The Grass is never Greener on the other side

'If you are standing on thin ice dont jump up and down'

"Hope is a good thing,maybe the best of things,and good things never die"

"I have a dream."

"BECAUSE I SAID SO!"  (Mom, Dad)
"What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are small matters compared to what lies within us."   (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." (Oh really?)
"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."   (Dorothy Parker) 
 

Ducky

"because I said so" and parents didn't even feel obligated to explain it. That statement just implied "or else".

"Things are looking up"...There's only one way you can look when you are flat on your back!!

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's ALL small stuff.  (Also a book title)

"It take 2 to tango" :-)

Ducky

Very educational and deep Tommyh...hahaha

The Good Die Young

If you can’t do it all,

Do something.

~Anonymous

1.Before you embark on a journey of revenge dig two graves-2.Every thing has beauty but not everyone sees it -3.forget injuries never forget kindness-4.I hear and forget I see and remember .I do and I understand. Confucius

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"--Steven Wright

The best thing I have going for me is my willingness to humiliate myself.  ? author

There are so many jobs to do some of them overdue.  Frederick Fewings.

No harm being poor if you don't know you're poor.  ? author

We have all become that little thing called MORE a fear of not having. St Francis of Assisi.

Forgiveness is between them and God - my job is to arrange the meeting. ..? author

When you forgive, you love and when you love God's light shines on you.? author

You lose something when you lie - human dignity and respect. Kant.

You don't look at the world do you - you just drive straight through it.? author

The road to success is the path to wisdom. William Blake

How nice to be able to afford integrity. ? author.

Kindness inspires people. ? author.

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The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can’t have them. — unknown

Here's one I found recently:  "Talent is G-d given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be grateful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.''

The proof is in the pudding

do as I say ,not as I do (my mums favourite) this appeared to excuse her for all her questionable habits.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill today beacause they pissed me off.

And, also help me to be careful of the toes I step on today as they may be connected to the ass I may have to kiss tomorrow.

It takes courage to be an optimist.   (Ambassador John Hamilton, Lima, Peru circa 2003)

This arose as a quotation by Lord Acton, a British historian of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

How very true!

This too shall pass

Takes one to know one.

Such is life.

We shall fight them on the beaches , etc etc we shall never surrender.

Roll me over in the clover.

It was the worst of times and it was the best of times. Charles Dickens  O prince may flights of angels fly thee to thy rest William Shakespeare.

Boredom is a matter of choice, not circumstance.

The darkest hour is before dawn.

Speak softly and carry a big stick isn'it it?

"I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one coms to the Father, but by me."  - JESUS

Don't cultivate what grows wild on your Arse on your face

be who you want to be be yourself

Trust me -  i'm a Doctor.

President John F. Kennedy - June 26, 1963

President Kennedy arrived in West Berlin on June 26, 1963, following appearances in Bonn, Cologne and Frankfurt, where he had given speeches to huge, wildly cheering crowds. In Berlin, an immense crowd gathered in the Rudolph Wilde Platz near the Berlin Wall to listen to the President who delivered this memorable speech above all the noise, concluding with the now-famous ending.

I am proud to come to this city as the guest of your distinguished Mayor, who has symbolized throughout the world the fighting spirit of West Berlin. And I am proud to visit the Federal Republic with your distinguished Chancellor who for so many years has committed Germany to democracy and freedom and progress, and to come here in the company of my fellow American, General Clay, who has been in this city during its great moments of crisis and will come again if ever needed.

Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was "civis Romanus sum." Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is

 "Ich Bin Ein Berliner."

The poorest man is he whose only wealth is money

Some weight reduction program I was on used this as their slogan:

If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me.

I have no Idea who wrote it first, but they are the ten most inportant words to live by