth is impervious to opportunity. Odd Thomas

Brent Smith
07-10-2009, 9:56 AM
'It ain't worth doing, unless it's worth doing to excess"

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.....Baffle them with b*llsh*t"

Kevin French
07-23-2009, 2:51 AM
I too/also collect say'ns, among other things

Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get stuck into jet engines.

Prespective: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your
defeats, 99.999...% of the world’s population couldn’t care less.

Don’t sweat the petty things, and don’t pet the sweatty things.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort.

Leadership by Denial is not a guide on a river in Eygpt.

You’re just jealous because the voices are talking to me.

Nothing is fool-proof because fools are so ingenious.

Vy izzare zo many horzesasses zan zere iz horzes?

Some days it doesn’t pay to chew through the straps

Always remember you’re unique. Just like everyone else.

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a bad
example for the rest of us.

If you lend someone $20 dollars and you never see them again, it was
probably worth it.

Don’t squat with your spurs on.

Don’t worry it only seems kinky the first time.

Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from
bad judgement.

Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.

Generally specking, you aren’t learning much when your mouth is moving.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Remember Desserts spelled backwards is STRESSED.

And one of my own design

“Two roads diverged in a Yellow Wood, and...”
having nailed another checkpoint,
I reset the bezel ring on my compass for the next azimuth,
with a slight offset to the left.
I took a bearing, crossed the road and re-entered the woods.
“... and THAT has made all the difference”.

1955-1975: 35 Elvis Movies. 1975-Present: -Nothing.

Where Do You Find a Dog With No Legs? Right Where You Left Him.

Why Do Gorillas Have Big Nostrils? Because They Have Big Fingers.

Kevin French
07-23-2009, 3:07 AM
Mike

I heard it this way

We the willing, lead by the unknown, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much with so little for so long, we are capable of doing anything with nothing.

Matt Schuman
07-24-2009, 1:14 PM
There is no political solution, to our troubled evolution - The Police

Tom Woolley
07-24-2009, 1:19 PM
"...Be Safe, be Ethical and Make Money..." My dad, C.A. Woolley..words to me on first day of work after college graduaton.

Tom

doug faist
07-26-2009, 9:54 PM
One of my favorites from our high school graduation address:


"Take your passion and make it happen."


-Irene Cara

Tim Boger
07-27-2009, 7:17 AM
The answers "NO" until you ask ....

Tim

Matt Schuman
08-04-2009, 11:27 AM
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it." Henry Ford

Jon Lanier
08-05-2009, 4:59 AM
(a few things I find my self repeating to my boys)

"There's no substitute for skill." -Jon Lanier (me)

"If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time." -unknown

"Walk with purpose." -Jon Lanier (me)

Mark Chestnut
08-05-2009, 11:54 AM
"The optimist hopes there is life after death.
The pessimist is sure of it."
Unknown

Jeff Dege
08-07-2009, 2:08 PM
An optimist believes this is the best of all possible worlds.

A pessimist is afraid that he's right.

Chris Walls
08-07-2009, 9:41 PM
My personal favorite.

" Symmetry is overrated "


Chris

Richard Niemiec
08-14-2009, 11:53 AM
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

Mahatma Gandi

Rick Williams
09-06-2009, 10:53 PM
Better to be thought a fool then to open one's mouth and leave no doubt.

John Pratt
09-09-2009, 6:35 PM
"Be polite,be professional, and have a plan to kill everyone you meet" - unknown author


This is a small variation of what we told soldiers before we went out on patrol in Iraq and Afghanistan. I love it and so true.

"There never seems to be enough time to do something right, but there is always enough time to do it over again." - My Grandfather (when explaining the importance of doing stuff right the first time.)

Matt Newton
09-09-2009, 8:05 PM
Don't let life get in the way of your education. (Mark Twain)

You can't always get what you want. But if you try, sometimes, you'll get what you need. (Mick Jagger)

mickey cassiba
09-25-2009, 11:40 AM
Although I may dis-agree with your opinion, I will ardently fight for your right to express it. (my own)
Mickey

Brad Copeland
09-26-2009, 11:26 AM
There's no such thing as a free lunch.

mickey cassiba
10-02-2009, 7:34 PM
Another that I like,
When life gives you lemons, find someone who got Tequila! (?)

Ed Kilburn
10-03-2009, 11:43 AM
I refuse to hold a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Bob Genovesi
10-04-2009, 7:50 AM
It's not mine but it does make a lot of sense.

"Never argue with a stupid person, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

Mike Pousson
10-04-2009, 8:13 AM
When someone is selling something at, to me, a higher price than its real value, my expression is

"They are really proud of that thing"

My second best expression, being raised in the south, is when things are going really good for someone, I tend to say..

"You're in high cotton now"

Brian J. Williams
10-06-2009, 11:27 PM
a corollary on a Mark Twain:

"Don't let college get in the way of your education", by my late father some 32 years ago upon my initial departure for "higher education".

Brian

Kent A Bathurst
10-07-2009, 12:13 PM
"When all else fails, read the instructions."
- My Dad

"No matter where you go, there you are."
- From the film "Buckaroo Bonzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers Across the 8th Dimension" which is also my favorite film title.

Don C Peterson
10-07-2009, 5:09 PM
"No other success can compensate for failure in the home" -- David O. McKay

"An uncritical open mind is little more than a trash can." --Me

"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom." --Friedrich August von Hayek

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it." --H. L. Mencken

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." --Milton Friedman

Ross Johnson
10-12-2009, 11:58 AM
its nice to be important but more important to be nice

if you dont do anything you cant do anything wrong

Jeff Dege
10-12-2009, 12:13 PM
The ninety-ninety rule:

It takes 90% of the available time to get the first half of the job done, and the other 90% of the available time to get the second half of the job done.

Dennis McGarry
10-12-2009, 1:11 PM
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some - Robert Fulghum taken from "all I really need to know I learned in kindergarten"

If you havent read this book i urge you to do so....

Kenneth Moar
10-14-2009, 3:07 AM
To live is to fly , both low and high......Townes Van Zant

Some people are like slinkies, not very useful, but fun to through down stairs.

I don't like to tresspass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line...
B Dylan

mickey cassiba
10-14-2009, 10:11 AM
When you're up to your eyes in alligators, it's hard to remember that you were sent to drain the swamp!:D
Author unknown
Mickey

Eric Gustafson
10-14-2009, 4:01 PM
This one was my mother's:

Mind your manners, you will need them if you have to appear before the queen.

Mom was English.

Steven Lavergne
10-14-2009, 5:06 PM
Be careful... The toes you step on today may be connected to the butt you have to kiss tomorrow!

Tom Avery
11-13-2009, 3:27 PM
... The early bird may get the worm.... but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Eric Larsen
11-19-2009, 9:40 PM
"It's easier to actually care than it is to pretend to care." -- A salesman I once worked with.

"Be cool. But care." -- Dr. Buckaroo Banzai (a fictional sci-fi character).

"The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard." -- Katha Upanishads, translated by Somerset Maughm, in "The Razor's Edge." (My favorite book.)

"I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…" --Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in his book, "The Art of Happiness." (My next favorite book.)

Craig Kershaw
11-21-2009, 12:09 AM
you can't polish a turd

Eric Larsen
11-21-2009, 1:29 AM
you can't polish a turd

You can. They did it on Mythbusters.

Harlan Coverdale
11-21-2009, 2:57 AM
Being vague is as annoying as that other thing. [Author Unknown]

wells conklin
11-22-2009, 6:33 PM
THE THREE MOST COMMON MISTAKES OF LEADERS: OVER-PROMISING AND UNDER-PERFORMING.


"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it is yours. If not, hunt it down and kill it!"

Pete Schupska
11-22-2009, 7:18 PM
1. End every drive in a kick.
2. Play after every storm.
3. It's not that it takes all kinds, just that we have them.
4. Same dog, different pile.

Dino Makropoulos
11-22-2009, 8:11 PM
ancient philosophy.
stupidity grows on numbers.


today's reality.
nothing is wrong with our youth IF nothing is wrong with us.


Great thought.
Your greatness is your refusal to end.

Kent Parker
11-25-2009, 8:54 PM
* In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire”
R.W. Emerson

* Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard

* In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

* You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
Frank Zappa

Tom Winship
11-25-2009, 9:05 PM
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.. Unk.

terry richards
11-25-2009, 9:44 PM
On being miffed.....

"Ya' got two choices. Get over it or die with it."

On being challenged.....

"Do not curse your burdens. Shoulder your burdens and rejoice in your strength." Thus spake Zarathustra

Thomas Canfield
11-25-2009, 9:46 PM
"This to shall pass." It applies to both the good and bad and good situations - and I wish there were more of the good ones.

Jason Roehl
11-26-2009, 9:38 AM
On an unpalatable situation:

"Accept it before it destroys you."

Cary Falk
11-26-2009, 11:09 AM
There is no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people.

Light travels faster than sound. Sometimes a person appears to intelligent until you hear them speak.

It only hurts till the pain goes away

A pat on the back is a short distance from a kick in the a$$.

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

A lock just keeps honest people honest

He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.

It's always in the last place you look.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary

keith ouellette
11-26-2009, 8:06 PM
If your in mexico have beer not water.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth unless you want to get bit.

If frogs had wings we wouldn't be talking about this because we'd be on another planet.

All you need to succeed in life is hard work, little sleep and more hard work or a rich parent.

Bill Cunningham
11-26-2009, 11:13 PM
Life, is anything that dies when you stomp on it!

Life is what happens when you've made other plans.

keith ouellette
11-27-2009, 9:17 AM
Money may not be everything but I can't think of any problem I could have where I wouldn't be better off with a bunch of it.

Randy Rizzo
11-27-2009, 10:28 AM
Only saw one post that quoted the greatest philosopher of our time...Calvin Here's a couple more;

Reality continues to ruin my life; and one that's apt for this site;

I have a hammer! I can put things together! I can knock things apart! I can alter my environment at will and make an incredible din all the while! Ah, it's great to be male! :rolleyes:

wells conklin
11-29-2009, 12:30 AM
You can lead a horse to water, but if you can make him float on his back then you've really got somethin'.

Life is like a deck chair. You can see where you've been but not where you're goin'.

Dave Beauchesne
11-29-2009, 9:36 AM
My father was a barber for over 30 years and he heard it all ( well mostly all ) -

His saying was '' There is nothing worse than people ''

Dave Beauchesne

Eric Roberge
11-29-2009, 10:15 PM
I loved this when I heard it...

Argue with an a**hole and you become an a**hole.

-My ex-wife's, ex-boyfriend

Bob DeViney
11-30-2009, 10:36 PM
"Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship." Zeuxis (Greece, 5th cent. BC)



"Of those who say nothing, few are silent." Thomas Neill


" It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle


“If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” Anatole France

" Well done is better than well said." Ben Franklin


"Good intentions are useless in the absence of common sense." Jami (15th Cen. Persian poet)


"Profiting by the experience of others is the beginning of wisdom." British Gen. Oliver F.G. Hogg


"It is a luxury to be understood." "Common sense is as rare as genius." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you always do what interests you, then at least one person is pleased." Katherine Hepburn


"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." Bill Cosby

Jim Rimmer
12-01-2009, 3:04 PM
I had this on my office wall for 14 years:

When the going gets tough, the weak start to complain.

And another favorite: If you can't spot the sucker at the table in the first half hour, it's you. Anthony Hollden - Professional Poker Player

Belinda Barfield
12-02-2009, 12:58 PM
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. --Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180)

Sean Hughes
12-13-2009, 9:09 PM
Work to live, don't live to work. Take time to enjoy yourself.

rick fulton
12-13-2009, 11:15 PM
The most dangerous words:
Hey! Watch this!

More dangerous words:
"Hold my beer while I show you how it's done."

Mike Minto
12-18-2009, 1:13 PM
The path of righteousness leads but to the grave.

Always keeps me smiling.

Mike Minto
12-18-2009, 3:56 PM
Never fight with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
unknow
Mike


I like that; it goes well with:

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Jim Solomon
01-01-2010, 12:36 AM
Grandfather to a very young me that thought he had a better way.

Well, that is like sitting on a sawhorse, slinging horse manure in your face and think your going for a sleigh ride.

Tell God your plans to give Him a good laugh!

Some of the worst things to happen where done with the best intention.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener

After the game...Both the King and the Pawn go back into the same box.

The trouble with being the best man at a wedding is that you never get to actually prove it.

Etc.,etc.,etc.

Charlie Barnes
01-01-2010, 9:53 AM
"An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind." -John Mellencamp

Ira Matheny
01-01-2010, 1:19 PM
'Speak softly and carry a big stick'

Possibly from Teddy Rosevelt

John alder
01-09-2010, 9:02 PM
Happiness is my lawn mower starting on the first pull. Unknown maybe me

Dave Johnson29
01-10-2010, 11:50 AM
Happiness is my lawn mower starting on the first pull. Unknown maybe me

Happiness is can of spray-start to make the lawn mower start on first pull.

David Helm
01-14-2010, 11:56 AM
Time is fun when you're having flies . . . the spider

And in the end, the love you get is equal to the love you give . . . John Lennon

Honor your work . . . me

alex grams
01-14-2010, 12:06 PM
If you can't laugh at yourself, you can't laugh at anything.

Glen hit one of my favorites on post #2:

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon

Belinda Barfield
01-21-2010, 8:28 AM
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. (A sign I drove by yesterday)

On the other hand, you have different fingers. (unk.)

Support bacteria. They are the only culture some people have. (unk)

Jim Rimmer
01-21-2010, 2:25 PM
Time is fun when you're having flies . . . the spider
I thought that was from Kermit the Frog.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

Michael Takewell
02-03-2010, 5:43 PM
I have always lived by the motto "If you don't work, you don't eat!" That is the first sentence all 3 of my kids learned!

Brian Hale
02-06-2010, 3:19 PM
There's only 2 ways to perform any task, the right way and every other way

Bruce (Jack) Campbell
02-16-2010, 12:00 PM
We only ever watch 1 TV channel, the one the VCR was set on when our last kid left home. me!

Never play leapfrog with a Unicorn! uk

If you want something that's good, for nothing, that's usually what you get. Something that's good for nothing! my dad.

If you want to be an a$$hole just remember, an a$$hole gets kicked almost as much as a soccer ball! me

I started life with nothing. I still have most of it left. uk

The difference between being involved and being committed is like bacon and eggs. The chicken is involved, the pig is committed! uk

Being kinky is using the feathers, being deviate is using the whole chicken uk

Edward Henderson
02-22-2010, 2:27 PM
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose!
May and elephant caress you with his toe!

Both of the above are from an unknown song I heard on the radio in the 50's.

Both are nice to use instead of "you'rs truly" when writing to your local politicians.

"It's in the book!" When your neighbor asks you why you used dovetail joints instead of a butt joint.