Quotes I Like
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
~ Albert Einstein
“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
- Arnold Lobel
“No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.” – Henry Adams
“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.” – Bob Thaves
“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
and vice-versa — me
“It takes a long time to become young.” — Pablo Picasso
“Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.” –Rumi
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” ~Benjamin Franklin
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” — Robert Frost
“Either you can or you can’t. Either way you are right.” — ??
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.” –Albert Einstein
“When I was born I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half.” – Gracie Allen
“All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.” – Unknown
“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.” – Rita Rudner
“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” – Robert Heinlein
“There is no shame in preferring happiness.” ~ Albert Camus
“When I’m working on a problem I never think about beauty .. when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful I know it is wrong” -Fuller
“Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance.” ~Seth Godin
“The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.” – William Gibson
“When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – unknown
When the going gets tough, switch to power tools.
“I would prefer to fail with honor than to win by cheating”
Unknown Author…
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
–unknown author
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
“In my world, everyone’s a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!” — Dr. Seuss
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
– Buddha
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets’ towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you—beyond the next turning of the canyon walls.” – Ed Abbey