Interesting Quotes

[LAWRENCE]

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel to set in the hearts of honest men, but be careful that you do not take the day and leave out the gratitude.
E.P. Powell

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
W.J. Cameron

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck

[LAWRENCE]

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte

To get back my youth, I would do anything in the world. Except exercise, get up early or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde

Luck is the residue of design.
Branch Rickey

[LAWRENCE]

When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up.
J. Peterman

The trouble with opportunity is that it's always more recognizable going than coming.
Unknown

A man who works with his hands is a laborer. A man who works with his brain is a craftsman. But a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Louis Nizer

[LAWRENCE]

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller

[LAWRENCE]

When everything seems to be going against you, remember the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert Ingersoll

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

[LAWRENCE]

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Blaise Pascal

All progress is precarious and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

[LAWRENCE]

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast; you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[LAWRENCE]

Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in.
Unknown

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale

[LAWRENCE]

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Warren Beatty

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
Robert Quillen

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran

[LAWRENCE]

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Euripides

Hating people is like burning down your own house to try to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emerson Fosdick