Al’s Quotes & Quips – April 2010
I hope you are enjoying the Spring weather! I love spring. It is bursting with NEW LIFE! Here are this month’s quotes and quips to give you something to think about and encourage you…
- Winston Churchill said, “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
- “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” (Hippolyte Taine)
- “It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What’s tough is being good every day.” (Willie Mays, quoted in the Westcoast Fitness Monthly Newsletter)
- “What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that’s another matter.” (Peter F. Drucker)
- “Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.” (Amos Bronson Alcott, quoted in Forbes.com)
- “Money isn’t everything, but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.” (J.P. Getty, quoted in Reader’s Digest)
- “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts.”
- “Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be… Just be one!” (Marcus Aurelius, quoted in The New Republic)
- “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” (Flannery O’Connor)
- “Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.” (Oscar Ameringer, quoted in the London Independent)
- “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” (Kin Hubbard, quoted in Reader’s Digest)
- “In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.” (Abraham Lincoln, quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer)
- “Many people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” (Robert Anthony)
- “Give to a pig when it grunts and give to a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a spoiled child.” (Danish proverb)
Have a Happy Easter this Sunday! God bless you.
