Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD May 30 2013

Thursday, May 30th, 2013

Jay Leno: “Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren’t bad people; they’re just acquaintances.”

QOTD May 29 2013

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

Confucius: “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

QOTD May 28 2013

Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

Vivian Greene: “Life’s not about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

QOTD May 28 2013

Monday, May 27th, 2013

Thomas a Kempis: “First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.”

QOTD May 26 2013

Sunday, May 26th, 2013

Marilyn Monroe: “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”

(some claim that Marilyn Monroe never said this…)

QOTD May 25 2013

Saturday, May 25th, 2013

Confucius: “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.”

QOTD May 24 2013

Friday, May 24th, 2013

Joan Rivers: “The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.”

QOTD May 23 2013

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

Laura Moncur: “You learn a lot about people when you play games with them.”

QOTD May 22 2013

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

Unknown: “After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.”

QOTD May 21 2013

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Confucius: “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”

QOTD May 20 2013

Monday, May 20th, 2013

Sidney J. Harris: “The time to relax is — when you don’t have time for it.”

QOTD May 19 2013

Sunday, May 19th, 2013

Sydney Smith: “Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.”

QOTD May 18 2013

Saturday, May 18th, 2013

Doris Lessing: “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.”

QOTD May 17 2013

Friday, May 17th, 2013

Marlene Dietrich: “It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.”

QOTD May 16 2013

Thursday, May 16th, 2013

Bob Edwards: “When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.”

QOTD May 15 2013

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

Robert Heinlein: “In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”

QOTD May 14 2013

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

Franklin P. Jones: “The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.”

QOTD May 13 2013

Monday, May 13th, 2013

W. Lee Grant: “Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.”

QOTD May 12 2013

Sunday, May 12th, 2013

Olive Schreiner: “We bear the world and we make it… There was never a great man who had not a great mother – it is hardly an exaggeration.”

QOTD May 11 2013

Saturday, May 11th, 2013

Segal’s Law: “A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.”