Gagler's Quote of the Day

March 1999 Past Mailings to our Free Mailing List

 

 

"An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer."

        - Evelle J. Younger

"We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known."

        - F. Sagan

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

        - Leo Tolstoy

"Everybody loves an accent. If you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent."

        - Marilyn vos Savant

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

        - Ronald Reagan

"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level."

        - Max L. Forman

"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh."

        - Conan O'Brien

"It is better to be faithful than famous."

        - Theodore Roosevelt

"A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market."

        - Austin O'Malley

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."

        - Voltaire

"The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses."

        - Jean Galbert de Campistron

"When wealth is list, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."

        - German Motto

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

        - Benjamin Franklin

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.   Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore. Dream. Discover."

        - Mark Twain

"If I could be anything.. I would be your tear..to be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks and die on your lips."

        - Jen

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page."

        - St. Augustine

"Little things affect little minds."

        - Benjamin Disraeli

"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

        - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart."

        - Henry Clay

"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

        - Matthew 15:14

"I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned."

        - First Duke of Wellington

"I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught."

        - Winston Churchill

"One can endure sorrows alone, but it takes two to be glad."

        - Elbert Hubbard

"We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can.   All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, 'You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms.'"

        - Elayne Boosler

"Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour."

        - Joseph Hall

"I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life at any time he is ready and prepared to do it.  Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within."

        - Preston Bradley

"If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably."

        - Plautus

"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."

        - Andre Maurois

"The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little."

        - Samuel Johnson

"As soils are depleted, human health, vitality, and intelligence go with them."

        - Louis Bromfield

 


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