Archive for October, 2005

Erma Bombeck

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for
her birthday.

Anonymous

A true friend remembers your birthday but not your age.

John Glenn

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

Dorothea Kent

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it’s because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

John Atkinson

If you don’t run your own life, someone else will.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Mary Pickford

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Les Brown

Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Marcell Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Michael Jordan

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Lucille Ball

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to
love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Justice Marla Luckert, Kansas Supreme Court


Rabbi Israel Salanter

First a person should put his house together, then his town, then the world.

William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.