Morning Coffee Quotes

Northern Wisconsin - Summer 2010

"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk or running for political office."
- Shirley McLaine

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
- Seneca

"Eating my own words has never given me indigestion."
- Winston Churchill

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

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
- Max Lucado

"The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything."
- Albert Einstein

"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."
- Franklin P. Jones

"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile."
- Bertrand Russell

"Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity."
- Jean de la Bruyere

"Necessity teaches even the lame to dance."
- German Proverb

"The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern."
- Ronald Reagan

"I have to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to know butterflies."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"Time is the justice that examines all offenders."
- William Shakespeare

"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
- Franklin Pierce Adams

"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."
- Clarence Darrow

"He is rich who owes nothing."
- Hungarian Proverb

"The strongest of all warriors are these two --Time and Patience."
- Leo Tolstoy

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
- Leonardo da Vinci