Funny Quote of the Day
“I once met an assassin who’s nickname was fart. I ask him why he has this nickname and he tells me it’s because he’s silent but deadly.” – Jack Handey
Albert Einstein Quote of the Day
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” – Albert Einstein
Aging Quotes #4
# The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off … you will see the scar there still. – Olive Schreiner
# We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw
# What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. – Henry David Thoreau
# When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood. – Sam Ewing
# Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future. – Dale Turner
# Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. – Tom Wilson
# Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. – Gloria Steinem
# The years like great black oxen tread the world,
And God, the herdsman goads them on behind,
And I am broken by their passing feet. – William Butler Yeats
# You and I are old… Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are–
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Ulysses)
# You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear as young as your hope, as old as your despair. – Douglas MacArthur
# You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. – John Nuveen
# You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. – Bob Hope
Happiness Quote of the Day
“Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form ‘spokes.’ Happiness is when he stops.” – Jack Handey
Fool Quote of the Day
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” – Dale Carnegie
Aging Quotes #3
# Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur
# Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. – Don Marquis
# Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. – Gerald Brenan (“Life” Thoughts in a Dry Season: a Miscellany)
# The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything. – Oscar Wilde
# On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light. – Freya Stark
# One thing that can make us old fast is thinking that we are getting old. – Robert P. Lockwood (A Guy’s Guide to the Good Life) New! as of 08/21/10
# People don’t grow old. When they stop growing, they become old. – Anonymous
# People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five… It’s all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.- Rita Moreno
# The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. – Marya Mannes
# Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind. – Ethel Percy Andrus
# A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. – Abraham Heschel
# There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. – Sophia Loren
# Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. – Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
# To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. – Henri Frederic Amiel
# To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. – Clara Ortega
SpongeBob Quotes
“Look at all that warm, toasty fur.” – SpongeBob SquarePants
“It’s like a goldmin, but with fur.” – Patrick
“Gary, you are gonna finish your dessert, and you are gonna like it!” – SpongeBob SquarePants
“This city needs to be destroyed! Or at least painted another color.” – Squidward
“That’s no reason to go ripping people’s heads off boy.” – Mr. Crabs
“I can’t see my forehead!” – Patrick
“Do you smell it? That smell. A kind of smelly smell. The smelly smell that smells… smelly.” – Mr. Krabs
“Stupidity isn’t a virus… but it sure is spreadin’ like one!” – Sandy
“He washed my flipper!” – Pearl
“Holographic meatloaf! My favorite!” – Plankton
“People talk loud when they want to sound smart, right?” – Squidward
Dr. Shad Helmstetter’s “Choices” Quotes
These are 26 Quotes from Dr. Shad Helmstetter’s book named “Choices:
1 – “No one else can ever make your choices for you. Your choices are yours alone. They are as much a part of you as every breath you will take, every moment of your life.”
2 – “You may think that in life, a lot of things happen to you along the way. The truth is, in life, you happen to a lot of things along the way.”
3 – “Choosing to live your life by your own choice is the greatest freedom you will ever have.”
4 – “It is only when you exercise your right to choose that you can also exercise your right to change.”
5 – “It is your programming that has created your choices in the past. It is the choices you make today that are creating the programs of your future.”
6 – “If you were given only one choice: To choose or not to choose, which would you choose?”
7 – “The choices we make by accident are just as important as the choices we make by design.”
8 – “Another person’s choice is nothing more than another alternative for you to consider.”
9 – “There is no life as complete as the life that is lived by choice.”
10 – “There may be a thousand little choices in a day. All of them count.”
11 – “Whatever you choose, you might as well enjoy it. It is your choice.”
12 – “When you have a problem, make a choice…you’ll feel better.”
13 – “If you’d like to know what your choices have been, look at yourself and the life you have lived. What you see is the choices you’ve made.”
14 – “Who knows what you could accomplish in life if you made more of the right choices along the way?”
15 – “Some people choose to live by complaining. Other people choose to live.”
16 – “You cannot manage your life if you do not manage your self. You cannot manage your self if you do not manage your choices. Manage your choices, and you will manage your life.”
17 – “Learning what to choose, and how to choose, may be the most important education you will ever receive.”
18 – “The choices we make in the heat of emotion would be better if left for some other day.”
19 – “Listen to the quietest whispers of your mind. They are telling you the choices that will help you the most.”
20 – “Even the best of choices is only as strong as the choices that stand by its side.”
21 – “It is the big choices we make that set our direction. It is the smallest choices we make that get us to the destination.”
22 – “Each day that passes, your choices will come and go. They are like diamonds in a chest of jewels, each waiting to be discovered.”
23 – “Those who choose to succeed always do better than those who never choose at all.”
24 – “The highest levels are most certainly filled with those who chose to be there.”
25 – “If you have to take time to make a choice, take time. Then make the choice.”
26 – “The end result of your life here on earth will always be the sum total of the choices you made while you were here.”
Life Quote of the Day
“Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.” – Tom Hanks
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Aging Quotes #2
# Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old,
and an old man in whom there is something of the young.
Guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind. – Marcus Tillius Cicero
# The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. – Madeleine L’Engle (The New York Times, 1985)
# How confusing the beams from memory’s lamp are;
One day a bachelor, the next a grampa.
What is the secret of the trick?
How did I get so old so quick? – Ogden Nash (“Preface to the Past” You Can’t Get There from Here)
# I believe the second half of one’s life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it. – Frances Lear
# I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point. – Susan Sarandon
# I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward. – Mary Sarton (May Sarton: Excerpts from a Life)
# I think that, for all of us, as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open. – Clint Eastwood
# I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. – Margaret Mead
# If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. – James A. Garfield
# If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old. – Ed Howe
# If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. – Larry McMurty
# In old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes. – Victor Hugo
# Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. – Kurt Vonnegut
# My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom. – Nancy Collins
# Never retire. Michelangelo was carving the Rondanini just before he died at 89. Verdi finished his opera Falstaff at 80. And the 80-year -old Spanish artist Goya scrawled on a drawing, “I am still learning.” – Dr. W. Gifford-Jones