Morning Coffee Quotes

Dreaming of Summer - Northern Wisconsin (Summer 2010)

"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves."
- Sydney J. Harris

"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
- Bob Dylan

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
- Bertrand Russell

"The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies."
- Seneca

"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
- Rita Mae Brown

"We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it."
- Unknown

"Caution is the eldest child of wisdom."
- Victor Hugo

"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else."
- Curtis Cyrus

"An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool."
- Sylvia Fine Kaye

"The trouble with talking too fast is that you may say something you haven't thought of yet."
- Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman)

"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative."
- Maurice Chevalier

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
- Oliver Goldsmith

"To accuse others for one's misfortunes is a sign of want of education; to accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun; to accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
- Epictetus

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
- Dorothy Bernard

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt."
- Eric Sevareid