I added these quirky tidbits to Kathy's Front Door so they pop up randomly -- something to make me smile. I hope they make you smile, too.
I laugh at you because you're all the same.
-- John Davis
Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of the heart.
-- Sai Baba
What a boring world it would be if we were all the same.
If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer,
a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon,
and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
-- Robert X. Cringely
The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed,
but never the one with whom you have wept.
-- Khalil Gibran
Don't try to change me. I will rebel.
Dont cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.
The way to a friend's house is never long.
I know God won't give me more than I can handle.
I just wish He didn't trust me so much.
-- Mother Theresa
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but still hold hands.
-- Alexander Perry
A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush.
-- Heywood
Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.
-- Arnold H Glasgo
Don't walk in front of me - I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me - I may not lead.
Walk beside me, and be my friend.
-- Albert Camus
All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person
is essential to your own.
-- Robert Heinlein
Love who you are and what you are and what you do.
Laugh at yourself and at life and nothing can touch you.
-- Louise Hay
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde
I dream, therefore I exist.
Sometimes you just have to agree to disagree, and move on.
Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
Don't explain.
Your friends don't expect it, and your enemies won't believe it.
Oh, to see life through the eyes of a child!
Love is friendship set on fire.
-- Laleela
A man isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else.
--Knox Manning
Many people will walk in and out or your life,
but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Live, laugh, love.
To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.
Fish, cut bait, or move out of the way.
A leopard can't change his spots.
-- Bible, Jeremiah
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice.
If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.
-- Cavett Robert
Measure twice, cut once.
-- Florio
Speak not of my debts unless you intend to pay them.
It is better to fail trying, than failing to try.
The only things we keep permanently are those we give away.
-- Waite Phillips
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
I believe in angels.
Friendship is like an empty glass. It fills with love & shares with others.
Handle it carefully! Once broken, it cannot be rejoined.
-- Shaijan P.T.
God Gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well, and let them lead the way.
I slept and dreamt that life was Joy.
I woke and saw that life was Duty.
I acted, and behold, Duty was Joy.
-- Rabinranath Tagore
Don't criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
One day at a time, one foot after the other. You are not alone.
Kisses are like tears. The only real ones are the ones you can't hold back.
A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight
and walks with you in the shadows.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
-- Thomas Campbell
Time, the subtle thief of youth.
-- John Milton
My grandfather told me there are two kinds of people:
those who do the work and those who take the credit.
He told me to be in the first group - there is less competition there.
-- Indira Gandhi
I've been on a calendar, but I have never been on time.
-- Marilyn Monroe
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
-- Baily
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
It's better to light a match, than curse the darkness.
There are many paths to the top of the mountain,
but the view is always the same.
Always a bride's maid, never a bride.
If you love something, let it go.
If it comes back to you it was truly meant to be.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Handsome is as handsome does.
-- Munday
A stitch in time saves nine.
-- John Davis
Normal Day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
-- Mary Jean Iron
To love and be loved is the greatest gift of all.
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert FIRST!
The only way to truly destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.
-- Gene Morra
Friends are like rainbows.
They brighten your life when you've been through a storm.
Don't ask a question if you're not prepared to accept the answer.
It's never where you're going....
It's where you are, when time runs out.
-- Christopher Beaucage
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple.
-- Elizabeth Lucas
Life is an ongoing project.
Let us unite and celebrate our differences.
Laugh until your cheeks hurt.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
It's just as far from your house to mine as it is from mine to yours.
Everyone's weird but thee and me, and sometimes I wonder about THEE!
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
-- Christian Bovee
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost
Don't sweat the small stuff (and it's all small stuff!)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow but a dream. Rejoice! And enjoy today.
All things are possible with time and money.
You have not lived until you have done something
for someone who can never repay you.
The best part of life is when your family becomes your friends,
and your friends become your family.
-- Danica Whitfield
Friends are those who treat you kindly behind your back.
Do a deed of kindness every day.
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.
-- Henry Ford
Red and yellow, black and white -- they are precious in His sight.
My child, you are my gift to the world.
We are all like one-winged angels.
It is only when we help each other that we can fly.
-- Luciano de Crescenzo
I've had many friends with whom I've shared my time,
but very few with whom I've shared my heart.
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy!
-- Anne Frank
There's no time like the present.
A watched pot never boils.
-- Gaskell
We are the culmination of every experience we've ever had -
The good, the bad, the happy, and the sad.
Do not go where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight.
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight.
Efficient management without effective leadership
is like straightening deck chairs on the Titantic.
-- Steven Covey
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
-- Livy
YOU CAN DO IT!
To have a friend you must be one.
If you want to test your memory,
try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
-- E. Joseph Cossman
What goes around comes around.
Life is like math. It's very simple.
It only gets complicated if you think about it too much.
-- Jonathan Boland
When I work, I work hard.
When I play, I play hard.
When I sit, I go to sleep!
Forgiving is easy. It's forgetting that's tough.
Show me a bully, and I'll show you a man with a small penis.
Life is a poem that doesn't always rhyme.
-- George A. Campo
When life closes a door, God opens a window.
Sometimes we have to clean the glass to know what it is.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right,
he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
-- Charles Wadsworth
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
Whatever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me.
-- Matthew 25:40
May you live all the days of your life.
-- Jonathan Swift
United we stand, divided we fall.
Lord, make my words sweet - I may have to eat them!
Friends are like stars... you don't always see them,
but you know they're always there.
-- Hulali Luta
An excuse is the truth stuffed with a lie.
Be the best that you can be.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-- Confucius
Don't build your outhouse too close to the house.
You can't deal with liars and thieves.
Let's put the fun back in dysfunctional.
Give your troubles to God. He stays up all night anyway.
Some days you're the bug. Some days you're the windshield.
-- Price Cobb
May the best of your yesterdays be the worst of your tomorrows.
Listen twice as much as you talk.
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
Make someone smile. Do it now!
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
-- Aesop
Dust is a protective coating for fine furnishings.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Theresa
Life is a journey, not a destination.
When you give a gift, give it away with no strings attached.
-- Betty Martin
I cannot make you feel special. I can only remind you that you are special.
In life you have to learn to take the good with the bad.
And then you learn to take the bad with a little scotch.
-- "Shoe"
(I found this taped to my office door in 1997, and it's been there ever since!)
Beter late than never.
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. It makes the ride worthwhile.
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
-- Robert Browning
Man blames fate for other accidents,
but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole-in-one!
-- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
-- Lorraine Hansberry
Experience is the best teacher.
-- Roger Ascham
Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu
instead of enjoying the banquet.
-- Oscar Wilde
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration.
-- Thomas Edison
There's no fool like an old fool.
-- Kennett
No news is good news.
Oil and water don't mix.
-- Joseph Jones
You can fool some of the people all the time,
all the people some of the time,
but you can't fool all the people all the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
-- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.
-- Shakespeare
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Anger gets us into trouble. Pride keeps us there.
If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Idle hands are the devil's playground.
-- Ray
If ain't broke, don't fix it.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
-- Ivan Turgenev
Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.
-- Elbert Hubbard
There's no defense like a good offense.
-- Brackenridge
A trip of one thousand miles begins with the first step.
Find a penny, pick it up. All day long you'll have good luck.