Knowledge is power.
There is no knowledge that isn't power.
There's no substitution for experience.
Don't take life too seriously, it's not permanent.
One thing you can't recycle is time.
You can never find lost time.
Time is the greatest teacher, unfornately it kills all it's students.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Caution is not cowardly-carelessness is not courage.
One who lacks the courage to start has already finished.
If the going gets easy, you may be going downhill.
Train hard win easy.
A shortcut in life leads to a longer way around than the original path.
Luck is what happens when preperation meets oportunity.
Luck counts, but don't count on it.
Rained on ground hardens.(Adversity builds character.)
When you throw mud you lose ground.
Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.
Some people get eye strain looking for trouble.
Bluntness is good..it intimidates the weak and gauges the strong.
Delay is the antidote for anger.
He who forgives ends the quarrel.
Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting it to
kill someone else.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way.
Suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary problem.
Growing old is mandatory, growing wise is an option.
Live in the present, for yesterday is already gone and tomorrow may never come.
Turn the other cheek if it gets slapped, if that cheek gets slapped too don't turn the cheek again to have the same one slapped again .
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Nobody plans to fail, they just fail to plan.
Success comes in cans. Failure comes in cant's.
Success is more attitude than aptitude.
The road to success is always under construction.
Failure is the path of least persistence.
It's not the load that breaks you, it's the way you carry it.
Patience carries a lot of weight.
A turtle makes progress by sticking his neck out.
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime.
Stretching the truth always ruins it.
The worst lie is lieing to yourself.
One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
Make your words short and sweet, you may have to eat them.
Good intentions are not good enough, we are measured by
our actions.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
May God defend me from my friends I can defend mySelf from
my enemies.
Make friends before you need them.
The best vitamin for making friends, B1.
If you tell the truth, sooner or later somebody's going to find out.
Tact is the ability to see others as they wish to be seen.
Patience is counting down without blasting off.
Triumpth is just "umpth" added to try.
Two thirds of promotion is motion.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just that little "extra".
Live as you wish your kids would.
Children need more models than critics.
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses more; He who loses faith, loses all.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Remember, two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights make a left.
Sex is like a game of bridge...If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand!
The word of the day is legs. Let's go to your bedroom and
spread the word.
Peace to all and to all a great piece.
You're not very tough, but you are a real man's man.
Life is like animal porn, it's not for everyone.
If you've gone thru half your life and it sucks, chances are the rest is
gonna suck too. It's not going to get better at the end.
We have the best country in the world, but that isn't saying much, that's
like saying you're the prettiest waitress at Denny's. You still got alot of
work to do.
The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.
Misery loves company.
God gives every bird it's food, but he does not throw it into it's nest.
God helps those who help themselves. The government helps
those who don't.
In God we trust, everyone else pays cash.
Money is a good servant but a cruel master.
Jesus loves you, everyone else thinks you're an a-hole.
If you have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if you have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, you are nothing.
If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you then it really
loves you. If it doesn't come back to you then hunt it down and kill it.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid
of a rat.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse
gets the cheese.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Ignore your health long enough and it will go away.
You can't have your bread and loaf too.
It is better to be ignorant than ignorant of your ignorance.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Knowing and not doing are equal to not knowing at all.
Cheap things are of no value, valuable things are not cheap?
Fame sometimes creates something out of nothing.
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Be direct, usually one can accompish more that way.
Our first and last love...is self love.
Do unto others as others would do unto you, but do it first.
Seek not to know the answers, but to understand the questions.
A good neighbor is one who neither looks down on you nor keeps up with you.
You can never raise your reputation by lowering others.
A closed mind is like a closed parachute, unopened neither one does you any good.
There once was a man who was looking for the perfect woman, when he finally found her he found out she was looking for the perfect man.
Perfection is subtraction not addition.
All of the animals except man know that the principal buisness of life is to enjoy it.
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
If the eye never sleeps, all dreams will naturally cease. If the mind makes no discriminations, the ten thousand things are as they are, of a single essence.
A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back
to its original dimensions.
THE ABC'S OF FRIENDSHIP
A lways be honest, would you want THEM to lie to you?
B e there when they need you, or you may wind up alone.
C heer them on, we all need encouragement now and then.
D on't look for their faults, even if you have none.
E ncourage their dreams, what would we be without them?
F orgive them, you just MAY do something wrong sometime.
G et together often, misery loves company, so does glee.
H ave faith in them, the human animal is remarkable.
I nclude them, you may need to be included sometime.
J ust be there when they need you.
K now when they need a hug, and couldn't you use one?
L ove them unconditionally, that is the ONLY condition.
M ake them feel special, because aren't we ALL special?
N ever forget them, who wants to feel forgotten?
O ffer to help, and know when "No thanks" is just politeness.
P raise them honestly and openly.
Q uietly disagree, noisy NO's make enemies.
R eally listen, a friendly ear is a soothing balm.
S ay you're sorry, don't let them assume it.
T alk frequently, communication is important.
U se good judgment.
V erbalize your feelings!
W ish them luck, hopefully good!
X amine your motives before you "help" out.
Y our words count, use them wisely.
Z ip your lips when told a secret.
By following these ABC's as often as you are able, you SHOULD live a LONG and friend-filled life.