Favorite quotes

"Insist on yourself; never imitate ... Every great man is unique."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude"
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Life is to be lived, not controlled" Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Believe in yourself our strength grows out of our weakness"
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"The surest poison is time."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Common sense is as rare as genius."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Writing well mean never having to say, 'I guess you had to be there.'"
-- Jef Mallett

 

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
-- Mark Twain

 

"M-morrow we goes into battle, so Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand, and the g-good Book in the other. That if I may die at the muzzle of the rifle... I may know that YOU, blessed Jesus almighty, are with me, and I have no fear, Amen." -Glory (Thank you 54th Regiment)

 

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?" Satchel Paige

 

Let's see: so I ended up drinking Friday night, Saturday night and last night. Oops. LOL. Anyway, my Facebook status today said this:

"Dang mosquitoes got me!!"

Our beloved Tarshi replied to my status update and I literally laughed out loud and thought I would share:

"they're all probably boozed up and flying into walls after taking a sip out of your body"

:smt042

Anyway, had to share! Loved it Tarshi!!

:smt026:smt026:smt026:smt026:smt026

 

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
-- Henry Ford

 

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. Thomas Jefferson

 

"Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back." -Zora Neale Hurston

 

"Those who think speak greatly, those who can't think greatly speak".

 

"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher." Victor Hugo