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, January 8, 2011

Morning Coffee Quotes

Animal Kingdom - Summer 2010

"I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose fitting clothing. If I had any loose fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed up in the first place!"
- Unknown

"I am an old man and have known many troubles, but most of them never happened."
- Mark Twain

"An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued."
- Irvin S. Cobb

"If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."
- John Pierpont Morgan

"A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy."
- Stella Benson

"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."
- Archibald McLeish

"Science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life."
- Will Durant

"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."
- Kurt Vonnegut

"To be tested is good. The challenged life is the best therapist."
- Gail Sheehy

"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last."
- Joseph Fort Newton

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
- Albert Einstein

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde

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

1 comment:

  1. I so love coming here to read the quotes,they make my day,make me smile and sometimes actually give me something to think about....
    Thanks and Happy New Year(a bit late)
    ~Sharon~

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