Wit & Wisdom

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:26 pm

If you feel constrained to look for toughts, use a mirror, not a telescope.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:36 am

"Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age."

William Feather,

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:27 am

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare,quoted in the Boise Idaho Statesman

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:24 pm

"The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face."

Jack Handey

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:17 am

"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."

Clarence Darrow

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:18 am

half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal,quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:12 am

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."

Franklin P. Jones

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:47 pm

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats,quoted in the Montreal Gazette

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:43 pm

Your job gives you authority..Your behaviour earns you respect.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:14 am

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

H.L.Mencken,quoted in The New York Times

Remember_The_Name · Post by **Remember_The_Name** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:44 am

TigerTownTurkey wrote:"The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face."

Jack Handey

very true

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:47 am

Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:11 am

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart,quoted in the Montreal Gazette

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:22 am

The older I get the less sure I am about a lot of things, and the more sure I am of a few things.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:21 am

A cat, by any other name, is still a sneaky little furball that barfs on the furniture.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:19 am

Morality is moral only when it is voluntary.

Journalist Lincoln Steffens, quoted in the Associated Press

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:46 am

A chill in the air, a cat on the lap, a mug of chocolate, and a good book. Ah, Paradise!

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:33 pm

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:00 pm

Great people talk about ideas,average people talk about things,and small people talk about wine.

Fran lebowitz,quoted in The Washington Monthly

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:24 pm

Tact is making a point without making an enemy.