Al’s Quotes and Quips for October

Al’s Quotes and Quips for October

Al’s Quotes and Quips for October

  • “What looks like tomorrow’s problem is rarely the real problem when tomorrow rolls around.” (James Fallows, quoted in TheMotleyFool.com)
  • “Worry is like a rocking chair. You expend a lot of energy, but never get anywhere.”
  • “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” (Thomas Merton, quoted in No Man Is An Island)
  • “Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” (Thomas Edison, quoted in the Los Angeles Times)
  • “Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.” (Otto von Bismarck, quoted in Forbes.com)
  • “Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.” (Benjamin Disraeli, quoted in SportsIllustrated.com)
  • “It is cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood… all the work into middle age… and all the regrets into old age.” (Margaret Mead, quoted in the Syracuse, N.Y. Post-Standard)
  • “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” (John Stuart Mill, quoted in The Sword of the Lord)
  • “Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you would never invite into your home.” (David Frost, quoted in The Washington Post)
  • “A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.” (D.L. Moody)
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