Although there have been some events of interest,for me, in the last 18 months or so, I am going to just list a few of favourite quotes for startes. I hope to put up material covering diverse topics in the near future.
Let me know which of these you like:
1. The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni
2. Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. - Lorraine Anderson
3. It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. - Garrison Keillor
4. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard
5. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen – Albert Einstien
6. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer
7. Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. - Jewish Proverb
8. I can resist anything but temptation. - Oscar Wilde
9. It's better to be a company than to work for a company. - Jim Coudal
10. The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down. - Flip Wilson
11. Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. - Alexander Pope
12. Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon. - Alexander Pope
13. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. - Alexander Pope
14. The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. - Friedrich Nietzsche
15. A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. - Herman Melville
16. I have seen the future and it doesn't work. - Robert Fulford
17. We are always the same age inside. - Gertrude Stein
18. My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
19. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet
20. Hold a true friend with both hands. - Nigerian Proverb
21. While there's life, there's hope. - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
22. There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame. - William Langland
23. When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain
24. Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. - Joseph Addison
25. But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. - Albert Camus
26. You're never too old to become younger. - Mae West
27. Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. - Walter Lippmann
28. Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. - W. C. Fields
29. I never know how much of what I say is true. - Bette Midler
30. Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. - Jane Wagner
31. Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. - Friedrich Nietzsche
32. We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
33. It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it. - Latin Proverb
34. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
35. Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. - Harry S Truman
37. The unspoken word never does harm. – Kossuth
38. "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." – Voltaire
39. Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. - Rudyard Kipling
40. Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. - Edward R. Murrow
41. Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. – Ovid
42. When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. - Henry J. Kaiser
43. Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering
44. Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. - Groucho Marx
45. Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in. - Jennifer Neal
46. Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. - John Ruskin
47. Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. - Henry Ward Beecher
48. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. - Eckhart Tolle
49. Each of us bears his own Hell. – Virgil
50. What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan
