Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Idler's Quotes


There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry ... Yesterday and Tomorrow.   - Robert Jones Burdette

Once awhile I become motivated and energetic. I usually just sit down and watch them pass by. - Author Unknown

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.  - Mark Twain

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff.  Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.  - Robert Eliot

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Anderson

Friday, December 2, 2011

Quotes from Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang was a Chinese writer and philosopher (here is his wiki page), who wrote mostly in English. A few of Lin Yutang quotes:

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Good life consists of a Chinese cook, a Japanese wife and a French lover.

A speech is like a woman’s skirt, the shorter the better.

cross published on instead-of-wishing.



Monday, September 27, 2010

Random Quotes

"It is simply a fact of life today that if the young people can text, they will not talk."

Don Kirkham

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

If you do not like yourself, you cannot like other people

a quote from "Time Enough for Love" by Robert A. Heinlein

Here is another one:

Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.