Quotes

[jharris]

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 

[PrincessFiona60]

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Rich Cook

 

[Addie]

Getting old is for the young because it is hard work.

My neighbor

 

[Kylie1969]

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time

 

[Kylie1969]

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up

 

[Zhizara]

I am only an egg.

Robert Heinlein

 

[JoAnn L.]

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more that a good bowl of chili. Harry James

 

[Kylie1969]

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it

 

[Kylie1969]

My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said

 

[JoAnn L.]

Had I but a penny in the world, thou shouldst have it for gingerbread. Shakespeare

 

[jharris]

If all thy worldly goods thou art bereft... and in thy store two loaves alone are left...

Sell one and with the dole buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

 

[Kylie1969]

Having a place to go - is a home
Having someone to love - is a family
Having both - is a blessing

 

[Kylie1969]

Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too

 

[tinlizzie]

The weather this weekend is predicted to be mercurial, capricious, uncooperative and ornery, and it's not even one of the worst days.

Mark Twain on New England weather.

 

[2old2change]

No man stands so tall as a man who stoops to help a child.

Abraham Lincoln

 

[JoAnn L.]

He who wants little, always has enough.

 

[Kylie1969]

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it

 

[taxlady]

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it

Great point.

 

[buckytom]

you're playing worse and worse everyday, and right now you're plaing like it's next month.

great moments are born from great opportunities.

herb brooks

 

[JoAnn L.]

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. Agatha Christie