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Quotable Quotes from Reader's Digest
This is a compilation of various 'Quotable Quotes' from Reader's Digest.
I'm sure you will find most, if not all, of these interesting, if not
funnny. Typed by Ethan Filner, SysOp of *The Coliseum BBS* -838 0820-
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"Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for."
RUTH BOORSTIN in The Wall Street Journal
"We are tomorrow's past."
MARY WEBB, Precious Bane
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
JOHN WOODEN, They Call Me Coach
"An economist's guess is liable to be just as good as anybody else's."
WILL ROGERS
"I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat."
DAVID BERRY, The Whales of August
"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."
JEAN de La FONTAINE
"Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not
respond with a description of your own."
ANDREW V. MASON, M.D.
"People are always making rules for themselves and always finding
loopholes."
WILLIAM ROTSLER
"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor."
ROBERTSON DAVIES in Our Living Tradition
"Discipline is remembering what you want."
DAVID CAMPBELL
"One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that
comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy-whether he knows it or
not."
O.A. BATTISTA in Quote Magazine
"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it
is inexplicable."
MARGOT FONTEYN, The Magic of Dance
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"Pessimism never won any battle."
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
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"Gosts: unsubstantiated roomers."
ANGIE PAPADAKIS
"Haunted-house: intensive-scare unit."
LINDA LONG
"Artistic jack-o-lantern: avant-gourd."
WILLIAM R. SIEMS
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"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts files away just below
the conscious level."
JOYCE BROTHERS, How to Get Whatever You Want Out Of Life
"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them."
HUGH MILLER,Snow on the Wind
"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it,
you might as well laugh about it now."
MARIE OSMOND
"Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his
thumb on the scales."
BYRON J. LANGENFIELD
"Be curious always! For knowledge will not aquire you; you must aquire it."
SUDIE BACK
"The best cure for the national economy would be an economy."
ASHLEY COOPER
"Bores bore each other, too, but it never seems to teach them anything."
DON MARQUIS
"What isn't tried won't work."
CLAUDE McDONALD
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to
grow sharper."
EDEN PHILLPOTTS
"I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something
I hate."
GEORGE BURNS
"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope."
BERNIE SIEGEL
"Having it all doesn't necessarily mean having it all at once."
STEPHANIE LUETKEHANS
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what
you don't like, and do what you'd druther not."
MARK TWAIN
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
GEORGE WASHINGTON
"The difference btween the impossible and the possible lies in a person's
determination."
TOMMY LASORDA
"Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain
distance, you have not experienced summer night."
HENRY BEETLE HOUGH
"Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts."
ROBERT FULGHUM, All I Really Need To Know I learned In Kindergarten
"He who helps early helps twice."
TADEUSZ MAZOWIECKI, Prime minister of Poland
"To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable."
BARRY M. GOLDWATER
"Rain is caused by high-pressure areas, cold fronts, warm, moist air and
weekends."
PAUL SWEENY
"Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper."
SCOTTISH PROVERB
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
BEVERLY SILLS
"He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash
of lightning."
THOMAS FULLER
"Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out."
LIBBIE FUDIM
"Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major
catagories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get
lost."
RUSSEL BAKER
"Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else."
HENRY HAZLITT
"Babies are always more trouble than you thought-and more wonderful."
CHARLES OSGOOD
"When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old
home you missed but your childhood."
SAM EWING
"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that
those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know
it."
GOETHE
"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt if you
don't set any conditions."
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."
AMERICAN PROVERB
"He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right."
COCO CHANEL
"Books are more than books. They are the life, the very heart and core of
ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and
quintessence of their lives."
AMY LOWELL
"The dicontented man finds no easy chair."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
"We work to become, not to aquire."
ELBERT HUBBARD
"Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it
is- a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than
the apes."
TOM MULLEN
"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."
DAN STANFORD
"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on
believing as we already do."
JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON
"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
RICHARD BACH
"In the race for quality, there is no finish line."
DAVID T. KERNS
"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them
almost anything."
HERB GARDNER
"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
MAX DE PREE
"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow
morning, sleep late."
HENRY YOUNGMAN
"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a
neighbor."
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
"Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial."
RICHARD BEN SAPIR
"Do not cut loose from your longings- for what are we without our longings?"
AMOS OZ
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
SARA TEASDALE
"Luck is a matter of preperation meeting opportunity."
OPRAH WINFREY
"There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the
present."
LILLIAN EICHLER WATSON
"The best advice yet given is that you don't have to take it."
LIBBIE FUDIM
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not
succeed."
MARK TWAIN
"You never know when you're making a memory."
RICKIE LEE JONES
"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still exists."
ANNE FRANK
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