Quotes

NERD ALERT!!!!!

I collect quotes that have inspired me or affected my life in some way. Here are a few of my favorites-- anyone else have good ones? Funny, cheesy, serious- whatever.

You must become the change you wish to see in the world
(Mahatma Gandhi)

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it
(Plato)

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy
(Gretta Brooker Palmer)

Happiness and Trouble stand at everyone's gate. Yours is the choice which you will invite in
(Chinese proverb)

I will let no man drag me down so low as to hate him
(Booker T Washington)

All generalizatinos, including this one, are false
(Voltaire)

There isn't even enough time for love, so what does that leave for hate?
(Anon)

If you say you've got troubles as big as my own,
I'm forced to admit that it's true.
But consider the fact that mine happen to ME
While yours merely happen to YOU!
(Quoted by Herbert Prochnaw)

"I always knew I'd look back and laugh at the things that made me cry, but I never thought that I'd look back and cry at the things that made me laugh"

I have a Yogi Berra quote fetish...Here are some that I really like:

"It ain't over till it's over."

"This is like deja vu all over again."

Phil Rizzuto - "Hey Yogi I think we're lost." - Yogi Berra - "Ya, but we're making great time!"

"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."

" I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head."

"You can observe a lot just by watchin'."

"In baseball, you don't know nothin'."

"How can you think and hit at the same time?"

Yogi Berra on seeing a Steve McQueen movie: - "He must have made that before he died"

"If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."

"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical"

Mrs. Lindsay - "You certainly look cool." - Yogi Berra - "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself."

"Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded."

"I want to thank all those who made this night necessary."

"I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early."

Interviewer - "Why, you're a fatalist !" - Yogi Berra - "You mean I save postage stamps ? Not me."

"You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

"Slump ? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin."

"It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it."

"It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much."

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men." - Colossians 3:23 (NIV)

"I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member." - Groucho Marx

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." - Thomas Jefferson

If you're gonna be a bear, be a grizzly!!! (Cannonball run)

I have a quote from Yogi Bear...

"Hey ah BooBoo....watch me get that picinic basket!":lookaroun