Quote Collection | Short Quotes | Food for Thought | 7/24/09

Quote Collection | Short Quotes | Food for Thought | 7/24/09

FRIDAY'S QUOTATIONS - "Food For Weekend Thought" 2009-07-24 Assembled by R. VARGA

FRIDAY’S QUOTATIONS // July 24th, 2009

"People with clear, written goals accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine."

- Brian Tracy

"Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

- Flannery O'Connor

"If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn."

- Josh Billings

"It's a sad time when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you."

- Lillian Hellman

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

- Anne Lamott

"True charity is the desire to be useful to someone with no thought of recompense in return."

- Emanuel Swedenborg

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."

- Salvador Dali

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."

- Kimberly Johnson

"The American Republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others."

- Alain de Botton

"A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

- Abraham Lincoln

"If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?"

- George Carlin

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something."

- Wilson Mizner

"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato."

- Lewis Grizzard

"Let not the sun go down upon your wrath."

- Ephesians 4:26

"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds ceases to be a charity and is only pride and ostentation.

- William Hutton

"When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."

- Unknown

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted:24.07.2009, 11:43 (No subject)

Thanks for those, you always come up with a mix of great ones Very Happy

...serious and fun.