Quotes I Found

Promises to the Moon

2011-07-28T13:25:00.000-04:00

“Promises are like the full moon. If they are not kept at once, they diminish day by day.” - German Proverb

Happiness - Individual Responsibility - Entitlement

2011-07-07T21:55:00.000-04:00

"The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin

Impulse/Addiction

2011-04-10T22:50:00.000-04:00

Don't give up what you want most for what you want now.
-Unknown

Miracles Take Hard Work

2011-03-03T11:11:00.000-05:00

"Miracles take hard work." - Special Agent Jethro Gibbs, from the TV show NCIS

What you do today, you have to sleep with tonight

2010-11-27T00:38:00.002-05:00

What you do [or say] today, you have to sleep with tonight. - Country Song

Hill of Beans

2010-11-27T00:37:00.001-05:00

The problems of two people may not amount to a hill of beans, but this is our hill and these are our beans. - From the movie Naked Gun

Worry is the interest paid in advance on a debt you may never owe.

2010-11-27T00:36:00.002-05:00

Worry is the interest paid in advance on a debt you may never owe. - Unknown

Get It Done

2010-11-27T00:35:00.000-05:00

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind, I'll never die. - Unknown

Lonely

2010-11-27T00:32:00.000-05:00

Just because I'm not alone doesn't mean that I'm not lonely. - Unknown

Middle of the Road

2010-11-27T00:28:00.002-05:00

If you take the middle of the road position you can get run over from both ways.- Unknown

Neither the Time Nor the Place

2010-11-27T00:27:00.000-05:00

There is a time and a place to touch a girl and constantly is neither the time nor the place. - Brandon Pendell

Dead or Alive

2010-11-27T00:26:00.000-05:00

"Either I'm dead and I haven't done everything that I want to or I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do." - They Might Be Giants

There's No Education in the Second Kick of a Mule

2010-11-27T00:14:00.001-05:00

"There's no education in the second kick of a mule." - Fritz Hollings, song title

I Don't Know Anything About Music

2010-11-27T00:10:00.000-05:00

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind

2010-11-27T00:08:00.000-05:00

A waist is a terrible thing to mind. - Unknown

Running the Country

2010-11-27T00:06:00.002-05:00

Too bad the only people who know how to run this country are too busy driving cabs and cutting hair. - George Burns

Good Credit

2010-11-27T00:05:00.000-05:00

There is no limit to the amount of good a man can do, if he doesn't care who gets the credit. - Unknown

Shared Candles

2010-11-27T00:03:00.000-05:00

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle. - Unknown

Why there is never enough time?

2010-11-26T23:55:00.002-05:00

If you can't find time to do it right, how will you find time to do it over? - Unknown

Christian Cars

2010-11-26T23:54:00.000-05:00

Sitting in a church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Impossible to Learn

2010-11-26T23:49:00.000-05:00

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus, (c. 55 - c. 135 AD), Greek Stoic philosopher

Science - Finagle's Creed and Laws

2010-11-26T23:37:00.000-05:00

I was going through some notes from years ago and I found Finagle's Creed. I do not know who this Finagle is or if it is just a made up name to be funny. In order to find out about this I searched the internet and found that in addition to the Creed there are some laws. Below is the creed and the laws that struck me.

Finagle's Creed
Science is Truth. Don't be misled by fact.

Finagle's First Law
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.

Finagle's Second Law
No matter what result is anticipated, there will always be someone eager to a) misinterpret it, b) fake it, or c) believe it happened according to his own pet theory.

Why We Talk

2010-08-23T23:26:00.000-04:00

“Men talk for information. Women talk for interaction.”

- Deborah Tannen, “You Just Don't Understand”, New York: Ballantine Publishers, 1990, 81

Wasting the Labors of the People

2010-08-20T10:46:00.000-04:00

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
-Thomas Jefferson, "Jeffersonian Cyclopedia", p271

Take From Those Willing to Work and Give to Those Who Are Not

2010-08-20T10:40:00.001-04:00

The democracy will cease to exist
when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
- Attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but has never been found in any of his writings. First appeared in print in 1986. (See http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/The_democracy_will_cease_to_exist)

Immortality is the Best

2010-05-13T12:04:00.002-04:00

Immortality is to die for.
-Brook Niebauer

I Want to be Ambidextrous Really Bad

2010-05-13T12:03:00.000-04:00

I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous.
-Jennifer Cordell via Facebook

No Reincarnation

2010-05-13T12:00:00.000-04:00

I don't really believe in reincarnation like I did in my previous life.
-Naomi Leigh Miller Phillips via Facebook

Problems of Our Own Making

2010-05-07T09:35:00.000-04:00

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key
"Already Gone", The Eagles

Long Hunger

2010-05-04T08:14:00.002-04:00

“Man who sit with legs crossed and mouth open waiting for roast duck to fly in have long hunger.”
-Old Chinese Saying

How to Get It Done

2010-04-30T23:12:00.000-04:00

“throwing a fit and kicking and screaming wudn’t goin’ to help get my puzzle done.”
Cord McCoy (Amazing Race contestant)

You Might as Well Have a Phone

2010-04-30T23:06:00.000-04:00

"Well you'd better get one. As long as you've got the ringing, you might as well have a phone, right?"
Maxwell Smart (Character on Get Smart TV series)

Live Up to Your Privilege

2010-03-16T09:29:00.002-04:00

"If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates."

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, comp. Joseph Fielding Smith (1977), 226.

Excuses

2010-01-12T14:26:00.001-05:00

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin

Big Government

2009-11-23T10:01:00.000-05:00

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
Thomas Jefferson

Debt or Freedom and Happiness

2009-11-02T09:48:00.000-05:00

Never before have so many had so much stuff and so little freedom. Debt is forcing us to work more and more, stealing from us our precious time as well as our happiness. - The 5 Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me - Preface

Hoofinmouth Disease

2009-09-06T15:39:00.000-04:00

"A closed mouth gathers no feet."

-Unknown

Fiercely Loyal

2009-09-06T14:17:00.001-04:00

“Be fiercely loyal one to another” (President Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, Feb. 1999, 4)

I Am Only One, But I Am One

2009-08-16T16:51:00.002-04:00

I am only one. But I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. - Edward Everett Hale

The Covenant of the Founding Fathers

2009-04-02T17:25:00.000-04:00

"And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." (Declaration of Independence)

Deep Thinking

2009-03-14T00:22:00.000-04:00

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices." - William James

What Message Are You Sending?

2008-12-20T13:49:00.001-05:00

My life is my message.
-Gandhi

Getting More Done

2008-12-16T09:47:00.000-05:00

If everyone else did a little bit less, it would be just like me doing a little bit more.
J.G. Taylor

Anger Men

2008-11-12T09:43:00.001-05:00

"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth." -Chuck Norris

That's Just How Donkeys Are

2008-10-20T12:33:00.002-04:00

Never make fun of a donkey's ears. -Unknown

Pig Farmers and Car Talk

2008-10-02T11:43:00.000-04:00

"Pig farmers say, 'imagine working around that all day' every time they hear us." - Car Talk

Religion and Science

2008-09-28T20:35:00.003-04:00

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ("Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941)

Speaking Your Mind in the Face of Opposition

2008-09-24T10:15:00.000-04:00

The very man who has argued you down,will sometimes be found,years later,to have been influenced by what you said. - C.S.Lewis

Love is What You Go Through Together

2008-03-09T16:56:00.003-04:00

Love is What You Go Through Together
-James Thurber (“Thurber,” Life, Mar. 14, 1960, 108.)

Don't Do Everything, But Do Something

2008-01-11T07:10:00.000-05:00

We can’t do everything for everyone
everywhere, but we can do something for
someone somewhere.
Elder Richard L. Evans (1906–71) - Apostle
Quoted by Thomas S. Monson in the January 2008 issues of the Ensign magazine.

Forgiveness

2007-10-03T15:33:00.000-04:00

To be wronged or robbed is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
-Confucius

The Pursuit of Easy Makes Men Weak

2007-05-21T10:51:00.000-04:00

Strength and struggle go together. The supreme reward of struggle is strength. Life is a battle and the greatest joy is to overcome. The pursuit of easy things makes men weak.
-Ralph Parlette

Perfection

2007-05-21T06:30:00.000-04:00

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man that never does anything.
-Unknown

Do Your Best

2007-05-18T10:36:00.000-04:00

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
-Unknown

Balance

2007-05-16T06:50:00.000-04:00

There's more to balance than not falling over.
-Unknown

Rationalizing vs Repenting

2007-05-14T16:06:00.000-04:00

Rationalizing is the bringing of ideals down to the level of one's conduct.
Repenting is the bringing of one's conduct up to the level of his ideals.
-Unknown

Live As You Wish

2007-04-18T12:36:00.000-04:00

It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
- Mother Teresa

The Greatest Fault

2007-01-28T18:06:00.000-05:00

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

- Thomas Carlyle

Ruled by Tyrants

2006-09-24T13:11:00.000-04:00

Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
--William Penn

Prepared To Enter

2006-09-03T15:58:00.000-04:00

“I believe the Lord can do anything he sets his mind to do. But I can see no good reason why the Lord would open doors that we are not prepared to enter”
Spencer W. Kimball

Teenage Reward

2006-08-27T15:01:00.000-04:00

Grandchildren are your reward for not killing your teenager.
-Colleen Harper (Loving and Nurturing Teenagers on 4/5/1999 at the Family Expo)

America at the Crossroads

2006-08-13T11:02:00.000-04:00

I love America. I love the people in this beloved land as well as our Father’s children in all other countries. The Lord decreed that America is “a land choice above all other lands” to those who keep his commandments. We remain here in this land as long as we remain in God’s divine favor...
Ezra Taft Benson

Prayer

2006-08-02T18:36:00.000-04:00

Pray to God as if everything depended on Him; work as if everything depended on you.
-Author Unknown

There is No Education in the Second Kick of a Mule

2006-07-02T00:06:00.000-04:00

There is no education in the second kick of a mule.

--Author Unknown

You must earn a living.

2006-05-23T07:00:00.000-04:00

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Roses in December

2006-05-10T06:09:00.000-04:00

"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. "
James Barrie - Scottish poet