Al’s Quips and Quotes for April

  • “I haven’t the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.” (David Dedavis, quoted in Reader’s Digest)
  • “Harmony seldom makes a headline.” (Silas Bent, quoted in the Memphis Business Journal)
  • “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
  • “America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the Holy Scriptures.” (Woodrow Wilson)
  • “He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage—he won’t have many rivals.” (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, quoted in Forbes)
  • “Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value.” (Albert Einstein, quoted in The Arizona Republic)
  • “I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.” (Goldie Hawn, quoted in Reader’s Digest)
  • “If Darwin is right, there is no right.” (Ken Blue)
  • “Loneliness has its roots, not in the isolation of space, but in the alienation of people.” (Curtis Hutson, quoted in Punch Lines)
  • “It is not so much the greatness of our troubles as the littleness of our spirit which makes us complain.” (J. Hudson Taylor)
  • QUOTE OF THE MONTH: “I’m neither for nor against apathy.”