I have found this to be true. Love it Fran!

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
~~ Groucho Marx



(let's see how many threads we can post this one on that would be pertinent... )

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Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.

--- John Wooden

Here's one that goes nicely with that one.

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." - Thomas Paine

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Very nice

Kudos

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.

--- John Ruskin

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.

The truth of a matter will always haunt you, no matter how secret the hiding place.

whoa

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.


-- Margaret Atwood

Having experienced this man's wrath first hand, this quote hits rather close to home....

"If you want a friend, get a dog. I've got two."

"Chainsaw" Al Dunlap
Corporate "Cut and Dump specialist"
From his book Mean Business

“My life is like a stroll on the beach...as near to the edge as I can go.”


--Thoreau

Why is there enough religion to incite war, yet not enough to instill tolerance?

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

Kahlil Gibran

"This too shall pass" - I posted this earlier in the thread but didn't share the story behind it.



One day Solomon decided to humble Benaiah ben Yehoyada, his most trusted minister. He said to him, "Benaiah, there is a certain ring that I want you to bring to me. I wish to wear it for Sukkot which gives you six months to find it."

"If it exists anywhere on earth, your majesty," replied Benaiah, "I will find it and bring it to you, but what makes the ring so special?"

"It has magic powers," answered the king. "If a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy." Solomon knew that no such ring existed in the world, but he wished to give his minister a little taste of humility.

Spring passed and then summer, and still Benaiah had no idea where he could find the ring. On the night before Sukkot, he decided to take a walk in one of he poorest quarters of Jerusalem. He passed by a merchant who had begun to set out the day's wares on a shabby carpet. "Have you by any chance heard of a magic ring that makes the happy wearer forget his joy and the broken-hearted wearer forget his sorrows?" asked Benaiah.

He watched the grandfather take a plain gold ring from his carpet and engrave something on it. When Benaiah read the words on the ring, his face broke out in a wide smile.

That night the entire city welcomed in the holiday of Sukkot with great festivity. "Well, my friend," said Solomon, "have you found what I sent you after?" All the ministers laughed and Solomon himself smiled.

To everyone's surprise, Benaiah held up a small gold ring and declared, "Here it is, your majesty!" As soon as Solomon read the inscription, the smile vanished from his face. The jeweler had written three Hebrew letters on the gold band: _gimel, zayin, yud_, which began the words "_Gam zeh ya'avor_" -- "This too shall pass."

At that moment Solomon realized that all his wisdom and fabulous wealth and tremendous power were but fleeting things, for one day he would be nothing but dust.

Nice, Myka!

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

--Emerson