Chick Stewart
In a New Mexico cemetery:
"Here Lies John Yeast. Pardon Me for Not Rising."
The epitaph of John Yeast
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
Anne S. Swetchine
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Dolores Ibárruri `La Pasionaria'
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a façade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
James Gleick
It's like being caught between a dog and a fire hydrant.
Robin Campaniano
Hawaii Insurance Commissioner 1991
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833-1870
Most of us use mighty weak thread when we mend our ways.
Arnold Glasow
Never be a pioneer. It's the Early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
Saki (H.H. Monro) 1870-1916
Nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see. On the contrary, everything is sacred.
Teilhard de Chardin
People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
John Newbern
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis 1878-1937
So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855-1919
Stretch a hand to one unfriended
And thy loneliness is ended.
John Oxenham
Talent
Use what talent
You possess;
The woods would
Be very silent if
No birds sang there
Except those that
Sang best.
Henry Van Dyke 1852-1933
That we spent, we had;
That we gave, we have;
That we left, we lost.
Epitaph of the Earl of Devonshire
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
William Cowper 1731-1800
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.
Gen. Joe Stilwell 1883-1946
The one Moon reflects itself wherever there is a sheet of water,
And all the moons in the waters are embraced within the one Moon.
Yung-chia Ta-shih
The Three Strings
Ole Bull, the Norwegian violinist, was giving a concert one evening in the Opera House in Paris. During his performance the A string on his violin broke. He calmly shifted the composition to another key and finished it on three strings. Sometimes a string on our life's violin breaks. Instead of giving up or giving in to despair, we must keep on playing on three strings.
"Today's Thought" by Rev. Paul Osumi
Honolulu Advertiser Sept. 13, 1980
The whole process of discrimination is the elimination of all limitations; when that is attained, the process itself is to be eliminated, as a man who lights the fire throws away the match.
Shri Patanjali
The world is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole 1717-1797
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life.
John Constable 1776-1837
There was an old owl who liv'd in an oak
The more he heard, the less he spoke;
The less he spoke, the more he heard
O, if men were all like that wise bird!
Punch 1875
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Samuel Butler 1835-1902
There's many a slip `twixt the cup and the lip
R. B. Barham 1840
Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
Austin Dodson 1840-1921
`Twixt the optimist and pessimist
The difference is droll:
The optimist sees the doughnut,
But the pessimist sees the hole.
McLandburgh Wilson
Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees mud, and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge 1849-1923
We are not what we are because the world is what it is, but the other way around. The world is what it is because we are what we are.
Martin Gardner
What is mind? No matter
What is matter? Never mind.
Thomas Hewitt Key 1855
What will Mrs. Grundy say? What will Mrs. Grundy think?
Thomas Morton:
Speed the Plow 1798
When somebody tells you that nothing is impossible, ask them to dribble a football.
Bob Steele
Who in his pocket hath no money,
In his mouth he must have honey.
Rowland Watkins
Without a hurt, the heart is hollow.
Broadway musical, "The Fantasticks" 1960
Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
Dr. Edward Podolsky
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Pruden
You don't change barrels while going over Niagara Falls.
Al Smith 1873-1944
You never miss the water till the well runs dry.
Rowland Howard
You will and you won't --
You'll be damned if you do,
And you'll be damned if you don't.
Lorenzo Dow 1777-1834