Wise Sayings...or Not

[Mellow]

“Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.” Edgar Allan Poe

Wait.... which half?

 

[Daboo]

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
― Thomas Jefferson

 

[ST-DocLizard1]

"IF IGNORANCE IS BLISS.........HOW COME YOU'RE NOT HAPPY?"

 

[docw1]

*My life plan?—start strong then improvise like a pro

*I thought I had direction, turns out I’m just exploring with confidence

*I don't mess up I just add plot twists for fun.

*Life keeps testing me like I owe it homework.

*I planned to be productive…but my energy is on airplane mode

*My brain has ideas…my motivation is buffering.

*I don’t panic, I just laugh and call it a life lesson.

*Still writing my story…and somehow it’s a comedy.

 

[Daboo]

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” -- John F. Kennedy

 

[bdalameda]

Originally from Kahlil Gibran - "Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?"

 

[docw1]

"If not us, who? If not now, when?" — John F. Kennedy

 

[Daboo]

"If not us, who? If not now, when?" — John F. Kennedy

We really could use some men like him today. And enough that believed as he did to follow him.

Another:

• On Freedom: “The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”

Chris

 

[docw1]

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people”—Henry Thomas Buckle

 

[Daboo]

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people”—Henry Thomas Buckle

I have an idea for an event to invite some people over to. What's that make me?

Chris

 

[Daboo]

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin

 

[Stu Padazole]

There are people who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who wonder what happened

 

[docw1]

“The time is always right to do what is right.” —Martin Luther King Jr. (March 1985)

 

[ST-DocLizard1]

"YOU NEVER FAIL TO RISE TO THE LEVEL OF YOUR OWN INCOMPETENCE."

 

[Daboo]

Keep the ship out of the surf and spray... or you'll plunge to destruction. Homer





Actually, Alex Hopper in Battleship

 

[docw1]

“Cultivate humility: You never know when you’re going to need it.” —John Lithgow (May/June 2025)

 

[Daboo]

“Treating stupid is really hard, and it becomes a real problem." - Dr Oz

 

[docw1]

“A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.” —Dave Barry (Reader’s Digest Quotable Quotes, 2013)

 

[Daboo]

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

 

[docw1]

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou (August 2013)