A Few Good Quotes February 24, 2014
Posted by nrhatch in Humor, Word Play, Writing & Writers.comments closed
Do It! Let’s Get Off Our Buts by Peter McWilliams contains a plethora of fantastic quotes.
Here are a few favorites:
1. Do or do not. There is no try. ~ Yoda
2. It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ~ Sally Kempton
3. Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. ~ Michael Pritchard
4. Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. ~ Garrison Keillor
5. Only two things are infinite ~ the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the former. ~ Albert Einstein
6. The ancestor of every action is a thought. ~ Emerson
7. Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ~ Kin Hubbard
8. Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. ~ Madonna
9. The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. ~ Jules Renard
10. Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. ~ George Bernard Shaw
11. Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper. ~ Quentin Crisp
12. I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific. ~ Lily Tomlin
13. How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ~ Spanish Proverb
14. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ~ Jules Renard
15. The sun will set without thy assistance. ~ The Talmud
16. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to leave alone. ~ Thoreau
17. There is only one success ~ to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~ Christopher Morley
18. What is money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. ~ Bob Dylan
19. There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~ Gandhi
20. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. ~ Abraham Maslow
21. When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
22. He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. ~ The Koran
Aah . . . that’s better!
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