favorite quotes read in 05

Benjamin Franklin:
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

Randy Moss:
When you’re rich, you don’t write checks. Straight cash, homey.

Dag Hammarskjold:
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Marion Parker:
Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody’s lonesome.

Chinese proverb:
Talk does not cook rice.

Franklin P. Jones:
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

W. C. Fields:
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake–which I also keep handy.

Edgar Watson Howe:
When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Theodore Roosevelt:
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Thomas Guthrie:
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Orson Welles:
I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.

Formula 1 auto racing president on Danica Patrick, female driving sensation:
“…women should be dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.”

Alfred Lord Tennyson:
The greater man the greater courtesy.

FEMA chief Michael Brown, in an email a few days into the Katrina disaster:
“Thanks for the update. Anything specific I need to do or tweak?”

Marcel Proust:
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.