Weekly Words of Wisdom Archive
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Weekly words of wisdom.....
11/10 I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" --- Eve Merriam
Weekly words of wisdom....11/3...election 2008
Politicians are like diapers.
They both need changing regularly
and for the same reason.
10/27 I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. ---Charles Swartz
10/13-10/20 skipped a couple of weeks...
10/6 Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. --- Anon
9/29 "There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October." --- Nathaniel Hawthorne
9/22 “I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.” - Anon
9/15 "There was a great, dark mystery about it when I first came here from Oklahoma. I still get goose pimples just walking inside it. Now I think this is about the prettiest ball park I ever saw." - Mickey Mantle, 1976
9/8 Football is not a contact sport. Football is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. - Duffy Daugherty
9/2 "September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way." - Neil Diamond and Gilbert Becaud
8/25 Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. __John Dewey
8/18 "My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," my dad would reply, "we're raising boys." __Harmon Killebrew
8/11 “If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.” __Confusius
8/4 If August passes flowerless, and the frosts come, will I have learned to rejoice enough in the sober wonder of green healthy leaves? __Denise Levertov
7/28 The younger generation of rocket engineers is just beginning. They are of the new generation to which space travel is not going to be a dream of the future but an everyday job with everyday worries in which they will be engaged. ~~Willy Ley, 1951
7/21 "Protesting the New York Yacht Club is like complaining about your wife to your mother in law" ~~Capt. Angus Walters
7/14 "I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me." ~~Reggie Jackson
7/7 “I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.” ~~Charlie Brown
6/30 You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~~Erma Bombeck
6/23 I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. ___ George Carlin
6/16 Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ___ Will Rogers
6/9 “If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?” ___ Steven Wright
6/2 “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” ___ Al Bernstein
5/26 “Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” ___ Robert Henri
5/19 “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.” ___ Louisa May Alcott
5/12 A bike is just a unicycle with training wheels. ___ anon
5/5 For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly. — from Jonathan Livingston Seagull...
4/28 The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May. — Edwin Way Teale
4/21 "A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so." — Tom Watson
4/12 "In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours." — Mark Twain
4/7 I'd rather be riding my motorcycle thinking about God than sitting in church thinking about my motorcycle. — Anonymous 3/24 People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby
3/17A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. — Author Unkown
3/10 Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. — Author Unkown
3/3 March. In like a lion, out like a lamb. — Anon
2/25 Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest have thirty-one excepting February alone. That has twenty-eight days clear, and twenty-nine in each leap year. — Anon
2/18 "If the person in the next lane at the stoplight rolls up the window and locks the door, support their view of life by snarling at them." — Anon
2/11 There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.” — Tommy Lasorda
2/4 Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. — Richard Armour
1/28 If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. — Anne Bradstreet
1/21 "People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.” — Anton Chekhov
1/14 “Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories” — Anon
1/2 New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. — James Agate
1/7 “Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” — John Quincy Adams
12/24 While I was walking, I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy kept saying to the other guy, "Hold the sonuvabitch up. Hold it up for Chrissake!" It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree. — Holden Caufield, the Catcher in the Rye
12/17 This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone." — Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985), English novelist.
12/10 Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. — Author Unknown
12/03 “You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.” — Whitey Herzog
11/26 "The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature." — Andy Rooney
11/19 Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. — Edward Sanford Martin
11/12 In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. — Mark Twain
11/5 "A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be." — Unknown
10/29 "There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin." — Linus Van Pelt
10/22 Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. ----Helen Keller
10/15 Believe in yourself, your neighbors, your work, your ultimate attainment of more complete happiness. It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in Autumn. ----B.C Forbes
10/8 No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. ----Tommy Lasorda
10/1 "There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish." ----Unknown
9/24 The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ----Oliver Wendell Holmes
9/17 Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle. ----Author Unknown
9/10 Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. ----Robert Lynd
9/4 "Tough times don't last but tough people do." ---A.C. Green ----Charles G. Davis
8/27 "Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him." -Charles G. Davis ----Charles G. Davis
8/20 No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. ----Tommy Lasorda
8/13 “Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.” ----Percy Wells Cerutty
8/6 “The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.” ----Anne Morrow Lindbergh
7/30 "Tolerant, but not stupid! Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesn't mean you have to approve of it! ..."Tolerate" means you're just putting up with it! You tolerate a crying child sitting next to you on the airplane or, or you tolerate a bad cold. It can still piss you off!" ----Mr. Garrison, from South Park
7/23 A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken." ----James Dent
7/16 “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ----Mark Twain
7/8 Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ----Kin Hubbard
7/2 Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ----Abraham Lincoln
6/25 “In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.” ----Charlie Brown
6/18 In summer, the song sings itself. ----William Carlos Williams
6/11 "The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." -----Roger Bannister
6/4 Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. ~Author Unknown
5/29 What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~Gertrude Jekyll
5/21 “True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world” ~Francois de la Rochefoucauld
5/14 Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. ~Pam Brown
5/7 "I could never play in New York. The first time I came into a game there, I got into the bullpen car and they told me to lock the doors." --Mike Flanagan, Baltimore Orioles
4/30 You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. --Author Unknown
4/23 “Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have so much.'” --anon
4/16 “Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime” --Jimmy Cannon
4/09 "The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt." -Max Lerner
3/26 “Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” -Robert Schuller
3/19 And we never failed to fail, it was the easiest thing to do. - Crosby, Stills, and Nash....from Southern Cross
3/12 "Believe in yourself, know yourself, deny yourself, and be humble." - John Treacy's four principles of training prior to Los Angeles Marathon, 1984
3/5 "Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence."
.....Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2/26 If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ---Anne Bradstreet
2/19 Yesterday, I saw you standing there Your head was down, your eyes were red No comb had touched your hair I said get up, and let me see you smile We'll take a walk together Walk the road awhile ---Hootie & the Blowfish, Hold My Hand
2/10 "You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind." -Timothy Leary
2/5 We critical people are always being criticized! ".......Lucy Van Pelt, of Peanuts
1/29 Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." ....... Charlie Brown
1/22 She's been lookin like a queen in a sailors dream. And she don't always say what she really means. Sometimes I think its a shame, when I get feelin better when Im feelin no pain. .........Gordon Lightfoot, "Sundown"
1/15 Runners just do it - they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first. - ......Author Unknown
1/8 "A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child." - ......Kathy Davis
1/1 For whatever we lose, ( Like a you or a me), It's always ourselves we find in the sea". - .....E.E. Cummings
12/26 Lois lane please put me in your plan. Yeah, lois lane you don't need no super man. Come on downtown and stay with me tonight. I got a pocket full of kryptonite! - Spin Doctors
12/18 To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. ........... Steve Prefontaine
12/11 The ocean has always been a salve to my soul...the best thing for a cut or abrasion was to go swimming in salt water. Later down the road of life, I made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land". - Jimmy Buffett
12/4 I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. - John Paul Jones
11/27 “To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.” - Bill Rodgers
11/20 "Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible. " - Richard Bach
11/13"Don't do drugs kids. There is a time and place for everything. It's called college." - Chef from "South Park"
11/6You remember that thing we had about thirty years ago... called the Korean conflict? Yeah. Where we failed to achieve victory. How come we didn't cross the th parallel... and push those rice-eaters back to the Great Wall of China... and take it apart brick by brick... and nuke them back into the fuckin' stone age forever? How come? Tell me? Why? Say it! Say it! All right, I'll say it. 'Cause Truman was too much of a pussy wimp... to let MacArthur go in and blow out those commie bastards! Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. .....Sam Kinison and Rodney Dangerfield, Back to School
10/27 I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. ....Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes
10/23 I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 10
10/9 How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. ---George Washington Carver
10/2 "If I took steroids, I'd have gotten 5,000 damn hits." -- Pete Rose
9/10 Ohh-we-sha-sha-coo-coo-yeah, all the hippies sing together!.Prince, lyrics from "Let's Pretend We're Married"
9/10 If you make a mistake, get all tangled up, just tango on....Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman
8/28 In every person, even in such as appear most reckless, there is an inherent desire to attain balance....anon
8/21"Change is good for the sake of change"..... used to hear that from Uncle Larry all the time.
8/14 "One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about. ......... The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
8/7"Pain is weakness leaving the body"...contributed by Lauren Crowley
7/31 There is always an alternative. Whether or not we are aware of the choices confronting us depends upon whether we regard ourselves as defined by our vulnerability, or by our capacity to be reslient. ...Frank Furedi, professor, University of Kent
7/24 "Oh, there is a screen door there..." my buddy John Crowley knows this one.
7/17"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out." Anton Chekhov ..contributed by CS
7/10 Well, life is (too short), so love the one you got 'Cause you might get runover or you might get shot.Sublime, lyrics to "What I Got"
7/3 "Take pictures." .....Paul Z
6/26 You should play with Dr. Beeper and myself. I mean, he's been Club champion for three years running... ...and I'm no slouch, myself. Don't sell yourself short, Judge. You're a tremendous slouch. ....Chevy Chase from the movie Caddyshack
6/19 "You cannot lead someone to permanent change by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves."
6/7 You will find, peace of mind, If you look way down in your heart and soul. Don’t hesitate ‘cause the world seems cold. Stay young at heart ‘cause you’re never (never, never, ..) old at heart. from That’s the Way of the World Earth, Wind, and Fire
6/6/06 One does evil when one does no good. Anon
5/29"I don't sleep with no whore and I don't wake up with no whore. That's how I live with myself, Buddy. I don't know how you do." from the movie "Wall Street"
5/22 'I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience' - Martin Buber
5/15 Ha. City hands. You been counting money all your life. If you had a $5000 net and $2000 worth of fish in it, and along comes Mr. White, and makes it look like a kiddy scissors class has gone to work on it and made paper dolls. If you'd ever worked for a living, you'd know what that means. (Quint to Hooper, from the movie JAWS)
5/8 Life does not count by years. Some grow old between the rising and setting of the sun. (Anon)
5/1 "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in. We don't think we deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levin said it right. He said "'Love is the only rational act.'" (Morrie Schwartz, from the book Tuesday's with Morrie)
4/24 "Well," said Pooh, "what I like best -- " and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.(contributed by C.S.)
4/17 "My universe is in my underwear." from the book "Zen Sex"
4/10 It was geology, Darwin, and the doctrine of evolution, that first upset the faith of British men of science. If man was evolved by insensible gradations from lower forms of life, a number of things became very difficult to understand. At what moment in evolution did our ancestors acquire free will? At what stage in the long journey from the ameba did they begin to have immortal souls? When did they first become capable of the kinds of wickedness that would justify a benevolent Creator in sending them into eternal torment? Most people felt that such punishment would be hard on monkeys, in spite of their propensity for throwing coconuts at the heads of Europeans. But how about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis? Bertrand Russell (contributed by Cornelia Spiegel)
4/3 Where's my nipple ring ball? ....Anon
3/27 Luck is nothing more than using your given talents when the right opportunity presents itself. ...(contributed by George Eden)
3/16 If what you genuinely feel is different from your actions, you will constantly be at war with yourself."
Something to think about...
-- Often attributed to Lincoln, but perhaps Reverend William John Henry Boetcker (1873-1962) in a letter to his son's teacher: My son will have to learn, I know, that all men are not just, all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero; that for every selfish politician, there is a dedicated leader. Teach him that for every enemy there is a friend. It will take time, I know; but teach him if you can, that a dollar earned is of far more value than five found. Teach him to learn to lose and also to enjoy winning, steer him away from envy, if you can. Teach him the secret of quiet laughter. Let him learn early that bullies are easiest to lick. Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books…but also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hillside. In school, teach him it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat… Teach him to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tells him they are wrong. Teach him to be gentle with gentle people and tough with the tough. Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone is getting on the bandwagon. Teach him to listen to all men; but teach him also to filter all he hears on a screen of truth and take only the good that comes through. Teach him, if you can, how to laugh when he is sad. Teach him there is no shame in tears. Teach him to scoff at cynics and to beware of too much sweetness. Teach him to sell his brawn and brain to the highest bidders, but never to put a price on his heart and soul. Teach him to close his ears to a howling mob…and to stand and fight if he thinks he's right. Treat him gently; but do not cuddle him, because only the test of fire makes fine steel. Let him have the courage to be impatient, let him have the patience to be brave. Teach him always to have sublime faith in humankind. This is a big order, but see what you can do. He is such a fine little fellow my son!"
Beautifully stated: As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.