by Curt Kovener
Some of these are humorous. Some of these are life lessons. Some of these are said by the famous. Some are anonymous nuggets. Some of these are appropriate. Some of these are inappropriate.
But all will have a message for you if you are willing to listen.
•There are very few people who don’t become more interesting when they stop talking. ~Mary Lowry
•The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. ~Norman Schwarzkopf
•I think between us, Bill Clinton and I have settled any lingering myths about the brilliance of Rhodes scholars. ~Kris Kristofferson
•You can take better care of your secret than another can. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
•I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is—try to please everybody. ~Herbert Swope
•In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. ~John Collins
•Social tact is making your company feel at home, even though you wish they were.
•The people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all. ~Gilbert Chesterton
•He was like a rooster who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ~George Eliot
•So many of our dreams at first seem impossible; then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. ~Christopher Reeve
•Knowledge is like money. If you keep quiet about it, people will think you’ve got more than you have.
•Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Be able to do your duty without being supervised. ~Ann Landers
•The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. ~Helen Hayes
•Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. ~Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
•The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov
•If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. ~Woody Allen
•Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. ~John Adams
•My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. ~Steven Wright
•My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. She drinks right out of the bottle. ~Henny Youngman
•Don’t you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There’s once was one marked “Brightness”, but it didn’t work. ~Gallagher
•There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices to drown out the foolish. ~Louis L’Amour