Favorite quotes

"Speak clearly,if you speak at all; carve every before you let it fall." : Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

"A man's feet should be planted in his country,but his eyes should survey the world." : George Santayana

 

"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes.The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." : Dale E. Turner

 

"I keep six honest serving-men(They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Who and Where." Kipling

 

"To know the road ahead,ask those coming back.": Chinese Proverb

 

"The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." : Thomas Szasz

 

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is. really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool." : Bacon

 

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

-Norman Vincent Peale

 

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Lyndon B. Johnson

 

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
Esther Dyson,

 

Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
W.E.B. Du Bois

 

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson

 

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead

 

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch

 

Du Bois has some pretty interesting social theories He's one of my favorite sociologists lol.

Like this quote, never read this one before, thanks for sharing!

 

If you can't accept losing, you can't win."
-Vince Lombardi



"If you fall on the concrete, then that's your asphalt."
- Kanye West



"What is popular is not always right, what is right is not always popular."
-Howard Cosell



"You have enemies?? GOOD!! That means you stood up for something."
-Eminem



"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes, it doesn't mean he lacks vision."
-Stevie Wonder



"Throw caution to the wind and just do it."
-Carrie Underwood



"Effective action is always unjust"
-Maya Angelou

 

these 2 are my favorites.....


"If you're not 15 minutes early, you're LATE!!"
-Vince Lombardi


"Hurt people HURT people."
-Bill Cosby

 

A nice little reminder of some good in this world.

 

"Fasten your seat belts it's going to be a bumpy night." Margo Channing. All About Eve (1951)

 

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (1807-1882)