TidBits From All Over!
TidBits
From All Over!
* A mother is not a person to lean on but a person
to make leaning unnecessary. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879 - 1958)
** If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you
do well matters very much. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 - 1994) ***
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) **** Knowledge, ability, experience
are of little avail in reaching high success if courtesy be lacking. Courtesy
is the one passport that will be accepted without question in every land,
in every office, in every home, in every heart in the world. For nothing
commends itself so well as kindness; and courtesy is kindness. - George
D. Powers ***** The chief defect of a democracy is that the only political
party that knows how to run the country is always the one that's out of
office. ****** A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to
live for. ****** A smile is a language even a baby understands. ******
A smile costs nothing, but it creates much. It enriches those who receive
it without impoverishing those who give it. It happens in a flash, and
the memory of it may last forever. None are so rich that they can get along
without it, and none so poor that they cannot be richer for its benefits.
It creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in a business, and is
the countersign of friends. It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged,
sunshine to the sad, and nature's best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot
be begged, bought, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is worth
nothing to anyone until it is given away. In the course of the day, some
of your acquaintances may be too tired to give you a smile. Give them one
of yours. Nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give.
****** If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families,
old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee
of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and
the good will come back bigger than ever. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-
fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of
survival. These will come back. ******
There was a very cautious man
Who never laughed or played.
He never risked, he never tried,
He never sang or prayed.
And when he one day passed away,
His insurance was denied.
For since he never really lived,
They claimed he never died.
****** You can learn these things
from your dog: to love children, to drink plenty of water, to be a dependable
friend, to express pleasure when treated well, to guard faithfully the
interests of those who care for you, and to be faithful until death. ******
To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree
we are wealthy. - Peter McWilliams ****** "The reason dogs have so many
friends is because they wag their tails and not their tongues." ******
"When you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." ******
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid
of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work-and realizing
what is opportunity and what isn't. - Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989) ******
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do
a thing, do it with your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with
your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful,
and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without
enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) ****** Robert Stuberg:
The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity.
We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's
important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement.
We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace
of life continues to race along in the outside world, we
forget that we have the power to control our
lives regardless of what's going on outside. ****** Treat your friends
as you do your pictures; place them in the best light. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(1841 - 1919) ****** Nobody sees a flower, really - it is so small
- we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keefe (1887 - 1986) ****** A good marriage is the union of two
forgivers. - Ruth Bell Graham ****** A successful marriage requires
falling in love many times, always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin
****** Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going
to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding
you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will
never be the same again. - Og Mandino
(1923 - 1996) ****** Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is
merely what others think you are. - John Wooden ****** A good way to judge
people is by observing how they treat those who can do them absolutely
no good. - Unknown ****** If a man is called to be a streetsweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beetoven composed
music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that
all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great
streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King ****** You
either move toward something you love or away from something you fear.
The first expands. The second constricts. - Tom Crum, author of The Magic
of Conflict ****** Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door,
but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two
locks, and shut off the burglar alarm – it was gone! ****** He who knows
much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is
more intelligent. He who controls others may
be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ****** The
advice your child rejected is now being given to your grandchild. ****** To
profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. -> John Churton
Collins ****** Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must
pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration,
knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of
inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the
moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface
of your being." ****** Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary
burdens. If you have them, you have to takecare of them! There is great freedom
in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are
the happiest. -> Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981 ****** We act as
though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we
need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ->
Charles Kingsley (1819 – 1875)
****** Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding is the
third. -> Marge Piercy ****** Loyalty to a petrified opinion never
broke a chain or freed a human soul. -> Mark Twain ****** Fear knocked
at the door. - Faith answered. - No one was there. ****** To
me, faith is not just a noun but also a verb. -> Jimmy Carter ****** A
child does not need to be parented. He needs to be mothered and fathered. ->
Zan Thompson ****** When you were a kid, you never understood what your
parents were going through. Now you'd just like to know how they got through
it. ****** Human nature seems to endow people with the ability to size up
everybody but themselves. ****** My problem is I say what I'm thinking
before I think what I'm saying. -> Laurence J. Peter ****** There are
two kinds of people: - Those who stop to think and - Those who stop thinking.
****** The most ability is responsibility. Nothing happens until someone steps
forward and says, "You can count on me." -> John Maxwell
****** The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for
safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that
endangers him, not the storm without. -> Ralph Waldo Emerson ****** A
new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed
to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
-> Charlie Brower ****** If we had no winter, the spring would
not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would
not be so welcome. -> Anne Bradstreet 1664 ****** What
set [Thomas] Edison apart was that, with all his boundless exaggeration, he
conveyed the feeling that he would succeed. No matter what the obstacles, he
would pound away until they were demolished. -> Robert Conot ******
Some of us are like wheelbarrows –
only useful when pushed, and very easily upset. -> Jack
Herbert ****** It's not good to say "thank you" and not
mean it, but it's even worse to mean it and not say it. ****** Courage
is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -> Mark Twain
****** Courage...is nothing less than
the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to
affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is
meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always
tomorrow. -> Dorothy Thompson (1894 – 1961) ****** Learn
from the mistakes of others – you can never live long enough to make them all
yourself. ****** Only in America do
we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't
miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place. ->
Yakov Smirnoff ***** Friends are angels who
lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. ->
Unknown (submitted by Kim Holtzberb-Broach) ******
No matter who we are, no matter where we live, no
matter the color of our skin, we ARE one people. Let us never forget that words
DO hurt. As you greet people in the course of your day, be kind and share a
smile. Do not judge, for there is only ONE judge. Ask not for hatred, but rather
ask for love. -> Kim Holtzberg-Broach **** NEW>>
"We
must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the
extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children
smart." - H. L. Mencken
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Why do we call extortion "blackmail?"
Do you tip your mailman at Christmas? You don't have to. But would you want your
neighbor to "mistakenly" receive your Frederick's of Hollywood catalog?
Accidents happen. How about those "items" you ordered from that torrid website
that you shouldn't have been on anyway?
Actually, blackmail has nothing to do with the Post Office, which screws up as a
matter of principle. It comes from "mal," Old English for tribute or rent.
Warlords in ancient Scotland used to force farmers to pay mal as protection. Pay
it and you plant your crops in peace; don't pay it and we plant you and you rest
in peace. Blackmail took on its modern meaning of general extortion for money in
the 19th century.
Why black? The color was often used to suggest evil, but it may also have been
to distinguish the payment, made in crops or livestock, from what was called
"white" money -- coins and currency.
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