Miscellaneous Quotations
| "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire." - Francis Duc de la Rochefoucauld; contributed by destinee° |
| "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." - Author unknown; contributed by sweet lips |
| "After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him ...The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is better than the cover." - Author unknown |
| "Always drink upstream from the herd." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "Always treat people the way you want to be treated yourself." - Author unknown |
| "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Author unknown |
| "A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight" - Author unknown; contributed by Elle mae |
| "A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved" - Author unknown; contributed by Elle mae |
| "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." - Plato; contributed by destinee° |
| "A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one." - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; contributed by destinee° |
| "Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Author unknown |
| "Don't squat with your spurs on." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "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 |
| "Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say" - Author unknown |
| "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Paul Boese |
| "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." - William Arthur Ward |
| "Forgiveness is the final form of love." - Reinhold Niebuhr |
| "For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun." - Paul McCartney |
| "Friends are God's way of taking care of us." - Author unknown |
| "Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life." - Author unknown |
| "Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." - Ed Cunningham |
| "Friendship is like a fine wine; It gets better as it gets older" - Author unknown |
| "Friendship is one mind in two bodies." - Mencius |
| "Genealogical research is a journey, not a destination!" - Author unknown |
| "Genealogy is a lot like popcorn, once you get started, it's hard to stop!" - Author unknown |
| "Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have." - Author unknown |
| "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore |
| "Hold a true friend with both your hands." - Nigerian Proverb; contributed by sweet lips |
| "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby; contributed by destinee° |
| "If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd
be at the bottom to catch them." - Author unknown |
| "If it has tires or testicles, you're bound to have trouble with it" - Author unknown |
| "If no one likes you, make sure it's your own fault" - Author unknown; contributed by Elle mae |
| "If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - Winnie the Pooh |
| "If you're riding' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were
always yours. And if they don't, they never were." - Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"; contributed by destinee° |
| "If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." - Stone Temple Pilots |
| "If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton; contributed by destinee° |
| "I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." - William Butler Yeats |
| "In life, actions speak louder than words, but in love, the eyes do." - Author unknown |
| "I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay" - Dave Matthews Band |
| "It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "It is a funny thing about life...if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." - Somerset Maugham;contributed by Nymphe |
| "It is better to be hated for what one is, then to be loved for what one is not." - Andrew Gide; contributed by destinee° |
| "It takes both Rain and Sunshine to make a Rainbow." - Author unknown |
| "Laughter is, and always will be the best medicine" - Author unknown |
| "Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n putting' it back in." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "Live every day of your life to the fullest, because you never know when it may be your last." - Author unknown |
| "Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an
illusion." - Javan; contributed by destinee° |
| "Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." - Antoine de Saint Exupery; contributed by destinee° |
| "Love does not make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones |
| "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." - Robert H. Heinlein |
| "Love makes me write what shame forbids me speak." - Robert Herrick; contributed by destinee° |
| "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." - Henry Ford |
| "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." - Lee Iacocca; contributed by sweet lips |
| "Never kick a cow chip on a hot day." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." - Charlie Brown; contributed by destinee° |
| "One cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole." - Gandhi |
| "Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser |
| "Set your course by the stars and not by the lights of every passing ship." - Omar Bradley; contributed by ~opal*essence*{D} |
| "Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet." - Roberta Lieberman |
| "Take away love and our earth is a tomb." - Robert Browning (1812-1889); contributed by destinee° |
| "The fellow who said he was too old to learn new tricks probably always was." - Author unknown; contributed by Elle mae |
| "The future is no more uncertain than the present." - Walt Whitman; contributed by destinee° |
| "The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart." - Author unknown |
| "The most thoroughly wasted of days is that on which one has not laughed." - Chamfort |
| "The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to p*** on the electric fence for themselves." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend." - Katharine Butler Hathaway; contributed by destinee° |
| "There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." - Thomas Szasz |
| "The supreme pleasure is to promote the joy in others" - Author unknown; contributed by Elle mae |
| "Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey." - Author unknown |
| "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until
it be lost." - Charles Caleb Colton |
| "We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere" - Tim McGraw |
| "When in my heart I feel a tug, maybe it's an Angel hug." - Author unknown |
| "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle |
| "When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "When you're throwing' your weight around, be ready to have it thrown around by somebody else." - Will Rogers; contributed by Netty |
| "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present." - Author unknown |
