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

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Morning Coffee Quotes

Smoky Mountains National Park - Summer 2010
"Truth is not determined by the volume of the voice."
- Chinese Proverb

"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."
- Marcus T. Cicero

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
- Robert G. Ingersoll

"If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart."
- Marilyn vos Savant

"You can't know too much, but you can say too much."
- Calvin Coolidge

"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."
- William Shakespeare

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
- John Steinbeck

"Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are."
- Howard Hughes

"Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door."
- Jerry Seinfeld

"A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny."
- Yiddish Proverb

"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."
- Eric Hoffer

"Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!"
- Thomas Carlyle

"There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation."
- Germaine de Stael

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