Thread: Quotes #3 ~ Words From the Wise

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior - Henry C Link

By the way, I say God bless you when someone sneezes. I never say bless you. Do you want to know why? Because I'm not the Lord! I can't do that. I'm just a messenger for the big guns up stairs. And I never say gesundheit, who even says that? GESUNDHEIT! I felt like I'm honoring Hitler or something, Like I'll end up on the History Channel because someone sneezed.
Dane Cook :lol:

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-Groucho Marx

"...if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." - John Steinbeck

Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.
- David O. McKay

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
- Albert Schweitzer

^ That is very true, Kris. :nod:

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. - Lord Byron

I love finding encouraging quotes. I especially love the quotes from the little books by H. Jackson Browne, Jr. They are so sensible--here's a sample (#5 is especially true):

1. Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day.

2. Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.

3. Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.

4. Overtip breakfast waitresses.

5. Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

6. Never resist a generous impulse.

7. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

8. Never go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink.

9. Leave everything a little better than you found it.

10. Call your mother.

Life brings hope and pain; but revenge never brings redemption. ~ Connor MacLeod