Dawg's Quotation Thread

[SweetSassyVixen]

Jewish Proverb

"A mother understands what a child does not say."

 

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Ruth Bell Graham

"As a mother, my job is to take care of what is possible and trust God with the impossible."

 

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Leopold Stokowski

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

 

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Anonymous

Music is what feelings sound like.

 

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Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.

 

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Andrew Carnegie

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

 

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Tom Wilson

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.
Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

 

[Dawg]

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Richard L. Evans

 

[Dawg]

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Denis Waitley

 

[Dawg]

Bingo!

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option

Anonymous

 

[Dawg]

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

Chris Rock

 

[Dawg]

Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last

Anonymous

 

[Dawg]

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

 

[Dawg]

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

 

[Dawg]

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Maria Robinson

 

[Dawg]

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.

Bill Cosby

 

[SweetSassyVixen]

Sir Edmund Hillary, first to summit Everest (1953)

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

 

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William Jennings Bryan

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

 

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Thomas Bray

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. .

 

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Ramakrishna

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

 

[Dawg]

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

George Carlin

 

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Haddon W. Robinson

What worries you, masters you.

 

[Dawg]

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it

Mae West

 

[Dawg]

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Baltasar Gracian

 

[Dawg]

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie