Saying of the Week, and other Famous Quotes

[Mustanger]

"The things that we love tell us what we are." - Saint Thomas Aquinas

 

[p51]

Eureka

"Give me a place to stand and I can move the world"
- Archimedes

 

[Midnight Special]

The late Dr. Adrian Rogers (1931 to 2005) offered the following
observation several years ago and it bears poignant significance
today:

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the rich
out of freedom. What one person receives without working for,
another person must work without receiving. The government
cannot give to anybody anything the government does not first
take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that
they do not have to work because the the other half is going to take
care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no
good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work
for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

You cannot multiply the wealth by dividing it."

 

[CougarCJ]

Along the same lines

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.

When the Government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

 

[Mustanger]

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” - Abraham Lincoln

 

[Mustanger]

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” - Michelangelo

 

[p51]

"We have met the enemy and he is ours" (War of 1812)
- Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry

"We have met the enemy and he is us" (2009?)
- Pogo

 

[CougarCJ]

"We have met the enemy and he is ours" (War of 1812)
- Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry

"We have met the enemy and he is us" (2009?)
- Pogo

1970
I was curious myself, this came up a couple of days ago here at home.
http://www.igopogo.com/we_have_met.htm

 

[hotrodgrany]

Happinesss can't be found when you seek it for your self.
But when you give it to others, it will find its way back to you.
That's the mystery of happiness, it grows when shared.

 

[Mustanger]

“The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.” - Roy Moody

 

[Mustanger]

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." – George Washington

 

[p51]

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries."
- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

 

[p51]

Oracle of Omaha-isms

"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"
- Virgil (referring to the Trojan Horse in the Aeneid)
"Beware of Geeks bearing formulas"
- Buffet (BH letter to shareholders)

“You only have to have your head under water for more than 10 minutes once in your life for it all to be over” (alluding to why cash =~ oxygen in today’s market)
- Buffet

 

[Mustanger]

“Any nation that does not honor its heroes, will not long endure.” - Abraham Lincoln

 

[Mustanger]

"Remember to always share your cheese" - Ed "Big Daddy" Roth

 

[Mustanger]

“Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.” - Henry Ford

 

[p51]

"The present is never our goal; the past and present are our means, the future alone is our goal."
- Blaise Pascal, mathematician/philosopher

 

[hotrodgrany]

A mother's patience is like a tube of toothpaste
it's never quite all gone.

An ounce of motherhood is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish Proverb)

People too often foget each other
but everyone remembers Mother.

The happiest people are those who
are too busy to notice whether they
are in control or not.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow. (Ronald E. Osborn)

 

[p51]

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
- Senator Barry Goldwater

 

[Mustanger]

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford