Quotes of the Week (v6)

“Never grow a wishbone, where your backbone ought to be.”

- Clementine Paddleford



“Nobody rises to low expectations.”

- Calvin Lloyd



“The horror of that moment’, the King went on, ‘I shall never forget.’

‘You will, though,’ the Queen said, ‘if you don't make a memorandum of it.”

- Lewis Carroll



“It is only reason that teaches silence; the heart teaches us to speak.”

- Jean Paul Richter



“After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.”

- Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman)



“Where the river is deepest it makes the least sound.”

- Italian Proverb



“Conceit is God's gift to little men.”

- Bruce Barton



“Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.”

- Sir Henry Taylor



“It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.”

- Warren Buffett



“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”

- Abraham Lincoln



“Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.”

- Proverbs 27:2



“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body.”

- Cicero



“Where your will is ready, your feet are light.”

- George Herbert



“Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians.”

- Franklin P. Jones



“Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.”

- William G. Benham



“You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.”

- Doug Floyd



“People do not lack strength; they lack will.”

- Victor Hugo



“Do all the good you can,

By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can,

To all the people you can,

As long as ever you can.”

- John Wesley