Quotes

Poetry n Prose

Quotes from the chalkboard
(as they were jotted down)

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If I know who originated the quote I will specify.

People, like boats, toot loudest when they're in a fog.

Sarcasm: Barbed wire.

Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Push, Pull, or get out of the way.

He who sleeps much, learns little.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

The lucky rabbit's foot is still on the rabbit.

The trouble with people who talk to o fast is that often they say something they haven't thought of yet.

If life were a bed of roses, some people wouldn't be happy until they developed an allergy.

One advantage of living in the past--it's cheaper.

He who is content merely to ride on other's coattails will always find himself bringing up the rear.

A secret is your slave if you keep it, your master if you lose it.

Patience is something you admire greatly in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead of you.

Loves first cousin--trust. ---Eric Evareid, CBS

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.--Ted Roosevelt

Astronomy is over your head. --Dave Thomas

Geometry is easy as Pi. --Tim Walters.

Oceanography is researched in depth. --Susie Hellyer

One fellow claims he never loses his temper. But he admits, "Occasionally I do mislay it."

As long as you have a window, life is exciting.- Gladys Taber

Just be glad you're not getting all the government you're paying for. --Will Rogers

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.

Road maps tell motorists everything he wants to know except how to fold them up again.

Little things console us because little things afflict us. --Blaise Pascal

the sum total of our national debt is sum total. --Mack McGinnis

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. --Chris Morley

Appreciation is the memory of the heart.

Success is often just an idea away. --Frank Tyger

On the first day of spring my true love gave to me: five packs of seeds, four sacks of fertilizer, three cans of weed killer, two bottles of insect spray, and a pruning knife for the pear trees. --Dick West