Friday Quotes | Food for Thought | Quote Collection 8/21/09

Friday Quotes | Food for Thought | Quote Collection 8/21/09

FRIDAY'S QUOTATIONS - "Food For Weekend Thought" 2009-08-21 Assembled by R. VARGA

FRIDAY’S QUOTATIONS // 2009-08-21

"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."

- Gertrude Stern

"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else."

- Peyton C. March

"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."

- Warren Buffett

"You can’t talk your way out of what you’ve behaved yourself into."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."

- Benjamin Franklin

"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house."

- Lewis Grizzard

"A college professor is a man whose job is to tell students how to solve the problems of life which he himself tried to avoid by becoming a professor."

- Unknown

"Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise."

- William Penn

"Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."

- Unknown

"The Law of the Lid: Leadership ability determines a person’s level of effectiveness."

- John C. Maxwell

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

- Matthew 6:34

"Anger blows out the lamp of the mind."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."

- Voltaire

"Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say."

- William W. Watt

"Be anxious for nothing. / Be thankful for anything. / Be prayerful about everything."

- Apostle Paul

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Eleanor Rigby

- The Beatles (Lyrics: Paul McCartney)

Ah, look at all the lonely people

Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been

Lives in a dream

Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door

Who is it for?

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear

No one comes near.

Look at him working. Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there

What does he care?

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?

Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name

Nobody came

Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave

No one was saved

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?