Here is one of my "all-time" favorites = "The Arena"
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles 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 dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory or defeat."
Teddy Roosevelt
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Here is another one of my favorites: The New York Yankee's were in St. Louis one year to play the Cardinals in the World Series, and a group of the players got together to go to dinner. One of the guys suggested that they go to a certain Italian food restaurant. One of the other players said that he wasn't interested in "that" place. The guy who suggested the restaurant asked why not? And the guy said, "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded." "That" guy was : YOGI BERRA.
QUESTION? Why do we wash "bath towels" ? Aren't we clean when we use them? (Author unknown.) DEFINITION of: What is a teenager? "God's punishment for enjoying sex." (stated by several parents.) AND, another one of my favorites....... "There was never a horse that couldn't be rode......... and........ There was never a cowboy that couldn't be throwed." (By, an: Old Farmer - year: unknown). Here is a good one........ "Life is like a roll of toilet paper........ The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes." (Author unknown.)
Here is another good one......... "Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at either of them." Golfer Jimmy Demerit - 1955
Another one from an Old Farmer....... "If you find yourself in a hole, stop diggin." COMMON SENSE.....................
"Upon seeing the shadow of a pigeon,
One must resist the urge to look up." (Confucious?) POLITICS.............. "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." (Ronald Reagan). DETERMINATION....... "All I really wanted to do was to make two lanes play the same." John Davis REGARDING TAKING RISKS: "Don't ever be afraid to go out on a limb
because THAT is where the fruit is." Doyle Brunson "LUCK" "Luck favors those who are well prepared." (Here's a couple of old favorites). A). "Don't sweat the small stuff." B). "What goes around, comes around." (Could never figure this one out). Why do they call it: "The Department of Interior",
when they are in charge of everything outdoors?
CRITICISM............... Before you criticize someone, you
should walk a mile in their shoes............. That way, when you criticize them, you're
a mile away..........and you have their shoes !! :-) A chicken crossing the road, is:
"Poultry in Motion." From a disgruntled husband......... "I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury!" Another Golf "GEM"....... GOLF IS A GAME IN WHICH THE SLOWEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
ARE THOSE IN FRONT OF YOU...............................
AND THE FASTEST ONES ARE THOSE THAT ARE BEHIND YOU.
PHILOSOPHY....... "Nature has given us two ears, two eyes and but one tongue -
to the end that we should hear and see - more than we speak/" SOCRATES MORE PHILOSOPHY.......... "I find it amazing that ALL of the news in the world
everyday, can fit in one newspaper." JERRY SEINFELD
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