Notable Quotes

[Littlejoe]

This is Maturity: To be able to stick with a job until it's finished; to do one's duty without being supervised; to be able to carry money without spending it; and to be able to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

- Dear Abby's Mother

[Littlejoe]

From my signature line:

"... there are two parties in Washington, the stupid party and the evil party, who occasionally get together and do something both stupid and evil, and this is called bipartisanship." - Everett Dirksen

[stfoskey15]

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
-John Secondari

[rogue06]

"The worst form of inequality is trying to make unequal things equal." --Aristotle

[rogue06]

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self --Ernest Hemingway

[Littlejoe]

1. Be clean both inside and out.
2. Neither look up to the rich or down to the poor
3. Lose, if need be, without squealing
4. Win without bragging.
5. Always be considerate of women, children and older people.
6. Be too brave to lie.
7. Be too generous to cheat.
8. Take your share of the world and let others take theirs


- The 8 rules George Washington Carver lived by-

[shunyadragon]

"When mediocrity reigns
No one gets wet."

Anonymous, an unknown unsuccessful candidate for class president at Cornell University 1940. In the poem 'Will they ever learn?' by Frank Doonan

[rogue06]

I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian. --St. Ignatius

[rogue06]

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. --Billy Graham

[mossrose]

"I am willing to take what You give.
To lack what You withhold.
To relinquish what You take.
To go where You command.
To be what You require.
I am, O Lord, wholly and forever yours."

--missionary Susan Fitkin

[One Bad Pig]

"In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself." —Benjamin Franklin, 1771

[Littlejoe]

"Use the Force" --Gandalf to Captain Kirk in the Chronicles of Narnia

[rogue06]

"Use the Force" --Gandalf to Captain Kirk in the Chronicles of Narnia

[stfoskey15]

"Perhaps you are a wizard" -Socrates

[fm93]

"There is nothing new under the sun."--Shakespeare, quoting Ecclesiastes