What's your favorite, famous (or not) saying?

[yukionna]

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

[airstreamers]

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.

[Moonstruck]

Don't confuse ability with potential

[yukionna]

"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

[airstreamers]

There is no such thing as government money, only taxpayer money.

[Fyrzowt]

In light of events in Virginia:

"All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good men to do nothing." Edmunde Burke

[airstreamers]

and another one for the va incident:

if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns!

[yukionna]

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." - Mahatma Gandhi

[Paul Ouellette]

Group :

This is a very good thread....here's some I use on occasion...

"there's always a way"

"we don't know where we're going...but we're making great progress"

I often remind clients (re-divorce)..."it's cheaper to keep her" !!

My father's classic toast..."Here's to you, as good as you are, & to me as bad as I am...but as good as you are & as bad as I am...I'm as good as you are...as bad as I am."

From Albert Einstein..."Not everything that counts can be counted, & not everything that can be counted counts"

About sailing..."someone with little experience that buys a boat & then thinks himself a captain, is like the guy who goes into McDonalds for a big Mac & then thinks he's Mayor McCheese".

About life..."you don't stop laughing when you get old, you get old when you stop laughing"

Finally, this one from Rodney Dangerfield..."It's easy to grin when your ship comes in & you think you have the stock market beat...but the man who's worthwhile is the man who can smile, when his shorts are too tight in the seat".

[yukionna]

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."- Vincent Van Gogh

[wheel interested]

Life is what gets in the way while you are busy making plans

[yukionna]

Thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become habits, habits become character, character becomes destiny.

[Fyrzowt]

Teach a man to fish, and a liar is born.

[codybear]

I know Jack!

[yukionna]

You can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

[rickandsandi]

"Six of one half a dozen of the other"

"I see said the blind man to his deaf wife as he picked up his hammer and saw"

[wheel interested]

I've heard a few phrases regionally that I normally don't hear at home.

Well I'll be John Brown.

That really tickled me.

That's just ornery.

you betcha, eh?

[yukionna]

Making a "living" is not the same thing as "making a life.

[Fyrzowt]

"That's the way the mop flops"

[GreatPumpkin]

"Fighting For Peace Is Like Screwing For Virginity"