| Favorite Trivia – QUOTES |
| “It’s no use crying over spilt milk: it only makes it salty for the cat.”
Anonymous (The Pocket Book of Quotations) |
| “What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.”
Hugh Mulligan |
 “Looking for a good time? Call someone else.”
refrigerator magnet |
| “Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.”
Edward Steichen |
| “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
Farrah Gray |
| “You matter. . . I mean not to me, but to someone.”
refrigerator magnet |
| “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”
C.S. Lewis |
| “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot |
| “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
John D. Rockefeller |
| “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
Henry Ford |
| “Taste your words before you spit them out.”
Andrew Card |
| “Wonder is when your mouth mechanically opens in awe.”
Patty Martino Alspaugh |
| “I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ’em to match the men.”
Eliot |
| “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”
Philip Stanhope
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| “If my cup doesn’t run over it is only because I am always drinking.”
Diane Arbus |
| “There is another world, but it is in this one.”
W.B. Yeats |
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“For the purpose of training my memory I have observed the custom of the Pythagoreans in recalling at evening, whatever I have said or heard or done in the course of the day.” [De Senectute., I, 11.] Cicero |
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“I appreciate all I have and all I don’t have.” Patty Martino Alspaugh |
| “If you’re shaking it more than twice, you’re playing with it.”
guy in line in front of me waiting at porta potties (food & wine festival) |
| “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
Henry David Thoreau |
| “Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| A prostitute says regarding the difficulties of child rearing:
“Once the state gets ahold of your kids, there’s nothing to do but say a prayer and make some more.” Patrick deWitt – Ablutions |
| “Work so hard that one day your signature will be called an autograph.”
Tim Notke |
| “My mother taught us long ago, she would say to me, ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.'”
Kamala Harris |
| “Don’t be afraid of perfection. You will never attain it.”
Salvador Dali – Diary of A Genius |
| “Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”
William James |
| “The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
Oscar Wilde |
| “Acts of God seem to strengthen us, but acts of man eat away at us.”
Patt Morrison (Pat in the Hat, as Johnny calls her) |
| “What others criticize you for, cultivate: It is you.”
Jean Cocteau |
| “You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.”
W. Somerset Maugham |
| “My life has just spun along, sort of like a wheel on a car that somebody else is driving. I’ve just gone with it.”
Debbie Reynolds |
| “It’s such a beautiful clear night I don’t even need my glasses.”
Patty Martino Alspaugh |
| “Sometimes I just want to take all the boys in my school and fry them in deep fat.” [January 5, 1974]
Margaret Sartor – Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets, and Growing Up in the 1970s |
| “Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.”
Jorge Luis Borges |
| “…For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.” William Shakespeare – Sonnet 94 |
| “I’m not dating anymore. I’m 80. I’ve closed up shop down there.”
Jane Fonda |
| “A woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.”
Ambrose Bierce |
| “The artist experiences ugliness; the philosopher, lies; the moralist has to cope with depravity; the saint with Satan.” [January 7, 1921]
Hugo Ball – Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary |
| “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand |
 “I don’t like morning people . . . or mornings . . . or people.”
refrigerator magnet |
| “A guest is like a fresh fish; the first day delicious, the second day a bit boring, and the third day a stink.”
M.F.K. Fisher – Sister Age |
| Socrates, while strolling through the marketplace, is said to have exclaimed joyfully, “How many things there are that I do not want.” (My thoughts are along a similar vein when I shop at Asian markets for sushi and other Asian delights, albeit with a slight twist: “How many things there are that I do not know that I want.”) |
| “When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.”
Dale Carnegie – How to Win Friends and Influence People |
| “. . . so many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”
Norton Juster – The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth |
| “Sometimes you have to play the game to change the game.”
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh (Muslim Girl) |
| “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
Tony Robbins |
| “I live by a man’s code, designed to fit a man’s world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman’s first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.”
Carole Lombard |
| “I’d rather be married to a fat, bald man than be alone.”
Coco Chanel |
| “‘I could never sleep in the same bed with Loel,’ she [Gloria Guinness] told Noël Coward over lunch at Piencourt, the Guinness château in Normandy. ‘He farts too much.'”
Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins – The Power of Style |
| “Anyone looking to invest in Tesla’s future must first be comfortable with its present.”
RBC Capital Markets equity analyst Joseph Spak |
| “There is only one way under high Heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.”
Dale Carnegie – How to Win Friends and Influence People |
| “The supreme vice is shallowness.”
Oscar Wilde |
| “The only pets I have are pet peeves.” “Sticks and stones will break my bones and words will always hurt me.”
“Let me be me or let me be.” “Different chairs for different derrières.” “You can be right, and you can be dead right!” “Bless me Father for I have sneezed.” “I have it made in the shade, but I have more fun in the sun.” “Some things are better left unsaid.” “Things said in jest are half meant.” “Every memory has a trigger.” Patty Martino Alspaugh |