[George Bieniaszek]

Originally Posted by 2BNTV

"Experience is the best teacher, but wisdom is learning form other people's experiences".

Use to use that one on my son growing up, as he would listen and tend to not make mistakes, that could be avoided.

There's another quote that starts the same way --

"Experience is the best teacher;
It gives you the test first, then teaches you the lesson"

[tomwed]

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." - Groucho Marx

This makes me laugh inside whenever anyone asks me to join their club.

[springfield]

"There are no strangers here, only friends we haven't met"
This was always posted in my classroom. Now that I am in TV, it is very true here as well.

[John_W]

"Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending."

From the film Limelight, written & directed by Charlie Chaplin 1952.

[LatDoc]

I told them the truth and they fell for it.
Author forgotten.

[Villages PL]

"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are." -Talmud

[tomwed]

Originally Posted by springfield

"There are no strangers here, only friends we haven't met"
This was always posted in my classroom. Now that I am in TV, it is very true here as well.

I use to teach electric shop. It was a friendly classroom too. You reminded me of something. I glued a big blob of melted solder on one of the lenses of a pair of safety glasses. I mounted the glasses on the safety glass cabinet door.

The sign below the glasses read:

IT COULD HAVE BEEN HIS EYE!

You couldn't look at that combination without laughing.
The kids wore the glasses.
I enjoyed the drama of the sign and making up stories about how the solder jumped up in the air, was heading for the eye and safely landed on the glasses.

[Halibut]

"Better you than me" An old sage once said

That made me snort-laugh.

[Villages PL]

"Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes." -Jonathan Katz

[Aandjmassage]

"Looks like you're going to go broke saving money" A guy named Bob said this to me when I was telling what a great deal I got buying something.

[GMIJFI]

Change: Take it by the hand before it grabs you by the neck. Winston Churchill

[getdul981]

Don't try and confuse me with facts. My mind is already made up.

[2BNTV]

Half the world doesn't want to hear your problems, and the other half is glad, that it is happening to you.

[senior citizen]

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." PLATO

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."

Sam Levenson (often misattributed to Audrey Hepburn)


"To belittle, you have to be little." Khalil Gibran


"We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love." Mother Teresa

(all of below quotes are also by Mother Teresa of Calcutta; all useful on life's journey)


"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."


Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.


It was never between you and them anyway.


Mother Teresa
　

[Patty55]

"That ship has sailed." Don't know who said it first but I say it often.