There are a lot of wonderful sayings "out there" that inspire people, make them smile, give them courage... Some you find on T-shirts, on refrigerator magnets, on thoughtful cards, and... you get the idea.
What are some of your favorites to share? Here are a few of mine to prime the pump:
-- Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. -- A.W. Pinero
-- Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.-- Corrie Ten Boom
-- There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. -- John Andrew Holmes
-- A friend is one who sees right through you and still enjoys the view. -- Wilma Askinas
Posted: Sep 29, 07 3:24pm
"The more you complain, the longer God let's you live."
"Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you."
Posted: Sep 29, 07 3:30pm
My all-time favourite car sticker that I noticed when I lived in Santa Fe, NM...
"My Karma Ran Over My Dogma"
Love it!
Posted: Feb 3, 08 10:23pm
and one of my favorites is "Please don't pray in my schools and I promise not to think in your church"
warmly,
K
Posted: Sep 30, 07 8:30pm
Hmmm. This thread isn't exactly taking off like some of them do. But, not one to give up easily, here are a few more...
Most of us can do more than we think we can, but we usually do less than we think we do. -- anon
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." -- Henry Ford
A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I'll show you A-flat miner
Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end
and my personal favorite:
Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana
Posted: Sep 30, 07 9:10pm
Dutch sayings:
The hurrier I go, the behinder I get
Too soon oldt, too late schmardt
Posted: Nov 10, 07 4:12am
Hmmm. This thread isn't exactly taking off like some of them do.<<<<<
you have some really cool responses, Ark. Unlike the thread I started, titled "Rosie O'...Danzig?"
:-D
I love that last one, about 'flies'
Posted: Jan 23, 08 5:19am
The Olde Philosopher sez:
If you take your laptop computer for a run, you could jog your memory.
Posted: Mar 2, 08 7:09pm
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Sunshine is a matter of attitude. -- F. W. Boreham
Posted: Mar 9, 08 5:22pm
OOOOOOOh! Those are TOO GOOD!
Posted: Mar 17, 08 7:49pm
It is always better to understand less, than to misunderstand a lot.
Posted: Mar 23, 08 2:22pm
Somebody jump in and kudo a few of these...
Posted: Sep 30, 07 8:47pm
My very favorite saying goes like this---"Trust Him when dark doubts assail thee, trust Him when thy faith is small, trust Him when to simply trust Him, seems the hardest thing of all". And, on the lighter side, my favorite saying from Fats Waller is "One never knows do one?"
Posted: Sep 30, 07 9:08pm
-God has no grandchildren... Anonymous
-Taxpayers: Pork Barrel spending Politicians' other white meat. Maybe because oft-times they act like chickens, and squeal over others' earmarks. ..(c)2006 by (moi - anonymous forum)
-I never met a man I didn't like... Will Rogers
-The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco... Mark Twain
-Be good and you will be lonesome,,, Mark Twain
All I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. I can get right down and grovel with him... Mark Twain's notebook #42
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to... Mark Twain
Posted: Nov 2, 07 3:58pm
More Mark Twain/ "I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying that I approved of it."
Posted: Jan 15, 08 1:29am
"Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated"__Mark Twain
Posted: Jan 15, 08 1:31am
"No good deed ever goes unpunished"__W.C. Fields
Posted: Jan 15, 08 1:54am
-"You cannot solve problems with the same mindset that created them". __Albert Einstein
Posted: Sep 30, 07 9:23pm
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Seen on tee shirts:
(On a toddler's) Help! Teddy Kennedy is driving me to Day Care
I'm suffering from PMS... and I have a gun
Bitchy Broads Live Longer (one of my managers at work used to wear it on casual days. The t-shirt fit both ways very well)
I survived Roe vs Wade (seen on a lady obviously under 34)
My wife wears two: a) Old Fart's Wife, and b) I'm with Stupid
My ex-wife used to wear this one when preggers: Mommy in Training
Ahhh... memories
My TX sister wears this when she visits DFW
Posted: Nov 30, 07 11:52pm
T-shirts are great but I like bumper stickers! Here are a few:
BUMPER STICKERS:
I wouldn't be caught dead with a necrophiliac.
Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
I won't rise to the occasion, but I'll slide over to it.
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.
Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?
If you are psychic - think "HONK"
If you can read this, I can slam on my brakes and sue you!
You're just jealous because the voices are talking to me and not you!
Don't get me mad! I'm running out of places to hide the bodies!
You are depriving some poor village of its idiot!
Forget world peace. Visualize using your turn signal.
My Hockey Mom Can Beat Up Your Soccer Mom
Grow your own dope, plant a man.
All Men Are Animals, Some Just Make Better Pets
Some people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them.
Posted: Jan 30, 08 7:29am
Excellent!
Posted: Sep 30, 07 9:25pm
We make plans....God laughs
Everything is temporary if you wait long enough
Its easy enough to be pleasant
when life goes by like a song
but the one worthwhile
Is one who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong
Posted: Sep 30, 07 9:54pm
Thoughts from plaques in a mail order catalog:
God made us parents... Then He laughed
Family is a gift God gives you, then He laughs
Adam and Eve never suffered teething pains... Mark Twain quoted AND Attributed (wonders never cease)
I may be Left-Handed, but I'm always RIGHT
Sister by marriage/blood, Friend by choice
We've been mother and daughter from the very start, but the friendship we've found is a gift of the heart
God saw him/her get tired, a cure not meant to be, so He put His arms around him/her, and whispered, "Come with Me."
What my grandmother gave her surviving children her last visit to the hospital/deathbed vigil: I love you all dearly, now don't shed a tear, I'm spending my Christmas with Jesus this year
The last word in Jesus is US
When all else fails, read the instructions
The three deadliest words in my vocabulary are: I've been thinking
Variant that also fits moi: The second set of the three deadliest words in my vocabulary are: Some Assembly Required
I'm late, I was distracted by all the paparazzi surrounding me
Not perfect, but so close it scares me
Grandkids: My joys and from me, my kids' retribution (c) moi (again, anonymous forum)
A grandchild is sunshine, flowers and rainbows
Grandkid, Niece/Nephew: I enjoy 'em, you take them home
I childproofed my home (but somehow they keep finding ways to get back in)
I learned to swim by my father throwing me into the lake and yelling, "Sink or Swim!" I did all right. The only problem I had was getting out of the sack. (This sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield, or Henny Youngman quote,but I can't find attribution)
Posted: Oct 6, 07 6:20pm
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Sweet ...
I was think of you all, and thought to just check-in.
Just a few moments ago from my doorway ...
Posted: Jan 25, 08 10:43am
hey LanSr I bought one of those. A pillow that said cousins by blood, friends by choice (also said something else but I don't remember that partO
Posted: Oct 3, 07 3:52am
There are some great thots here -- thanks for contributing. Here are a couple more I like:
** Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
** Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they use to.
** Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
** All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
** Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
** In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
** You read about all these terrorists -- most of them came here legally, but they hung around on these expired visas, some for as long as 10-15 years. Now, compare that to Blockbuster; you are two days late with a video and those people are all over you. Let's put Blockbuster in charge of immigration.
Posted: Oct 3, 07 5:57am
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ROFL... great Texican insight from a transplanted Missouran...
I like your weather one, the feeling blue, and yes, put Blockbuster in charge of immigration!
That which does not destroy me makes me stronger - Nietzche
Better life through chemistry - Anon (sure gets around, huh?)
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain
There are no healthy minds, and nothing saves any man but accident--the accident of not having his malady put to the supreme test.- ibid
One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the pleasure derived from being noticed. Perhaps it is not merely common, but universal.-ibid
Seen on another t-shirt
Posted: Oct 3, 07 5:07am
Grandchildren are our reward for not killing our children.
Posted: Oct 3, 07 6:23am
I love quotes; I think I got that from my grandmother.
"A smile is a curve that can set a-lot of things straight."
"May your world be full of color and your crayons
never melt." - Tymm
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today...it's already tomorrow in Australia."
Charles Schultz
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
Wayne Gretzky
"It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for who you are not."
"Heal the past; live the present; dream the future."
"Knowledge is contagious. Infect."
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." Danny Kaye
"What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
one more....
"When you throw dirt, you lose ground."
Posted: Nov 22, 07 7:18pm
Oh, Danny Kaye, I miss him.
"Inspector General" was my favorite.
Posted: Nov 28, 07 1:55pm
These are wonderful thoughts for the day.
Posted: Oct 3, 07 6:53am
Here are a few for the grist mill - all originals ... I believe ... :
Being in love is a belief that you are exempt from reality.
People who want to get married in the worst way ... usually do.
My poor achy knees are on their last legs.
Children should be seen and not heard while conversations should be obscene and overheard.
Playing with dead things ... can be remedied with Viagra.
I eat only food that begins with the letter A ... like A Dove Bar, A hoagy (that lets you know I'm from Philly!) and a large order of french fries.
In Pittsburgh, they call hockey star, Sid Crosby, Sid "the Kid." I wonder what they would call him if he insisted on being called Sidney?
Friends are what you settle for when you can't get sex.
If you want to know if someone is telling you the truth, watch his feet, not his mouth. A mouth can lie but where his feet go tells you what he is really about.
The last one is not original, but is not attributed to anyone in particular.
The definition of "drunk" is the guy on the next barstool who is behaving just like you.
Posted: Jan 25, 08 9:56am
Bumper Stickers:
If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.
If going to church makes you a Christian, does going to the garage make you a car?
I took a pain pill, so why are you still here?
Ahhh, I see the Screw-up Fairy has visited us again.
Posted: Oct 6, 07 4:03pm
POSITIVE QUOTE OF THE DAY
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
-- J.B. Priestly (1894-1984) English Author
Posted: Oct 6, 07 4:39pm
It ain't what I don't know that gets me in trouble - it's what I 'know', THAT AIN'T SO, that cause all my problems... Anon
Tryin' to reason with you, boy, is like tryin' to push a rope up a waterfall ! (Grandpa used to say that to me a lot, for some reason, when I was younger...)
Skunk smells his own hole first. (What Grandma used to say when someone far- , er, passed gas, and after the green miasmic air cleared, someone would ask who did that ...)
Shoot, sh**, or get offa the pot - (What she further said, when I was slow on the deal with whist, or checking or calling at 5 card stud)
Posted: Oct 6, 07 6:11pm
“Whether you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
- Henry Ford
A man doesn’t learn to understand anything unless he loves it.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
-Thoreau
And as a passionate dancer (ME--dance is my thing):
“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
Martha Graham, 1893-1992
“When you perform, you are out of yourself – larger, more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes, heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.”
Agnes De Mille
“Remember why it is you started doing this dance in the first place. It has never been nor will it ever be about hitting a break, doing that certain step everyone else is doing, syncopating, or spinning faster and harder than anyone else. The reason we all got into this…..was to have fun, meet new friends and have a wonderful tactile ‘conversation’ on the dance floor. Have a good time out there. Don’t take it so seriously.”
Mario Robau, Jr.
“Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.”
Martha Graham, 1893-1992
“I don’t want people who WANT to dance, I want people who HAVE to dance.”
George Balanchine, 1904-1993
“The real reason I dance is because I want to explode.”
Bill Evans
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
Oh my, this is my truth. Love this quote.
>>>I live by this quote when I dance. Deb
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it: Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
- Goethe
Posted: Oct 6, 07 10:00pm
"To Live is to Dance, To Dance is to Live"
~Snoopy~
Posted: Nov 17, 07 10:18am
Here's another one I like from Martha Graham: "The body is our glory, our hazard and our care" (true for us all, not just dancer).