Sayings Near and Dear to Me ...

in no particular order ...

    Nothing matters very much and few things matter at all.    

   There is no evidence at all to suggest that life is serious.

  Luck is what kicks in after you've given 100%.   

 If you have a frog to swallow, don't look at it too long.

 It is amazing what can get accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.   

 Never tire of trying your best.

 Everyone has a photographic memory ... some just don't have any film.   

 I'd cook if I could find the can opener.

 It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.    

 If you push something hard enough it will fall over.

One advantage of being disorderly is that one is always making exciting discoveries.

 Life is an attitude.

 We can only do the best we can, but that does not guarantee the outcome. 

Eschew  Obfuscation!

 Choices have consequences.   

 It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

 You are a very special person - become what you are.   

You can't make a wit out of two half-wits!

 There is nothing wrong with having nothing to say unless you insist on saying it.

 Without humor nothing would be funny.   

 Cast your own special shadow.

 The tragedy of life is not that we die but is what dies inside of us as we live.   

 If you moralize, keep it brief.

 If you don't know where you're going any road will take you there.   

 If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.

 You have to be aware that you are unaware. 

  If you always do what you've always done, You'll always get what you've always got!

  High Standards are Realistic Goals, Perfectionism is Self-Abuse.

I don't get even, I get odder.

 I always wanted to be a procrastinator, never got around to it.   

 I'm having an out of money experience.

 As long as you're going to be thinking anyway ... THINK BIG.

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.

 Begin somewhere.  You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.   

Experience tells us to put a premium on people who appreciate us for what we really are.

Surly to bed and surly to rise!

You have a choice.  It may not be a choice you like but it is still a choice.   

In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.

 I plan on living forever.  So far, so good.    

Timshel:  Everything is possible.  John.Steinbeck.

 Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. 

  Hardwork spotlights the character of people.  Some turn up their sleeves,

some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. 

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. 

Sometimes it's more important to laugh than accomplish something.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back

to you when you have forgotten how it goes.

 The average amount of sleep required by the average person is just 5 minutes longer! 

Our life is frittered away by detail ....Simplify, Simplify.

I always try and be prompt; no matter how long it takes.

The biggest cause of failure is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.

No matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

Well behaved people rarely make history.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

There are no shortcuts to any place that is worth going.

I've started an exercise program. I do 20 sit-ups each morning.  That may not sound like a lot,

but you can only hit that snooze button so many times.

No one knows their true character until they have raised an adolescent.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

I believe you should live each day as if it is your last,

which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on,

who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?

  "I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came." - Abraham Lincoln . 

"You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales." - Leo Rosten

 Cherish all your happy moments: They make a fine cushion for old age.

 In my spare time I look for spare time.

Be kind to unkind people; they need it the most. 

Know yourself, like yourself, be yourself.

Why did the woman cross the road?

Well, to get a haircut, to grab a sandwich before the trial at which she is presiding, to buy socks for her children on her lunch hour, to meet a friend, to pick up her kids at daycare, to take her father to the doctor, to pick out a wedding ring, to consult a divorce lawyer, to get an abortion, to apply for a promotion, to take a maternity leave, to buy her husband a present, to take her kids to the museum, to go to the lesbian bar, to get to the shelter for abused women, to run around the track, to pick up her prescription, to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship, to find a jar of sauce for a spaghetti supper.

Oh, and just maybe to get to the other side.  Judith Timson - Macleans, September 3, 2001 

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven."  -John Milton

 I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.  I think I've forgotten this before.

Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.  

   Life knows who we are .... but she rarely comes looking for those of us who are,

at the heart of ourselves, spectators.  - Sydney Poitier

 Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell her  

......somebody isn't a mother.