"All people smile in the same language."
-- Unknown "Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong."
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox "A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks." -- Unknown "What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while.
So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile." -- George Asaf (George H. Powell) "If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook." -- Les Giblin "Let me tell you about Florida politicians. I make them out of whole cloth, just like a tailor makes a suit. I get their name in the newspaper. I get them some publicity and get them on the ballot. Then after the election, we count the votes. And if they don't turn out right, we recount them. And recount them again. Until they do." -- Edward G. Robinson to Humphrey Bogart in the movie "Key Largo" (1948) "When I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up." -- Rodney Dangerfield "You've touched people and know it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, no matter what your life feels like to you right now, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each one of our lives becomes meaningful. -- Laura Schlessinger "The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others." -- Madame De Maintenon "One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve." -- Albert Schweitzer "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
-- James Russell Lowell "Nobody knows what the Department of Energy does, including its employees, who spend their days waiting for the phone to ring, which never happens, except when the Department of Commerce, which is also bored out of its mind, makes prank calls to ask if the Energy Department's refrigerator is running." -- Dave Barry "My grandma says she has eyes in the back of her head... I hope it's not hereditary."
-- Steven Wright "...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." -- Greg Anderson "Life's strict rule is this: You get more of what you focus on. Ignoring this, we abandon our healthiest, concentrative energies and court emotional upheaval." -- Marsha Sinetar "The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour." -- Elbert Hubbard "...what I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can't do and how there's not enough time in which to do it, isn't that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am, and when I think about what I have left to contribute, and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet, then that's what I get. You see, I recognize that it's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it." -- W. Mitchell "Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. ou thought of nothing else if you didn't have it, and thought of other things if you did." -- James Baldwin (Nobody Knows My Name) "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
-- Jeff Valdez "Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost." -- Helen Keller "Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley."
-- James D. Rogers "There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, there's no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make." -- Spirella "...the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value." -- Thomas Paine "I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: 'How can I get in on that?'" -- Dave Barry "Doctors in Singapore have delivered the first baby using both a frozen egg and frozen sperm. Mother and baby are doing fine. In fact, they're both at home chillin'." -- Jay Leno "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." -- Pablo Picasso "Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you." -- Stewart E. White "The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "We will either find a way, or make one." -- Hannibal "Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment." -- Eric Butterworth "You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think." -- Mortimer Adler |