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Quote of the Day

December 1998 Past Mailings to our Free Mailing List

 

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

        - Eleanor Roosevelt

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

        - Woody Allen

“Seeing is deceiving. It’s eating that’s believing.”

        - James Thurber

“Slumps are like a soft bed. They’re easy to get into and hard to get out of.”

        - Johnny Bench

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

        - John Wooden

“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.”

        - Bob Talbert

“While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.”

        - John L. Mason

“If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.”

        - Tom Peters

“The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.”

        - Lucille S. Harper

“The average tourist wants to go places where there are no tourists.”

        - Sam Ewing

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody – it saves so much time.”

        - Rudyard Kipling

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.  The hard part is doing it.”

        - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

        - Vince Lombardi

"Have you ever noticed.... Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"

        - George Carlin

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.   I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

        - Mother Teresa

"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage.  They've experienced pain and bought jewelry."

        - Rita Rudner

"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain."

        - Carol Leifer

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."

        - G.K. Chesterton

"I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people."

        - Ed Bluestone

"What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?"

        - Irv Kupcinet

"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities, always see them for they are always there."

        - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."

        - Wilson Mizner

"How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever."

        - David Norris

"Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools speak because they have to say something."

        - Unknown

"This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can."

        - George Bernard Shaw

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."

        - Groucho Marx

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

        - Thomas A. Edison

"Yes, the president should resign. He has lied to the American people, time and time again, and betrayed their trust. He is no longer an effective leader. Since he has admitted guilt, there is no reason to put the American people through an impeachment. He will serve absolutely no purpose in finishing out his term; the only possible solution is for the president to save some dignity and resign."

        - Bill Clinton, 1974, regarding Richard Nixon

"We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived."

        - Paul Bourget

"Moonlight is sculpture."

        - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Children are God's punishment for having sex. And Grandchildren are God's reward for putting up with them."

        - Ronald Appel


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