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Showing posts with label People. Show all posts
Showing posts with label People. Show all posts

Friday, May 3, 2013

Workers

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. - Sam Ewing

The good; the bad; the ugly.

Sunday, April 14, 2013

If You Are A Dog

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail. - Fran Lebowitz

Not only be true to your nature but be true to others nature as well.


Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Your Choice

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


Your choice.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Fashion

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau


Following the fashion of your generation into adulthood is a sign of stability rather than lacking perception.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Fooling Folks

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. - James Thurber

..... Because of the prevailing opinion that people must be, and are, "protected."

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Wasting Time

Waste no time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

..... Don't waste your time talking about anyone. Ideas, yes; people, no. No use wasting your time with small topics.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Normal Folk

The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well. - Alfred Adler

..... Normal is pretty boring.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Star Bright

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook. - Gordon B. Hinckley


There is nothing that brightens a personality so much as a positive outlook.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Masculine & Feminine

The masculine grows by challenge but the feminine grows by praise. - David Deida


Yes, but don't assume anyone is purely masculine or feminine.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Weekend Trivia

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. - Chuck Palahniuk

  If someone asks you how your weekend was, don't disappoint them - ask them how their's was.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Sometimes It Rains

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. - Bob Dylan 

  Some care if they get wet and some don't.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Collective Wisdom

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - Thomas Carlyle 

  The whole is never greater than the sum of the parts when it comes to people.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

For Themselves

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. - Gene Fowler

Men, women, classmates, neighbors, politicians are all the same; out for themselves though their actions, on the surface, may look otherwise.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Neighbours

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood. - Louise Beal


Carefully, very carefully.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Fools

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. - Charles Lamb


Present company excepted of course.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Good People

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good. - Jimmy Wales


Don't let the news warp your view of people.

Monday, March 26, 2012

World Views

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others. - Francis De La Rochefourcauld


And the timid think everyone else needs to be cared for.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Bad Company

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. - George Washington


If you assume all people are inherently evil you will end up very lonely.

Friday, March 9, 2012

What Others Think

I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behavior in order to find favor with them. - Kathryn L. Nelson


You can't please all the people all the time. - Abraham Lincoln

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Beauty's Transit

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. - Martin Buxbaum


A fair trade.