They said.....

Some of the quotes from some greats and not so greats would have inspired us, left us thinking ... here are those ones which have made me miss my breath several times......For some this might seem stupid, for others it might seem worth reading... carry on..

• Unselfishness is something that exists only in the dictionary, with the exception of a mother.


• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment


• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."


• The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."


• The length of the movie shud be directly proportional to the endurance of the bladder...


• God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.


• REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL


• Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."


• "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride"


• "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
  - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)


• “The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge." - Peter Drucker.


• Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away,"


• Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement. "Mark Twain


• If you hate a person,you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isnt part of ourselves doesnt distur us.... Herman Hesse


• Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience." - Montaigne.


• Chance favors the prepared mind-louis pascal.


• God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one.
  So when we finally meet the right people,
  We should know how to be grateful to them.


• The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values." -Dean William R. Inge


• The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." Paul Fix (1901 ~ 1983


• Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever." Thomas Secker (1693 ~ 1768, former Archbishop of Canterbury


• "A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." Kahlil Gibran.


• Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another
  Madonna


• You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward-Jame Thurber


• There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures - James Thurber
  “There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.”


• Defeat is not when you fall down,It's when you refuse to get


• "I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world." - Margaret Mead.


• "As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." - Albert Einstein.


• Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life - only a precious few have the same one


• Something we were withholding made us weakUntil we found it was ourselves. -Robert Frost


• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs


• It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. Francis Bacon, Sr.


• The heart is happiest when it beats for others


• He who laughs last didn't get the joke.


• Only those who attempt the absurd can acheive the impossible.


• "A bride at her second wedding does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting." - Helen Rowland


• I live in my own little world.But it's OK... They know meHere!


• Life isn't about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain."


• Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground


• You are old, when you fall down; you wonder what else you can do while you're down there.


• It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped -Anthony Robbins


• Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.- Stephen King


• Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.- Henrik Ibsen


• A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.- Mark Twain


• A Father is a man with pictures in his wallet, where he used to keep his money when he was single.


• It doesn’t matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.


• Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves