Fletch
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Fat, drunk and intelligent ain't much better.The Wolf said:
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A Lot o' Mottos: What are your words to live by?
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K.D. Lightner
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My mother said to me years ago: Don't take life too seriously; you won't get out of it alive, anyway.
I always liked Polonius' advice to his son, Laertes, in Hamlet: To thine own self be true.
As for weight loss advise, here is another one, gleaned from the writer, Colette: Oh, give me the heartbreak of unrequited love if it will help me to lose a few pounds."
karol
I always liked Polonius' advice to his son, Laertes, in Hamlet: To thine own self be true.
As for weight loss advise, here is another one, gleaned from the writer, Colette: Oh, give me the heartbreak of unrequited love if it will help me to lose a few pounds."
karol
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"You grow up the day you have the first real laugh...at yourself" -- Ethel Barrymore
You can't take yourself too seriously. I make it my goal to find humor in life everyday.
You can't take yourself too seriously. I make it my goal to find humor in life everyday.
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My Mama always said;
"If you're going to do it at all, do it right."
Those words float through my head all the time.
LD
"If you're going to do it at all, do it right."
Those words float through my head all the time.
LD
Mike1939
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Happy thoughts! - Cary Grant
Joie DeVive
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For life: Live each day like it is your last, learn as if you will live forever. - Ghandi
As a teacher: "I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings" Albert Einstein
A bit of advice from my father: Whenever possible, let the other guy save face.
As a teacher: "I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings" Albert Einstein
A bit of advice from my father: Whenever possible, let the other guy save face.
Fletch
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Anyone's good in a crisis. It's everyday life that's the killer.
- attributed to Chekhov
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
- Kierkegaard
- attributed to Chekhov
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
- Kierkegaard
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Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge. Proverbs 14:7
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Secret to a long life is to keep breathing as long as possible.
Or the fella who climbed Everest with no oxygen, when asked why he went up there to die, replied "I didn't, I went up there to live"
Also, the signature of Sergei is a great one, I paraphrase:
One should not arrive, on the day of their death, by sliding peacefully into their coffin all prim and proper, looking well for the onlookers. You should skid in, martini in one hand, chocolate in the other, saying "Wooo Hoo! What a ride!"
Cheers
Craig
Or the fella who climbed Everest with no oxygen, when asked why he went up there to die, replied "I didn't, I went up there to live"
Also, the signature of Sergei is a great one, I paraphrase:
One should not arrive, on the day of their death, by sliding peacefully into their coffin all prim and proper, looking well for the onlookers. You should skid in, martini in one hand, chocolate in the other, saying "Wooo Hoo! What a ride!"
Cheers
Craig
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When we have school meetings I use this one. Alot!
I'd spit on a spark plug if I'd think It'll work! Except I don't say SPIT
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I'd spit on a spark plug if I'd think It'll work! Except I don't say SPIT
)Flying Scotsman
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Not sure who first said this, but I like it:
"You can pretend to be serious, but you can't pretend to be funny."
And one I refer to a lot when discussing flying, an old saying given to new pilots-in-training in WWII:
"The object of the game is not to cheat death. It's never to let him play the game."
"You can pretend to be serious, but you can't pretend to be funny."
And one I refer to a lot when discussing flying, an old saying given to new pilots-in-training in WWII:
"The object of the game is not to cheat death. It's never to let him play the game."
June
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Gandhi
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big kahuna
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"right wrongs nobody"
Joie DeVive
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One more
I just ran across this one in Wild Women Talk About Love and liked it so much I thought it needed to be here.
"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much." - Bessie Stanley, poet
I just ran across this one in Wild Women Talk About Love and liked it so much I thought it needed to be here.
"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much." - Bessie Stanley, poet
Doctor Strange
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Once in a while
You get shown the light
In the strangest of places
If you look at it right
- Grateful Dead ("Scarlet Begonias"; lyrics by Robert Hunter)
You get shown the light
In the strangest of places
If you look at it right
- Grateful Dead ("Scarlet Begonias"; lyrics by Robert Hunter)
warbird
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Illigitimus Non Carborundum
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I have many. Mostly I seem to utilize:
"The only way through is through."
For when things are challenging.
"You can't go backwards through a brick wall."
For when regret threatens to set in.
"Ignorance isn't bliss, it's just ignorance." -Jesse Russell
I use this. A lot.
"The only way through is through."
For when things are challenging.
"You can't go backwards through a brick wall."
For when regret threatens to set in.
"Ignorance isn't bliss, it's just ignorance." -Jesse Russell
I use this. A lot.
warbird
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beaucaillou said:
Can you go forwards through a brick wall? Thats a pretty impressive feat.
Fletch
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See statement immediately above that one.
One more from me:
"One of the dangers of our age, more damaging than ever before, is total obsession with partial ideas."
-Lancelot Law Whyte, physicist-philosopher
One more from me:
"One of the dangers of our age, more damaging than ever before, is total obsession with partial ideas."
-Lancelot Law Whyte, physicist-philosopher
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