Favorite Sayings or Quotes?

Aquajock

Aquajock

Cathlete
Here are my personal faves:

"The skill of the master is lost in the pupil's lack of it." (A Man For All Seasons)

"Fortune smiles on the prepared mind." (Chinese proverb)

"Pain is weakness leaving the body." (Navy SEALS)

"That which is obtained too cheaply is esteemed too lightly." (Thomas Paine)

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." (Colin Powell)

"Never wrestle with a pig. The pig will have fun, and you'll just get dirty." (George Bernard Shaw)

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." (Abraham Lincoln)

"Be grateful to Allah for our hardships." (Islamic prayer)

"No good deed goes unpunished." (unknown)

"Work would be great if I didn't have all this stuff to do." (Annette Q. Aquajock)

Contributions, please?

A-jock
 
"I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How it got in my pajamas I'll never know." (Groucho Marx)

"There is nothing as ignorant as an educated man once you get him off the subject he was educated on." (Will Rogers)

"Before I speak, I have something important to say." (Groucho Marx)

"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." (Woody Allen)

"The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books-how not to eat what you've just learned to cook." (Andy Rooney)

"Insanity is hereditary-you get it from your children." (Sam Levenson)

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18." (Mark Twain)

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. By the time I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in 7 years." (Mark Twain)


I guess I go for the funny guys.
 
"We are life that wants to live in the midst of other life that wants to live." Albert Einstein

HB - I just love Groucho!

Lorrie
 
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"As we travel the road of life, two rules which will not bend--never whittle towards yourself, nor pee into the wind."

"If people see you as an a$$hole, they'll think your only products are sh*t and hot air."

Both bits of wisdom were passed on to me by my dad. The first isn't his original work, but the second sure is! }>
 
"You have within you more resources of energy than have ever been tapped, more talent than has ever been exploited, more strength than has ever been tested, and more to give than you have ever given". John Gardner

"If you get the choice to sit it our or dance, I hope you dance." (DebbieH who sings that song?)
 
Lee Ann Womack!

LEE ANN WOMACK LYRICS

"I Hope You Dance"

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder,
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger,
May you never take one single breath for granted,
GOD forbid love ever leave you empty handed,
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance....I hope you dance.

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance,
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin',
Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin',
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter,
When you come close to sellin' out reconsider,
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along,
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone.)

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean,
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens,
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance,
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

Dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance.
I hope you dance....I hope you dance..
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder where those years have gone)


Your-Friend-In-Fitness, DebbieH http://www.plaudersmilies.de/wavey.gif If You Get The Choice To Sit It Out Or Dance...I Hope You DANCE!!!
 
I'm a preschool teacher--

"We inevitably doom our children to failure if we set their goals for them."

"Children have far more need of models than of critics."

"It's fun being a kid." (Sorry, the author's names escape me!)

And I'm a Cathe fan--

"Just a suggestion--take it or leave it, right?"

Wendy
 
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Chinese Proverb

People are often unreasonable, illogical or self-centered./Forgive them anyway./If you are kind, people may accuse you of/Selfish, ulterior motives./Be kind anyway. (Kent Keith ) This was inscribed on the wall of Mother Teresa's orphanage in Calcutta.

If you're talkin', you ain't listenin'. (Mark Twain)

Of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these what might have been. (?)

Bobbi http://www.plaudersmilies.de/chicken.gif Chick's Rule!
 
"Do. Or do not. There is no try." (Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back)

"I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." (Mark Twain)
 
1. Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

2. It could probably be shown by facts & figures that there is
no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

3. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

4. Always do right. This will gratify some people & astonish
the rest.

5. Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any
man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

6. Familiarity breeds contempt...and children.

Mark Twain
 
If you can keep your wits about you while all around you men are losing their's...you're not paying attention.
Unknown
:)
 
[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Aug-25-02 AT 05:40AM (Est)[/font][p]Love Mark Twain! What a guy, still wowing us 92 years after his passing!

Here's another one by an ageless sage:

"I don't belong to any organized political party - I'm a Democrat." (Will Rogers)
 
I love Yoda's quote.

"Failure is not in falling down. It's when you stop getting back up." (??)


"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
 
How about


What doesn't kill you makes you stronger...(??)

Where do the stairs go? the stairs go up.... (Ghostbusters)

Love never fails (1 Cor 13:4-8)

If you love someone set them free.. If they don't come back hunt them done and kill them (hmm scary)

All I could think of.

Babs :-jumpy
 
Oh, Honeybunch...my mom actually watched Groucho on TV when it was all live...she told me about a game show he hosted...a lady won a prize and it was in his front pocket. She had to reach in his pocket for the prize...she said, "Oh, my, I feel crazy!" He said, "Go a little further and you'll feel nuts."

Some of my favorite sayings...

"This too shall pass." Goethe

"You only live once--but if you work it right, once is enough." Joe E. Lewis

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." Samuel Johnson

"Be glad. Be good. Be brave." Eleanor Hodgman Porter

Jim Huebner's 6 Rules of Mountaineering (apply to life in general)
1. Climb with passion.
2. No guts, no glory.
3. Expect dead ends.
4. Never turn your back on your partner.
5. Never look where you don't want to go.
6. There's always room on the rope for a person with honor.

Amy
 
Cute Post..................!!

My Favorites.......

"You have to accept in life that sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue." (Anonymous)

"Just Do It" (NIKE)

"It's never too late to become who you might have been" (George Eliot)

"No one ever drowned in their own sweat" (Ann Landers)

"A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for" (Unknown)


MY PERSONAL FAVORITES AND LIFE MANTRA'S.......

"Never once, after a workout did I say "I shouldn't have done that" (Madonna)

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over.....it became a butterfly." (Anonymous - was listed in the back of an old FITNESS magazine)
 
I, too, remember Groucho when he was on live, and watched the re-runs, too. Harpo was my favorite, besides Groucho. There are Harpo recordings out there, believe it or not. I'd love to hear them.
 
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