QUOTABLE
QUOTES
"Do
your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never do less."
Robert E. Lee
"Democracy
is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Ben
Franklin -1759
"You
see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in
Albert
Einstein
"I hope you have not been leading a double life,
pretending to be wicked
and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy."
Oscar Wilde
"Choose
the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
Francis Bacon
"Never
let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another
way.
And
don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
Satchel Paige
"Always
forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde
"I've
always followed my father's advice: He told me, first, to always keep my word
and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can
be damn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for
trouble."
John Wayne
"A
tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you
well."
Dan Rather
"Don't
be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you
conquer one it makes you that much stronger.
If
you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of
themselves."
Dale Carnegie
"Reflect
on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past
misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens
"Never
open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones
invariably slink in after it."
Baltasar Gracian.
"Don't
tell your friends about your indigestion. "How
are you." is a greeting, not a question."
Arthur Guiterman
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is
no hook."
Thomas Jefferson
"When
you are right, you cannot be too radical. When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"He
who says it can't be done is often interrupted by someone doing it"
Contributed
by Rick Franz 2001
"He
who rows the boat generally doesn't have time to rock it"
Contributed
by Rick Franz 2001
This
last one is my response after an "idiot" Captain at the Akron Police
Department accused me of not being a team player:
"I
take offense at your statement. I am very much the team player. It is just that
we happen to be on different teams!"
Richard
David Reese (1994)
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