some of my all time favorite quotes

"Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things... that takes religion."

~Stephen Weinberg

Bobby ‘Tom-Tom’ Bly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He says you need to go out in the woods for three days to ‘find your wild man’. In Texas we get the same result in three hours. It’s called ‘beer’.

Joe Bob Briggs, the real founder of the Men’s Movement &

John Bloom’s alter ego

“We judge ourselves by our intentions, but others judge us by our behaviors.”
-Eric Harvey

"Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

- G.B. Shaw

"Don't be afraid that your life will end,

be afraid that it will never begin!”

~anonymous~

“You train bears and dogs, you educate human beings.”

~Stanley Marcus~

“Writing is like prostitution- first you do it for the love of it, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money”.

~Moliere, French playwright~

“I have not yet become all that I am”.

~Disney’s The Lion King~

“What others say and do is far less important that what you have to offer”.

~anonymous~

Favorite book plate-

Steal not this book, for it you do

The worth of it will follow you.

And when you die, the Lord will say,

“Where is that book you stole away?”

And if you say “I cannot tell”,

The Lord will cast you into Hell!”

~anonymous~

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices".
Albus Dumbledore,
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.

Max Lucado

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." --Bertrand Russell

No. Try not. Do…or do not. There is no try.

Yoda, Jedi Master

The Empire Strikes Back, 1980

=> There are teachers, and then there are educators. ;-)

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

~Hermann Goring

Be who you are and say what you feel, those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Dr. Seuss

"No matter where you go, there you are" -- (Buckaroo Banzai,The

Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension) Earl Mac Rauch

“How I hate the man who talks about the “brute creation”, with an ugly emphasis on brute….As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees, and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?”

W. N. P. Barbellion

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Unknown

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted: But to weigh and consider.

Francis Bacon.

Annelle: Miss Truvy, I promise that my personal tragedy will not interfere with my ability to do good hair.

From “Steel Magnolias”

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” Cree Indian Proverb

"When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to re-think your position."
~Mark Twain