What Is Your Favorite Quote?

Here is a quote I know some of us might remember, maybe not.
but I like it.

Eddie Cantor said, "You are only here for such a short visit. Don't forget to smell the flowers." I often wonder if they mixed this on up by saying, "take time to smell the roses."

Annie

Julie, YW!

This one crosses my thoughts often - have never known the origin -

"There but for the grace of God, go you and I."

Thanks, so much, for correcting my quote. Many years ago my Grandma gave me a beautiful gold praying hands Bible book mark which had that engraved on it. It has always been very special to me. Now here's one that was in a devotional that I copied and have kept. Hope you enjoy.

"Slow me down, Lord.
Ease the pounding of my heart
By the quieting of my mind.
Steady my harried pace
With a vision of the eternal reach of time.
Give me, Amidst the confusion of each day,
The calmness of the everlasting hills.
Break the tension of my nerves
With the soothing music
Of the singing streams
That live in my memory.
Help me to know
The magical restoring power of sleep,
Teach me the art
Of taking minute vacations
To look at a flower;
To chat with an old friend
Or to make a new one;
To pat a stray dog;
To watch the spider build a web,
To smile at a child;
Or to read a few lines from a good book.
Remind me each day
That the race is not always to the swift;
That there is more to life
Than increasing its speed.
Let me look upward
Into the branches of the towering oak
And know that it grew great and strong
Because it grew slowly and well.
Slow me down, Lord,
And inspire me to send my roots deep
Into the soil of life's enduring values
That I may grow toward the stars
Of my greater destiny."
By Wilferd Peterson

Don't put off until tomorrow, what you can do today.

A stitch in time saves nine.


Ben Franklin was a very wise man. :)

I love padre's quote it was my email signature for a long time and was on my page here it may still be I guess I should check. My current favorite is actually a small collection:

Work like you don't need the money.

Love like you've never been hurt.

Dance like nobody's watching.

Sing like nobody's listening.

Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

old_rose,
I like that! Heard plenty of times, just w/o the last line, which is what makes it!! Much better your way!

I think it was Mark Twain that said don't put off till tomorrow that which you can put off forever... ~ Suzi :)

The one on my computer:

It's good to be Queen...

What woud you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
-Dr. Robert Schuller

On my frig:

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need: the remainder is needed by others.
-St. Augustine

We make a living by what we get;
We make a live by what we give.
-Winston Churchill

Success isn't what you have.
It's what you have given away.
-Quote from unknown Indian Chief

Enjoy....Hap

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Go get it girl.
Talking to Tippy, my dog, not Bobbie my wife. She has a toy that I love to throw and play with her.

Bobbie's is, Go get it boy.
Talking to me. LOL

Spoken by one of Richard Nixon's presidential "competitors" ..

"If you stop telling lies about me, I'll stop telling the truth about you"

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

From Rabindranath Tagor - Fireflies. This book is full of beautiful thoughts! Another of my favorites from it is -
Let my love, like sunlight, surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

"Run slowly from a footless pig. It builds self-confidence in both of you."
© H. Griffin
"Old Man's Memories" ;>)

First things first, but not necessarily in that order.

Be good, be sincere and be simple. [My own]
Dinu

Great thread.....here is one I use when its appropriate...

"You can't unring a bell"

Deann

Deann,
That rings a bell! We must speak after thinking twice, shouldn't we? Because we can't unring the 'bell'!

Dinu

Beseach me not to leave thee,
or turn back from following after thee;
for wherever you l go, I will go;
for wherever you lodge, I will lodge;
Your people shall be my people'
And your God, my God.
where you die, I will die,
and there will I be buried.
The Lord do so to me, and more also,
If anything but death parts thee from me.
Ruth 1:16&17

I have loved this since I was around 15.

There is a song and one of the lines that tell the Powerful love of God the Father for us is:

"And he grew the tree, that he knew would be...The old rugged cross.


and my 4 year old GD when I buy her something Contained in a large squeal
"Ohhhhh Thank You,.... Nonnie" Now the 2 yr old squeals on the phone to everybody who will listen " It's Nonnie!" WOW to be that special is heavenly.

That is special....you are special.....

One that I have thought of recently, and I should think of more, is:


I am not who I THINK I am..

I am not who YOU THINK I am...

I am, who I THINK, YOU THINK, I am......


It takes several readings to understand, ....well it DID for Me.....but it is about as true as true can be.

Hap

Thank you, Hap You are very special too.

I love that and it is very true.

Took me a few times but I do love it.

Blessings,
Sandy †

Procrastination saves a lot of needless work.

sylvi74,

I can vouch for that!

Blessings,
Sandy ^8^

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
- Sir William Osler

"To err is human, to forgive divine."
~Alexander Pope (English Poet, 1688-1744)

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Mahatma Gandhi (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)


edited to add another quote that was relevant to the first



This message was edited Jul 19, 2005 2:30 PM

Haha and here is another:
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
- Franklin P. Adams

I just pulled this out of a chain letter passing a story about angels-
:...
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present!
Live and savor every moment... this is not a dress rehearsal!
...

Without reading back through this monster, surely someone has listed:
"Beauty is only skin deep... but ugly goes to the bone!"

Life is no craven thing, lurking coward-like in a corner. It is big, broad, splendid in opportunity. It is to be used, not cherished. It is to be spent, not saved. -- Alice Foote MacDougall

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming HOLY SMOKES - What a Ride!!!"

Author Unknown

"Everything happens for a reason.... even if we dont know what the reason is"

"God never gives you more than you can handle"

And a new favorite from a country song

"I've never seen a hearse with a luggage rack"

"I've never seen a hearse with a luggage rack"

LOL Woofy, My cousin always used to say "I've never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul"!
Pati

LOL Woofens -

Oh boy Suzi do I know that feeling.... I used to add "but I think he is pushing to see how much it takes to break me"

I kept repeating that, about not getting more than you can handle and everything happening for a reason when we were at Childrens last year.

Pati, LOL I like that one too. Although I do know a guy that was buried in a cement underground vault with his motorcycle. The permits and stuff were a nightmare, and he had died in a wreck on the bike. His friends and family spent almost $20,000 restoring the bike to the condition it was in before the wreck before they buried it. That is devotion

Janis

hmmm I choose to think of that as an incredible waste of money, but it was his and his family/friends money. Hopefully he didn't leave a couple kids or wife that needed the money! ~ Suzi ♥

Oh my goodness, Woofy. You sure woke up an old memory! In NC there were twin boys that weighed over 300 lbs each. They had special motorcycles built...and they were huge! When one of the boys died they had his full sized motorcycle sculptured in stone and mounted on top of his head stone. It must have cost a pretty penny!!
Pati

No, Suzi, he was young, just barely out of his teens, still lived at home, worked and paid all his bills, his bike was his pride and joy. He started working and saving for that bike as soon as he was able. I think it was in their minds more in honor of him than anything. The last thing they could do for him, was fix his baby (the bike), and let him be with it always. I grew up with and I am still a part of the "biker" community... so I sort of understand why they did it. I thought at the time and still do believe that the money would have been better going ot ABATE or somewhere like htat so that it could have helped promote motorcycle safety, and trying to teach the dangers of drinking and driving on a bike. For some reason, people don't seem to realize that D&D is just as bad if not worse than D&D in a car.

Ok, I"ll quit now, sorry if I sounded like I was on a soapbox :)

Janis

Pati, I vaguely remember reading something about that years ago!! That would be a site to see wouldn't it?

Janis

Janis,
D&D is terrible and 10x worse on a bike, no protection from self +/or others, whatsoever! At 49 + w/ my knee probs have had and the back probs still have... wouldn't be able to safely handle a bike any more. Almost told them to take it off my license last time, but thought perhaps I'll keep the license; maybe I'll get a trike later on... ~ Suzi ♥

Don't have it taken off you're liscense... you'll regret it. One of my best friends is looking for a trike right now, he used to have Barney purple one LOL

After I injured my back in 95 in a car wreck, it is just too painful for me to ride anymore. Just distances are ok, but anything more and I'm in tears. Breaks my heart... my earliest memory is riding my sted dad's bike home from the babysitters.. I was 3 :)

Janis
Sorry for the thread hi-jack*

Here's a couple of mine...


"The trouble with a kitten is eventually it becomes a cat!" (so true - can't remember the author).

"I live in my own little world - but it's okay - they know me here!"

From somewhere: If you are calm when all those about you are in a state of panic, perhaps there is something you don't understand about the situation.

If you are at the end of your rope...make a knot and hang ON!

My kids hear this one often: If you don't work.. you don't eat

good one balvenie lol

Here is one I read today:

This life is a test, only a test
Had this been a real life,
someone would have told me where to go and what to do!