Interesting Quotes

[LAWRENCE]

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
--Robert Copeland

People are lonely, because they build walls instead of bridges.
--Unknown

When we hear news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
--Voltaire

[LAWRENCE]

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
--Wang Yang-Ming

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

[LAWRENCE]

I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type. - Bob Hope

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. - Sir Norman Wisdom

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late. -Mike Tyson

You know you're getting fat when you can pinch an inch on your forehead. - John Mendoza

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.- Robert Quillen

People say that age is just a state of mind. I say it's more about the state of your body. - Geoffrey Parfitt

[JackPumpkin]

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[LAWRENCE]

The family fireside is the best of schools.

--Arnold Glasgow

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

--George Washington

Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be; the last of life for which the first was made.

--Robert Browning

[LAWRENCE]

Parents are not quite interested in justice. They are interested in quiet.

--Bill Cosby

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

--E.M. Bounds

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

--Angela Schwindt

[LAWRENCE]

A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
--Ruth Bell Graham

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
--Sir John Lubbock

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
--George Eliot

[LAWRENCE]

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud

They do not love who do not show their love.
William Shakespeare

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

[LAWRENCE]

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh

If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[LAWRENCE]

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
Chinua Achebe

You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.
Meredith Willson

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung