Honey and flies and other favorite quotes

They say you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar but I don't want a bunch of flies.
Ruth

They say a picture is worth a thousand words but sometimes I need to hear the words.
Ruth

Some things are 'neater than sliced bread', but they didn't want a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Ruth

I want what I want when I want it and I want it now.
Ruth

Why would you want to be tickled with a feather when you can use the whole chicken?
Ruth

And in the end..the love you take..is equal to the love you make.
Unknown

Don't knock on death's door...ring the doorbell and run, he hates that.
Unknown

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain


Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman

I know why families were created, with all their imperfections. They
humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
Anais Nin

I see dumb people.
Unknown

If you don't remember us daughter, who will?
Unknown

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
Unknown

"Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must also have freedom, sunshine, and a little flower."
Hans Christian Anderson"

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with
fervour.
Benjamin Disraeli

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen R. Covey

No one is worth your tears, and the one person who is worth them, will never make you cry.
Unknown

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein

Nothin to do,but to do it.
Unknown

Show me what Thou wilt, Lord, and help me to remember and to understand.
Unknown

The nice thing about egotists is that they do not talk about everybody.
Unknown

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Ursula K. LeGuin

There are a thousand yesterdays, one today and maybe a tomorrow.
Red Skelton

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
William Shakespeare

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it - for boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Goethe

"Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life.
Mason Cooley

You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought of you, if you realized how seldom they do.
Unknown

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Unknown

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
Unknown

I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Unknown

You don't stop laughing because you grow old; You grow old because you stop laughing.
Unknown

It ain't pretty being easy.
Unknown

As you travel down the road of life remember...wherever you go,there you are.
Unknown

An eye for an eye eventually leaves everyone blind.
Unknown

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.
Maya Angelou

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
Albert Schweitzer

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
C.S. Lewis

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
Gerry Sikorski

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot

Choices are the hinges of destiny.
Edwin Markham

Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Abraham Lincoln


Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
Epicurus

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
St. Francis de Sales

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when dawn is still dark.
Unknown

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew 6:21

Friendship is a promise of future loyalty, loyalty no matter what comes. Promises are the bricks of life and trust is the mortar.
Stephen Carter, "The Emperor of Ocean Park"

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who forgives ends the quarrel.
African proverb

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

History never written is soon forgotten.
Unknown

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
Pablo Picasso

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
Sir Walter Raleigh

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
Carl Sandburg

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
Thomas Merton

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Eleanor Roosevelt