Sunday, June 14, 2009

Darkly Comical Quotes

It is the growling man who lives a dog’s life. – Coleman Cox

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time- not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day. – Thomas Dreier

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. – Chamfort

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. – Newton D. Baker

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character. – Horace Greely

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no importance. Your thoughts are making you. – Bishop Steere

Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who ca tell whether the bridge of the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when. – Eugene G. Grace

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. General Peyton C. March

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