Favorite sayings about life? Please contribute.

[Phyllis Meyer]

"Where There's A Will...There's A Way"!

Phyllis

[Jim O'Dell]

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]

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]

"If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy" - unknown

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

[Phyllis Meyer]

"The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public"

Phyllis

[Eric DeSilva]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

My CAD (Computer Aided Design) teacher loves to tell us:

5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions.

[Chuck Wintle]

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]

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]

If frogs carried machine guns, there would be no snakes.

[bill kiss]

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

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

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