Words of Wisdom

[Jooste]

You Have No Enemies - Charles Mackay
You have no enemies, you say?
Alas! My friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done.
You've hit no traitor on the hip,
You've dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You've never turned the wrong to right,
You've been a coward in the fight.

 

[Jooste]

What We Think, We Become - Margaret Thatcher
Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions.
Watch your actions, for they'll become habits.
Watch your habits for they will become your character.
And watch your character, for it will become your destiny.
What we think, we become.

 

[stokesdale]

And she said, with a tear in her eye
Watch out where the huskies go,
And don't you eat that yellow snow

Frank Zappa

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

He who lives in a glass house gets dressed in the basement

 

[highwaycobbery]

Never trust a man who smokes a pipe.
Charles Bukowski.

 

[philairfoil]

Don't trust a person in a mask.

 

[gamzultovah]

Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in bliss so that nothing but bubbles would dance on the surface of his bliss, as on a sea…and even then every man, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer libel, would play you some loathsome trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive rationality his fatal fantastic element…
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

[ashdigger]

 

[Ahi Ka]

In the words of Francis of Assisi as he met Brother Dominic on the road to Umbria, “hi”

 

[stokesdale]

In the words of Francis of Assisi as he met Brother Dominic on the road to Umbria, “hi”

Full of useful information, yet pithy as well.

 

[prairiedruid]

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952.

 

[beefeater33]

 

[jpmcwjr]

Did some one mention St. Francis?

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”

― Francis of Assisi

 

[mso489]

From Colonel Greer, who probably did not originate it, a former colleague of mine at what used to be the Veterans Administration:

"A new broom sweeps cleanest, but an old broom knows where the dirt is."

 

[warren]

If you are not the lead dog, the view never changes.

 

[hawky454]

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? - Lincoln.

 

[gamzultovah]

Did some one mention St. Francis?

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”

― Francis of Assisi

My wife read this today at our company luncheon.

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

What is good in life?

To crush your enemies
To see them driven before you
And to hear the lamentations of their women

-Conan the Barbarian

 

[wyfbane]

Dreams don't work unless you do.

~John C. Maxwell

 

[highwaycobbery]

Pluck a bee from a flower and learn the limitations of patience.
Robert Greene, 48 Laws of Power