Level One Quotes & Sayings

Collected Quotes & Sayings

In my various Internet journeys, I come across many different sayings and quotes.
I have always wondered what to do with them and seem to have them stored all
over. So.... what the hell.... I'll just post them here.
Keep checkin back.... as always....it will change.

"We trained hard, but every time we formed up into teams, we were re-organised. I was to learn later in life we tend to meet any new situation by re-organising, and what a wonderful method it can be for producing the ILLUSION of progress, while actually producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization".
Gaius Petronius, AD 66

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

"Give it your best shot - If you die, try it again in your next life."

"Like most primitive people, I believe that morality arises from a state of primeval innocence to which we must try to be faithful if we are not to be lost altogether."

"I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like.
It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good.
I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it."

"The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life."
Robert Maclver

"A toast to the beautiful and wicked fires of our soul. May they never be quenched by the mundane waters of time."

"To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
Robert A. Heinlein

"Currently flying under bitchout radar."

"Never kick a fresh cow chip on a hot day."

"Always take a good look at what you're about to eat."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
Oscar Wilde

"My Karma ran over your Dogma."

"My mind takes me places an engine never will."

"You have done so much with so little for so long, that you are now qualified to do anything with nothing."

"Money can't buy you friendship, but it gets you a better class of enemy:"
Spike Milligan.

"I wouldn't say he was ugly, but his mum used to feed him with a slingshot."

"Conform, go crazy, or become an artist."

"A bright future lurks just a realization away."

"It takes alot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant!"

"Not only do I talk the talk, I also walk the walk. What about you?" (Pay attention Christina)

"The more I see of men, the more I like dogs."
Clara Bow

"Live deeply and passionately, you may be hurt, but it's the only way to live."

"Got on my dead man's suit and my smilin' skull ring
My lucky graveyard boots, and song to sing
I got a song to sing, to keep me out of the cold
And I'll meet you further on up the road"
Bruce Springsteen

"Do you live from the inside out or the outside in?"

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, WOW! What a ride!"

"The joys of friendships, like a babbling brook, flows slowly from heart to heart with an endless circulation of love."

"Yours is the creative energy that makes your world."

"There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in."

"There are some who look and only see the frost on the pumpkin...and others who see the drool on the pie!"
Tom Robbins

"Do what you feel, feel until the end"
Enigma

"It's not enough to have a good mind, but the main thing is to use it well."

The greatest risk ever is the one not taken.

"Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river."
Lao Tse

"Character is what you are in the Dark."
D.L. Moody

"Trophies can be bought. Substance cannot."

"My reality check has bounced."

"May the force be with you."

"The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
Emily Dickinson

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the World."

"When I was young I used to pray for a bike, then I realized that God doesn't work that way,
so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness."

"Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take your breath away"
Leanna

"That which does not kill me, makes me stronger."
Friederich Wilhelm Nietzche

"True poets don't write Their thoughts with a pen.
They release the ink that flows From within their heart".
Anonymous

"Look for the worst, hope for the best"
Anonymous

"What we do for ourselves dies with us; what we have done for others and for the world remains and is immortal."
Albert Pike

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the
doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt - (Paris Sorbonne,1910)

"The trick to flying is throwing yourself at the ground and missing."

"The hardest thing to do in life is to watch the one you love, love some one else."

"RELIGION is for people afraid of hell, SPIRITUALITY is for people who have already been there."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt.

"Lust is life - the rest is just details."

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

"Look for the worst, hope for the best."
Shannon DeHart

"When all is said and done love is the universal truth. The only thing that really endures.
All knowledge and wisdom passes thru but love remains."

"The most wasted of all days is the one without laughter."
E.E. Cummings

"I will not play Tug O' War.
I'd rather play Hug O' War.
Where everyone hugs, instead of tugs.
And everyone giggles and rolls on the rug.
Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins; everyone cuddles, and everyone wins."
Shel Silverstein

"I live the way I type; fast, with a lot of mistakes."

"Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings."

"If you don't fall down, your not trying."

"Nothing says "this is serious" like a corpse on the floor."

"Not all who wander are lost."
Tolkien

"30% pure or should that be 70% impure?"

"When we cannot act as we wish We must act as we can."
Terrence

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."
Theodore Roethke

"Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow."

"You are the music while the music lasts."
T.S Eliot

"Show me what's it's like
To be the last one standing
And teach me wrong from right
And i'll show you what I can be."
Nickelback

"If at first you don't succeed, redefine the meaning of success."

"When you were born, you were crying and the whole world was smiling. Live your life to the fullest so that when you die, the whole world is crying and you are the one smiling."

"When I look up to the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more."
Anne Frank

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?"
Kahil Gibran

"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by the art of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived by fear of punishment."
Gandhi

"When the peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male."

"You go stay go, I go stay come."
Hawaiian T shirt - Xmas 2007

"Kimo's Rules" - Hawaiian T shirt Xmas 2007
1. Never judge a day by it's weather.
2. The best things in life aren't things.
3. Tell the truth - there's less to remember.
4. Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.
5. Goals are deceptive - the unaimed arrow never misses.
6. He who dies with the most toys - still dies.
7. Age is relative - when your over the hill, you pick up speed.
8. There are two was to be rich - make more or desire less.
9. Beauty is internal - looks mean nothing.
10. No rain - no rainbows.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Choose your words carefully, for they become actions.
Understand your actions, for they become habits.
Study your habits, for they will become your character.
Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most!

Tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic!

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Ghandi

What you give you get back... sometimes.
But if you never give in the first place, then you never get back at all.

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