"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone."
[Via Quotes of the Day]
Favorite Quotes
RE: Mark Twain
"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."
[Via Quotes of the Day]
William James. “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” [Quotes of the Day]
Yogi Berra. “This is like deja vu all over again.” [Quotes of the Day]
Two of my favorite quotes!
To my wife…the perfectionist
Samuel McChord Crothers. “Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.” [Quotes of the Day]
This lesson I learned early in life and learned to embrace it. It makes life so interesting and prepares you to allow God into your life.
A Quote to Remember on Father's Day
Charles Wadsworth. “By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.” [Quotes of the Day]
Benjamin Franklin. “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” [Quotes of the Day]
Thomas A. Edison. “We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.” [Quotes of the Day]
Dorothy Nevill. “The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” [Quotes of the Day]
Presidential Quote For The Week
Portrait courtesy of the White House.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. There is no such thing as a no-man’s land between honesty and dishonesty. Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitiveness to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invasion by foreign armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.
–Herbert Hoover
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. “First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.” [Quotes of the Day]