Snagged from Clue
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silverthorneGo here, and read until you find five quotes that speak your truth.
...like clue, I found many more than that.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James (1842 - 1910)
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889 - 1967)
If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water come from?"
Author Unknown
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Wait here, Audrey. This is between me and the vegetable.
Rick Moranis, 'Little Shop of Horrors'
Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike's Wee Wee, 1998
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
Fontenelle
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now.
Joan Baez (1941 - )
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl Menninger
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Gottfried Reinhardt
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Hope costs nothing.
Colette (1873 - 1954)
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Unknown
...like clue, I found many more than that.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James (1842 - 1910)
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889 - 1967)
If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water come from?"
Author Unknown
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Wait here, Audrey. This is between me and the vegetable.
Rick Moranis, 'Little Shop of Horrors'
Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike's Wee Wee, 1998
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
Fontenelle
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now.
Joan Baez (1941 - )
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb
There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl Menninger
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Gottfried Reinhardt
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Hope costs nothing.
Colette (1873 - 1954)
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Unknown
