quotes about me being me

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ~Victor Hugo



A woman will do anything to keep a pretty figure, but hardly anything to get one. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.



If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. ~Desmond Bagley



God made time, but man made haste. ~Irish Proverb



Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. ~Elbert Hubbard



Artistry is an innate distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the five senses. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~Mother Teresa



Skipping makes me a kid again - not just feel like a kid - a KID again. ~John-Hans Melcher, as posted on iskip.com



Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis



I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness. ~Adeline Knapp I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. ~Leo Tolstoy



They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ~Francis Bacon



The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. ~Hendrik Wilhelm van Loon, The Story of Mankind



The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not. ~Robert Ingersoll, inscription to Volume I, Collected Works



A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ~Henry David Thoreau



Punning and groaning are brothers. ~B.F. Tucson



When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older. ~Author Unknown



The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life. ~Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1883



People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. ~David H. Comins



Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com