Quote Of the Day

[Beryl]

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space. Chris Hadfield

 

[Flyingfish]

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on? George Carlin

 

[Beryl]

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way. ... Lester B. Pearson, the 14th Prime Minister of Canada, was a scholar, statesman, soldier and diplomat. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis.

 

[bob]

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money - W. C. Fields







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[Flyingfish]

People see God everyday, they just don't recognize him. - Pearl Bailey

 

[Beryl]

Last quote put me in mind of this poem... so I am quoting it here!

Vestigia

I TOOK a day to search for God,
And found Him not. But as I trod
By rocky ledge, through woods untamed,
Just where one scarlet lily flamed,
I saw His footprint in the sod.

Then suddenly, all unaware,
Far off in the deep shadows, where
A solitary hermit thrush
Sang through the holy twilight hush—
I heard His voice upon the air.

And even as I marvelled how
God gives us Heaven here and now,
In a stir of wind that hardly shook
The poplar leaves beside the brook—
His hand was light upon my brow.

At last with evening as I turned
Homeward, and thought what I had learned
And all that there was still to probe—
I caught the glory of His robe
Where the last fires of sunset burned.

Back to the world with quickening start
I looked and longed for any part
In making saving Beauty be . . .
And from that kindling ecstasy
I knew God dwelt within my heart.

Bliss Carman 1861-1929

 

[glo-ree-bee]

Sorrow looks back,
Worry looks around,
Faith looks up!!

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[bob]

Don’t sweat the petty things, and don’t pet the sweaty things. – George Carlin

 

[Flyingfish]

Even Napoleon had his Watergate - Yogi Berra

 

[glo-ree-bee]

Patriotism is easy to understand in America - it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ~Calvin Coolidge

 

[bob]

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe
is that none of it has tried to contact us."....Calvin (Calvin and Hobbs)

"Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise,"
"I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself." - Bob Dylan

Two of my all time favorites

 

[Flyingfish]

As you get older, it's harder to have heroes. But it is necessary. - Ernest Hemingway

 

[bob]

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many

 

[Flyingfish]

Look your best, who said love is blind. Mae West

 

[Flyingfish]

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. Benjamin Franklin

 

[glo-ree-bee]

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
– Bob Hope

 

[Flyingfish]

When I was a boy, the Dead Sea was only sick. - George Burns

 

[glo-ree-bee]

I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde

 

[Flyingfish]

The government is us; we are the government, you & I. - Teddy Roosevelt

 

[Beryl]

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx