Favorite sayings about life? Please contribute.

[Eric Larsen]

"It's easier to actually care than it is to pretend to care." -- A salesman I once worked with.

"Be cool. But care." -- Dr. Buckaroo Banzai (a fictional sci-fi character).

"The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard." -- Katha Upanishads, translated by Somerset Maughm, in "The Razor's Edge." (My favorite book.)

"I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…" --Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in his book, "The Art of Happiness." (My next favorite book.)

[Craig Kershaw]

you can't polish a turd

[Eric Larsen]

you can't polish a turd

You can. They did it on Mythbusters.

[Harlan Coverdale]

Being vague is as annoying as that other thing. [Author Unknown]

[wells conklin]

THE THREE MOST COMMON MISTAKES OF LEADERS: OVER-PROMISING AND UNDER-PERFORMING.


"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it is yours. If not, hunt it down and kill it!"

[Pete Schupska]

1. End every drive in a kick.
2. Play after every storm.
3. It's not that it takes all kinds, just that we have them.
4. Same dog, different pile.

[Dino Makropoulos]

ancient philosophy.
stupidity grows on numbers.


today's reality.
nothing is wrong with our youth IF nothing is wrong with us.


Great thought.
Your greatness is your refusal to end.

[Kent Parker]

* In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire”
R.W. Emerson

* Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard

* In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

* You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
Frank Zappa

[Tom Winship]

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.. Unk.

[terry richards]

On being miffed.....

"Ya' got two choices. Get over it or die with it."

On being challenged.....

"Do not curse your burdens. Shoulder your burdens and rejoice in your strength." Thus spake Zarathustra

[Thomas Canfield]

"This to shall pass." It applies to both the good and bad and good situations - and I wish there were more of the good ones.

[Jason Roehl]

On an unpalatable situation:

"Accept it before it destroys you."

[Cary Falk]

There is no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people.

Light travels faster than sound. Sometimes a person appears to intelligent until you hear them speak.

It only hurts till the pain goes away

A pat on the back is a short distance from a kick in the a$$.

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

A lock just keeps honest people honest

He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.

It's always in the last place you look.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary

[keith ouellette]

If your in mexico have beer not water.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth unless you want to get bit.

If frogs had wings we wouldn't be talking about this because we'd be on another planet.

All you need to succeed in life is hard work, little sleep and more hard work or a rich parent.

[Bill Cunningham]

Life, is anything that dies when you stomp on it!

Life is what happens when you've made other plans.