Great Quotes

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I've always liked topics like this, so I figured I'd start one here. Share your favorites or just something you come across. Here's one I really like.
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great." - Mark Twain

 

[uberam3rica]

"Golf is a waste of a good walk"- Mark Twain

"When words fail, music speaks"- Hans Christian Andersen

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I have to agree with the golf quote lol

 

[tbradsim1]

We have met the Enemy and they is us. Pogo. The old cajun

 

[freakiefrog]

"Men and Steel are a lot alike they are both strong, able to withstand eminence pressure and force. Both become worthless when they lose their temper"
I had this printed on a sign at my wedding.

"my wife and I are like a Compass, she is the point around which my world revolves" - Walt Whitman

 

[pstlpkr]

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." Falsely accredited to Mark Twain

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[Perique]

I have been texting out a quote of the day to a select group of friends for a while now - this Jan marks my fourth year running. So many great quotes, don't know where to begin!

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

Just pick one at random sothron or one that speaks to you

 

[profpar]

Old Cajon, that quote from Pogo is a favorite of mine. Pogo is my all time favorite comic book series.

 

[freakiefrog]

I keep this in my wallet it's from a fortune cookie but I love it. "A mans character can be seen no more truly than in what he finds laughable."

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

If you are going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill
Freakyfrog... fortune cookies rule.

 

[tbradsim1]

Prof Pogo was my favorite too. The old cajun

 

[brian64]

"No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session." -- Attributed to either Mark Twain or Judge Gideon J. Tucker

 

[ohin3]

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu

 

[wildcat]

Some of my favorites from the late great Zig Ziglar:
* “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
* “You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.”
* “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
* “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
* “A goal properly set is halfway reached.”
* “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
* “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.”

 

[mattmars]

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it.
Don't know who to attribute that to.

 

[captainprophesy]

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

― John Wayne

 

[puffy]

I don't know where this comes from,but I like it...If you continue to learn more and more about less and less you could eventually know everything about nothing.

 

[lraisch]

Good to know I'm not the only Pogo fan here.
"Our grandest plans have fallen through

Our airiest castles tumbled over

Because of lines we neatly drew

And later neatly stumbled over"
Piet Hein