'That's A Daddy'

Section One

No man is a failure without his own consent.
--Anonymous

It is impossible to sling mud with clean hands.
--Anonymous

When you help a fellowman up a steep hill,
you get nearer to the top yourself.
--Anonymous

Among the footprints in the sands of time,
make sure yours aren't not the mark of a heel.
--Anonymous

Breathe through your nose says the swimming instructor.
That will keep your mouth shut.
Not bad advice on land either.
--Anonymous

A speech is like a bicycle wheel --
the longer the spoke,
the greater the tire.
--Anonymous

The world's a stage and most of us
are desperately unrehearsed

Learn how to speak in public:

"A speech is a solemn responsibility.
The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech
to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of
his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours
of the audience's time -
more than four days -
which should be a hanging offense."
--Jenkin Lloyd Jones

"If you haven't struck oil in your first three minutes, stop boring."
--George Jessel

"My father gave me these hints on speech-making:
Be sincere . . . be brief . . . be seated."
--James Roosevelt

Section Two

A husband said to his wife,
"No, I don't hate your relatives.
In fact, I like your mother-in-law
better than I like mine."

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
- Dr. Seuss

Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper:
it doesn't permanently solve any problems,
but it makes things more acceptable for a while!

The gates of hell are locked from the inside.
--C.S. Lewis

The best lessons in life are learned at the worst times.
--Ani DiFranco

"Man never made any material as resilient
as the human spirit."
--Bern Williams

"No man can think clearly
when his fists are clenched."
--George Jean Nathan

Behold the turtle.
He only makes progress
when he sticks his neck out.
- James Bryant Conant

A smile is an inexpensive way
to improve your looks.
--Anonymous

Attitudes are contagious
-- is yours worth catching?
--Anonymous

Success comes in cans...
Failure comes in can'ts.
-- Dorothy Ross Lavoie

Section Three

Excellence ....

Many times the difference between failure and success
is doing something nearly right...
or doing it exactly right.

The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There's something beautiful about finding
one's innermost thoughts in another.
-Oliver Schreiner

A human being has a natural desire to have
more of a good thing than he needs.
-Mark Twain

It may be that your sole purpose in life is
simply to serve as a warning to others.
--Anonymous

It is far more impressive when others discover
your good qualities without your help.
--Anonymous

Don't squat with your spurs on.
--Anonymous

When you've been wronged,
try to strike a balance between
forgiving and forgetting.

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
the naïve forgive and forget;
the wise forgive but do not forget."
--Thomas Szasz

"Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet."
--Kin Hubbard

"Once a woman has forgiven her man,
she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."
--Marlene Dietrich

"Good is not good,
where better is expected."
--Thomas Fuller

Section Four

"The past is a guidepost ..... not a hitching post."
--L. Thomas Holdcroft

"God help those who do not help themselves."
--Wilson Mizener

"Follow your bliss.
Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it."
--Joseph Campbell

"Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else."
--Thomas Fuller

Love...

If you would love and be loved,
be ready to give your all:

"Love has nothing to do with what
you are expecting to get
-- only with what you are expecting
to give -- which is everything."
--Katharine Hepburn

"If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love,
then love will wholeheartedly respond to you."
--Marianne Williamson

"Love is or it ain't.
Thin love ain't love at all."
--Toni Morrison

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent,
intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next."
-Ursula K. Leguin

Any husband who says...
"My wife and I are completely
equal partners,"
is talking about either a law firm
or a hand of bridge.
--Bill Cosby

Section Five

Think big:

"Man's reach should exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?"
--Robert Browning

"Once you say you are going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you."
--John F. Kennedy

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up
and see the beauty, believe in them
and try to follow where they lead."
--Louisa May Alcott

"The important thing is not to stop Questioning"
– Albert Einstein

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."
--Margaret Mitchell

"There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want;
and after that, to enjoy it.
Only the wisest of
mankind achieve the second"
--Logan Pearsall Smith

"Faith is the only known cure for fear."
--Lena K. Sadler

Maintain your independence whenever it's possible:

"The proverb warns that,
'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.'
But maybe you should, if it prevents you from
feeding yourself."
--Thomas Szasz

"The greatest thing in the world
is to know how to be self-sufficient."
--Michel de Montaigne

If people fought sin as hard as they do middle age,
earth would be a moral paradise.
--Anonymous

Section Six

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage,
half shut afterwards.
--Benjamin Franklin

"We are not all capable of everything."
--Virgil

"Do not do onto others as you
would they should do onto you.
Their tastes may not be the same."
--George Bernard Shaw

Find the kind of exercise with which
you're most comfortable
-- and do it!:

"As long as my body is in shape,
my mind is working at its
full capacity."
--Victoria Principal

"Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds.
A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness
of body and in a dullness of expression
that invites no interest and gets none."
--Rose Kennedy

"Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion,
aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing
our body into hideous shiny Spandex,
grinning like a deranged orangutan,
and doing cretinous steps to debauched
disco music.'
--Cynthia Heimel

"Each day, and the living of it,
has to be a conscious creation in which
discipline and order are relieved with some
play and pure foolishness."
--May Sarton

"What is now proved was once imagined."
--William Blake

"No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is,
you still have to get out of it."
--Grace Slick

Section Seven

Concentrate!:

"Concentration is everything.
On the day I'm performing,
I don't hear anything or
anyone says to me."
--Luicano Pavarotti

"Do whatever you do intensely."
--Robert Henri

"Other people's interruptions of your work
are relatively insignificant
compared with the countless times
you interrupt yourself."
--Brendan Francis

Time is old, but every morning
is worthy of a new start.
--Anonymous

The smallest good deed is better
than the grandest good intention.
--Anonymous

Section Eight

A gentleman is a man who can disagree
without being disagreeable.
--Anonymous

"Each day is a new life.
Seize it.
Live it."
--David Guy Powers

"Impulse without reason is not enough,
and reason without impulse
is a poor makeshift."
--William James

"One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom."
--Muriel Spark

You can't climb the ladder of success
with your hands in your pockets.
     --Michael McDaniel

When the devil wants to win recruits
he never wastes his time among busy people.
     --Anonymous

Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.
     --Dave Platt

"I'm not happy.
I'm cheerful.
There's a difference.
A happy woman has no cares at all.
A cheerful woman has cares
but has learned how to deal with them."
--Beverly Sills

"Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake.
Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give
your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life."
--Antoinette Bosco

"The world belongs to the energetic."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Section Nine

Take many small steps and eventually
reap lots of big benefits:

"Nothing can be done except little by little."
--Charles Baudelaire

"I recommend that you take care of the minutes,
for the hours will take care of themselves."
--Lord Chesterfield

"Life is a great bundle of little things."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes