Friday, April 24, 2009

Favorite Birthday Quotes


  • The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
    -Oprah Winfrey
  • There is still no cure for the common birthday.
    -John Glenn
  • A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
    -Dorothea Kent
  • Age is a number and mine is unlisted.
    -Anonymous
  • With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
    -William Shakespeare
  • Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    -Bernard Baruch
  • Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
    -Maurice Chevalier
  • My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
    -William Blake
  • Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
    -Pope John XXIII
  • If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
    -Abraham Sutzkever

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Favorite Funny Quotes


  • Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
    -Will Rogers
  • Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
    -Groucho Marx
  • I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
    -George Burns
  • Coffee isn't my cup of tea.
    -Samuel Goldwyn
  • I do benefits for all religions. I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
    -Bob Hope
  • Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
    -Robert Benchley
  • The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
    -Arthur Schopenhauer
  • More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.
    -Robert Orben
  • Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
    -G. K. Chesterton
  • I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
    -Katherine Hepburn

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Favorite Love Quotes

  • Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

    -Franklin P. Jones

  • At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

    -Plato

  • Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

    -Robert Frost

  • If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

    -Sir James M. Barrie

  • Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

    -Henry Louis Mencken

  • Love is a friendship set to music.

    -E. Joseph Cossman

  • True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

    -Erich Segal

  • Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

    -Voltaire

  • They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

    -William Shakespeare

  • Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

    -Lord Byron

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Finest leadership quotes


  • Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
    -Peter F. Drucker
  • Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
    -George S. Patton
  • Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
    -Dwight Eisenhower
  • A leader is a dealer in hope.
    -Napoleon Bonaparte
  • I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
    -Benjamin Disraeli
  • The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
    -Elaine Agather
  • Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
    -Robert Half
  • Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
    -Groucho Marx
  • The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
    -Theodore M. Hesburgh
  • The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    -Theodore Roosevelt
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