Life's advice and phrases....

All you need is love. The Beatles.

All you need is a .300 weatherby. My old man.
 
An exchange attributed to an intoxicated Winston Churchill and a lady at a dinner party.
“Mr. Prime minister you are drunk.”

“Quite right,madam, and you are ugly. In the morning morning I shall be sober, but you will still be ugly.”
 
....from Oscar Wilde

“Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?
Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Cecil Graham: And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.”
 
a couple from a friend who just passed....

"it's ok to struggle. It's not ok to give up."

“What am I going to be thinking about on my final days here?
I just want to be proud of what I did.
I hope what people mainly see is that you can still make something beautiful and something powerful out of a really bad situation,” she said.
“You can still find some good in it. I will never let cancer have the last word.”
 
I just realized I posted a quote from my Mom on another thread regarding work but it was originally intended as marriage advice. "The grass isn't always greener. All you'll trade are one set of problems for another."
 
"Just because I've ordered doesn't mean I can't look at the menu"
My dad when I caught him checking the waitress out at Dennys.
 
A few of my late Grandpa's

"It's better to be pissed off than pissed on. It's better to be pissed on than stood on and pissed off of."
"If you can't drink while you're there, you better be drunk by the time you get there."
"The definition of diplomacy: Telling someone to go to hell and having them look forward to the trip."
"They've been educated far beyond their ability to learn"
 
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