Quotable Quotes

[Foreigner]

“There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”


― Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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[drron]

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be."

Thomas Jefferson.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Taken off Facebook, true with the recent aircraft disasters you never know when your time is up.

 

[Bundy Bear]

I thought this was a good quote from a recent Blog It's Time To Tackle The Bucket List.

just do the stuff we’ve been wanting to do in life, and hopefully with the people we’ve been wanting to do it with.

Ben Schlappig = One Mile At A Time.

 

[drron]

‘The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.’

Bertrand Russel

 

[drron]

‘My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.’

Ashleigh Brilliant.

 

[get me outta here]

"Please wait here until you are useful. Thank you."

I am considering this sign be put up at my front door.

copied from here: A Catch Up in London’s Hip Hood |

 

[JohnM]

Think about your beliefs, not with them. - anon.

 

[codash1099]

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”
― Charles Darwin

(Qantas please note)

 

[Foreigner]

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it."

- Warren Buffet


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[Maca44]

It's better to be an hour early than one minute late

(something my kids should learn)

 

[JessicaTam]

It's better to be an hour early than one minute late

(something my kids should learn)

Especially when it comes to lounge access.

 

[Foreigner]

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.


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[JohnM]

Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work. - Peter Drucker (a management 'guru').

 

[drron]

A few quotes that express the true nature of AFF.

Life is about what we give,not about what we get.
Ken Duncan

I see my path but I don't know where it leads.Not knowing where I am going is what inspires me to travel it.
Rosalia de Castro.


And one that I agree with.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Joseph Heller.

 

[serfty]

...
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Joseph Heller.

There's got to be a catch ...

 

[drron]

There's got to be a catch ...

22 of them I believe.

 

[amaroo]

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it"

"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center"

"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all"

Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

[Foreigner]

“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great”

― Zig Ziglar


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[drron]

Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix.