Al’s Quotes and Quips for September
- “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” (Tom Clancy, quoted in GCFL.net)
- “What we know is a drop; what we don’t know is an ocean.” (Isaac Newton, quoted in The Toronto Sun)
- “Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, quoted in Reader’s Digest)
- “Happiness is a choice, not an achievement. Nothing will make you happy until you decide to be happy.” (Ralph Marston)
- “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” (Mark Twain)
- “They who are of the opinion that money will do everything may very well be suspected to do everything for money.” (George Savile, quoted in The Boston Globe)
- “Only the mediocre are always at their best.” (Jean Giraudoux, quoted in the Weekly Economic Update)
- “If you don’t stick to your values when they’re being tested, they’re not values—They’re hobbies.” (Jon Stewart, quoted in The Cape Cod Times)
- “No other single force is causing as much measurable hardship in this country as the collapse of marriage.” (quoted in Time Life, July 02, 2009)
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: When an atheist called him a “moron” for believing in God, Dr. Ben Carson responded, “I believe I came from God, and you believe you came from a monkey,” he told the individual, “and you’ve convinced me you’re right.”
