Starting anew is always a good thing! Here is Vol. 1 of "Artful Living on the Bluff" for you to enjoy. While I am not contributing new material to this blog, please feel free to look around and then visit me at the new and (hopefully) improved "Artful Living on the Bluff" blog at artfullivingonthebluff.blogspot.com

Friday, June 25, 2010

Morning Coffee - Quotes

"If a thing goes without saying - let it."
- Jacob Braude

"Men who never get carried away should be."
- Malcolm Forbes

"When expressing opinions, people make two major blunders: never stopping to think and never thinking to stop."
- Dr. Mardy Grothe

"Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it."
- Ayn Rand

"Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person."
- François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
- Stephen R. Covey

"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them."
- Thomas Sowell

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
- Edgar Watson Howe

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem; it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
- David Friedman

"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."
- Jean De La Fontaine

"The only job where you start at the top is digging a hole."
- Unknown

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."
- Jack Welch

"From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked."
- Luke 12:48

"We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."
- Charles De Montesquieu

"Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it."
- Walter Chrysler

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