Al’s Quotes & Quips for August

Summer is going by fast. Here it is August already. In a few weeks, it will be time to go back to school. Does that thought “bum you out?” Well, here are some quotes and quips that may temporarily distract you from the waning days of summer… ENJOY!

• “Fear is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.” (Renate Adler, quoted in The Associated Press)
• “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” (Leonardo da Vinci, quoted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• “The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.” (Franklin P. Jones, quoted in the Moncton, New Brunswick, Telegraph-Journal)
• “When the whole world is against you paranoia is just good sense.” (Johnny Fever)
• “An investment in knowledge pays the best return.” (Benjamin Franklin)
• “Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin.” (Victor Kiam)
• “The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.” (Andre Gide, quoted in The Jerusalem Post)
• “Freedom is the chance to be better than you are.”
• “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” (James Baldwin, quoted in the Huntington, W. Va., Herald-Dispatch)
• “Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.” (Christian Morgenstern, quoted in the Montreal Gazette)
• “Old age is like everything else… To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” (Theodore Roosevelt, quoted in the London Daily Mail)
• “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” (Pierre Corneille, quoted in the Associated Press)
• “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” (George Bernard Shaw, quoted in the Roanoke, VA., Times)
• “The amount of satisfaction you get from life largely depends on your own initiative, ingenuity, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.”
• “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you comfortable while you’re being miserable.”
• QUOTE OF THE MONTH by Angelina Jolie: “I’m very unaware of my public self. I don’t read anything written about me. I don’t look at magazines. I only watch the films and premieres if I have to. I still haven’t seen some of my films. If you become aware of a public self, you’re in danger of becoming a very artificial person.” (quoted in USA Today)

God bless you!