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

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Moring Coffee Quotes



"The two greatest mistakes in life are mathematical: misjudging the brevity of life and miscalculating the length of eternity."
- Unknown

"It is not seeing the difficulties that prevents action, but failing to see the resources."
- John White

"Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so."
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

"It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations."
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Never let the urgent crowd out the important."
- Stephen R. Covey

"Football is a sport that bears the same relationship to education that bullfighting does to agriculture."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."
- Aaron Levenstein

"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."
- Adlai Stevenson

"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."
- Sir Cecil Beaton

"I'd rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer."
- Marilyn vos Savant

"Faith is not a thing which one loses; we merely cease to shape our lives by it."
- Georges Bernanos

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
- Benjamin Franklin

"There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you."
- William Hazlitt

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
- James Baldwin

"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
- Thomas Paine

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
- Emily Dickinson

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."
- Robert Brault

"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he should be, and he will become what he could be."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
- Jerry Seinfeld

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."
- Charles Evans Hughes

"The world is full of suffering; it is also full of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and a willingness to remain vulnerable."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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