“When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.” — Czech Proverb
“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.” — Wernher von Braun
“It’s impossible to make the eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.” — Roald Dahl
“Discretion is not the better part of biography.” — Lytton Strachey
“Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.” — Norman Cousins
“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.” — Samuel Beckett
“Writing is hard for every last one of us… Coal mining is harder.” — Cheryl Strayed
“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.” — Mark Twain
“When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.” — African Proverb
“Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.” — William Frank Buckley, Jr.
“You don’t need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.” — Paulo Coelho
“I am not young enough to know everything.” — Oscar Wilde
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.” — Horace
“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” — Frances Willard
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.” — Man In The Street Law
“A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.” — Harold MacMillan
“Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.” — Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.” — Tom Waits
“So little of what could happen does happen.” — Salvador Dali
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” — J. P. Morgan
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.” — Ella Maillart
“Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.” — Barbara Kingsolver
“It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.” — Homer
“Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too.” — Beau Taplin
“Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.” — Edgar Watson Howe
“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.” — Edward R. Murrow
“You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.” — Wynonna Judd
“Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers Society of, The?” — Keith Waterhouse
Hello Friends and Readers of JBRish:
We will be on hiatus for approximately two weeks and hopefully return around the middle of June with more stories, quotes, pickleball tips, photographs, etc. Please feel free to peruse the archives for items you may have missed in the past. We are proud that we have recently reached a milestone of more than one thousand posts.
Jeff
“The dreamers are the saviors of the world. – James Allen”
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“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one’s country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.” — George McGovern
“Fantasy is the heart of real estate.” — Allison Glock
“Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.” — Sir Francis Bacon
“The good news is every day is an opportunity to go back to the drawing board.” — Angela Porisky-Khan
“It takes a genius to whine appealingly.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald