Here is a small collection of good quotes that I have found. If any of them need explaining in your opinion, please email the quote to me at philip1192@bellsouth.net and I'll be happy to post it. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.
No man was ever beaten by being knocked down. A man is beaten because he doesn't get up.
I'm not completely worthless. I can always serve as a bad example.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. - Charles F. Kettering
Dons Axiom: when all else fails, read the instructions.
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
- E. W. Howe
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
- Arnold Bennett
There is no sense arguing with people so stupid they don't know you have the better of them.
Things will get worse before they get better.
Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.
- Ludwig Boerne
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
- Dale Carnegie
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
- Daniel Greenberg
Decide promptly, but never give your reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
- Lord Mansfield
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
- Josiah Quincy
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
- Henny Youngman
One of the most difficult things in the world is to know how to do something correctly, and to watch without comment, somebody else do it incorrectly.
A lot of people spend half their time wishing for things they could have if they didn't spend half their time wishing.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
- Edgar W. Howe
A man is not old till regrets take the place of dreams.
- John Barrymore
Exhilaration is that feeling you get after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
Three words sum up what you can count on in life. It goes on.
One of the most useful things you can learn is to yawn with your mouth closed, or in such a way that people think you are smiling at them.
To be a success socially, you must learn to look interested when you are bored.
Why did the Lord give us so much quickness of movement unless it was to avoid responsibility?
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
When it rains, it pours.
Jones Motto: Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
All work is unpleasant, If it were pleasant -Then it wouldn't be work.
If you're feeling good, don't worry, you'll get over it.
My mind is made up - don't confuse me with the facts.
God gives us relatives; thank God we can chose our friends.
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
- 'Smile' Lingers
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
- Bill Vaughan
I know it all. I just can't remember it all at once.
Most people prove it's not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
- Edna Chase
An embarrassing moment is spitting out a car window that is not open.
Nothing makes life look brighter than a stroke of good luck immediately following a stroke of bad luck.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
- Joyce Brothers
One of the great labor saving devices of today is tomorrow.
War does not determine who is right, only who is left.
People who don't know whether they are coming or going are usually in the biggest hurry to get there.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
- Miguel de Cervantes
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time--a tremendous whack.
- Winston Churchill
If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard
Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases.
John W. Raper
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
