Profound Sayings
1. Don't miss the beautiful colours of the rainbow while you're looking for the pot of gold at the end of it.
2. The nice part of living in a small town is that when I don't know what I'm doing, someone else does.
3. A bore is a fellow who persists in talking about himself when you want to talk about yourself.
4. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
5. What light? I'm still looking for the tunnel!
6. People who say nothing is impossible should try gargling with their mouths closed.
7. Ideas are like children-no matter how much you admire someone else's, you can't help liking your own best.
8. Truth does not depend on a consensus of opinion.
9. One nice thing about growing older is that you and your children eventually wind up on the same side of the generation gap.
10. Noah didn't wait for his ship to come in...he built one!
11. Adolescence is the awkward age when a child is too old to say something cute and too young to say something sensible.
12. The chief function of your body is to carry your brain around.
13. Yesterday is experience, tomorrow is hope... today is getting from one to the other.
14. A handful is patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
15. Success consists of getting up just one more time than you've fallen down.
16. Some days you're the bug; some days, the windshield!
17. The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
18. What we need is more milk of human kindness in the cream of society.
19. Life is easier than you think -- you have to do is this: Accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, bear the intolerable, and be able to smile at anything.
20. Being different isn't the same as making a difference.
21. Every time I think about exercise, I lie down 'til the thought goes away.
22. Friendship multiplies joy and divides grief.
23. Good sense is easier to have than use.
24. Tourist: A person who travels a thousand miles to get a picture of himself standing by his car.
courtesy of Peter Hawkins