"If you aren't where you are, you are no place." (Col. Potter, M*A*S*H)
From Henry David Thoreau:
- The universe is wider than our views of it
- It's not worthwhile to go round the world to count cats in Zanzibar
- Things do not change; we change
- Money is not required to buy the necessities of the soul
- Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?
"The counsel of fools is all the more dangerous the more of them there are." (King Olaf of Norway, 938-1006 AD)
"Never suppress a generous thought." (Camilla Kimball, 1894-1987)
"Too often we hear what we want to hear instead of what we should have heard." (Brent L. Top, author)
"Disappointment comes to visit on occasion but should never be allowed to stay." (Richard Norby, author)
"The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces." (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister)
"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." (Chief Seattle)
"They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives." (Frank Herbert, Children of Dune)
You may quote any of these, anytime and to anybody. (smile)
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