"As you grow
older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you
didn't do."
Zachary Scott
"The biggest troublemaker you'll ever have
to deal with watches you from the mirror every morning. "
(Unknown)
"Life is
not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and
well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up,
totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming....
*Whoa! What a GREAT ride!* !"
(Unknown)
"I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind
is like a piece of steel - very hard to scratch anything on it, and almost
impossible after you get it there, to rub it out."
Abraham Lincoln - 1860
Jim Bowie: Ma...I
killed a man.
Mrs. Bowie: Did he need
killin'?
Jim Bowie: About as
much as any man ever did.
(From the 1952 Movie "The Iron Mistress" Starring Alan Ladd)
Conversation overheard at a flea market.
Customer: "The guy down the aisle has these at a much better
price."
Vendor: "Then go buy from him."
Customer: "He's out of them."
Vendor: (Laughing) "Well, I'll give you a great deal on everything I'm out
of."
"Man is the only animal that blushes, ....... or needs to."
Mark Twain
"Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
Mark Twain
"You can take shoulda, coulda, and woulda in one hand, and fifty cents in the
other hand, and buy yourself a cup of coffee."
Robert Blake as Beretta
"No one ever lay on their deathbed wishing they had spent more time at
the office."
(I don't know the original author but Kelli said it to me years ago. Thank you)
"Grief can take care of itself,
but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it
with."
Mark Twain [b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 - 1910)
"Good breeding consists in concealing how much
we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
Mark Twain [b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 - 1910)
"Few things are harder to put up with than a
good example."
Mark Twain [b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 - 1910)
"Familiarity breeds contempt - and
children."
Mark Twain [b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 - 1910)
"Fame is a vapour; popularity an accident; the
only earthly certainty is oblivion."
Mark Twain [b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 - 1910)
"Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are
always delightful. Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as
you please."
Mark Twain [b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 - 1910)
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which
he never shows to anybody."
Mark Twain [b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 - 1910)
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are
gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
Mark Twain [b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 - 1910)
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of
fear- not absence of fear."
Mark Twain [b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 - 1910)
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little
or no influence on society."
Mark Twain [b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 - 1910)
"Always do right. This will gratify some
people, and astonish the rest."
Mark Twain [b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 - 1910)
"Adam was but human; this explains it all. He
did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it only because it was
forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have
eaten the serpent."
Mark Twain [b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835 - 1910)
