Quotes November 18, 2021

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.” Lemony Snicket
 
 
 
 
“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”
Carl Friedrich Gauss
 
 
 
 
“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
What lies before you and what lies behind you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you.
Sandra Gallagher – CEO and Co-Founder at Proctor Gallagher Institute
 
 
 
 
A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.
Paulo Coelho
 
 
 
 
I resent the slandering of my good name – especially when I have so many bad ones available.
John Alejandro King
 
 
 
 
If the words don’t add up ….? It’s because the truth wasn’t included in the equation… ?
QUEENS THRONE
 
 
 
 
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Dave Barry
 
 
 
 
Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
Whattaya mean you ain’t no criminal lawyer? You a lawyer right? And you in here, that means you also a criminal.
Kenneth Eade, Unreasonable Force
 
 
 
 
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Anatole France
 
 
 
 
What the heck is a king? I’m a cog in the wheel.
Chuck Berry
 
 
 
 
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
L.M. Montgomery
 
 
 
 
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Albert Camus
 
 
 
 
“Don’t cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won’t let you see the stars.”
Violeta Parra
 
 
 
 
There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man’s words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, ‘The sky is blue,’ and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, ‘No, the sky is light blue,’ then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.
Criss Jami
 
 
 
 
The decision is made in advance and, when well-tempered with discipline, will lead to the desired results.
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