My Favorite Quotes(Various Sources) |
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| Accomplishments | The reward of a task well done is to be called to a bigger task. |
| Aging | I
can live with my arthritis. My
Dentures fit me fine. I've adjusted to bifocals. But I sure do miss my mind. |
| Alcohol | The trouble with whiskey is that it makes a new man out of you and then the new man has to have a drink. |
| Anger | Angry people are hurt people. |
| Bald | The Lord is great, the Lord is fair. He gave some men brains and some men hair. |
| Beauty | A thing of beauty is a thing forever. - Elaine |
| Behavior | A lady is a person who makes is easy for a man to be a gentleman. |
| Birth control | Do not drink and park. Accidents cause people. |
| Boundaries | Never tear down a fence until you know why it was placed there. |
| Charm | A charming conversationalist is one who reminds others of things to say and then listens while they say them. |
| Charm | Charm is the ability to make the other person think that both of you are quite wonderful. |
| Childhood | It is never too late to have a happy childhood. |
| Class | I have lots of class: it just ain't upper class. - Elaine Welch |
| Courage | Courage is not the absence of fear: It is the mastery of it. |
| Different | I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it. |
| Determination | Behind
every successful woman is a man who tried to stop her. - Kathy Wilson. |
| Faith | It takes faith to keep on keeping on |
| Gambling | Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. |
| Gardening | You can't worry and garden at the same time. |
| Goals | The higher we climb, the harder it is to hold on. - Merle Haggart |
| Government Spending |
A billion here, a billion there; pretty soon you're talking real money. - Everett Dirkson. |
| Grumpy | Sometimes I wake up grumpy; other times I let him/her sleep. |
| Health | I'm in mighty fine shape for the shape I'm in. - Ronald "Al" Allen. |
| HMO | My HMO is more disabled than I am. - Elaine Welch |
| HMO | They are like the Keystone Cops in slow motion. - Elaine Welch |
| Hot flashes | Real women don't have hot flashes, they have power surges. |
| Laughter | Laughter is inner massage. |
| Learning | God desires that we learn and continue to learn, but this involves some unlearning. - Marion G. Romney |
| Life | Life is breathtaking, and giving. |
| Logic | One person's logic is another persons humor. |
| Marriage | A good marriage takes time. A bad marriage takes more time. |
| Murphy's | If there's a 50-50 chance that something will go wrong, 9 times out of 10 it will. |
| Parenting | A good mother is not one you can lean on, a good mother makes leaning unnecessary. |
| Parenting | Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home. |
| Parenting | Every family is a home-school family because the home is where children learn the values they will carry with them the rest of their lives. - Jim Jacob |
| Problems | Those who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it. - William Raspberry |
| Quality | Pearls do not dissolve in mire. |
| Rules | No roller skates on the stairs. ~Elaine Welch |
| Rules | No yelling aloud. ~Elaine Welch |
| Self | Do not participate in your own degradation. |
| Teaching | Teach by The Spirit. |
| Time | What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour? - Emerson |
| Time | Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. |
| Truth | The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. - said to be a Chinese Proverb |
| Words | An oral contract isn't worth the paper it is written on. ~Dewey, Cheetem and Howe |
| Words | When all is said and done, usually more is said than done. |
4/17/00