2007-02-28 13:44:10 · 10 answers · asked by Second Son 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"One who won't read books holds no advantage over one who can't read books." - Mark Twain
I said it to my niece in an effort to convince her to stay in school and earn her Masters Degree, because in her particular field of study, her potential earnings will increase almost ten-fold with a Masters. Her aunt, my sister-in-law, was attempting to tell her that college is over-rated, because she (the aunt) makes more money without a college degree than a lot of people who have a degree. So, I quoted Twain in an effort to convince her to stay in school and earn her MD. It pissed off the aunt, but I think it worked, since the niece has since applied to Med School.
2007-02-28 13:48:23 · answer #1 · answered by Colonel Angus 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
1) To the world, you may be one person; but to one person, you may be the world!
2)Bloom where you are planted.
3) Be yourself. Who else is better qualified.
4) A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
5) Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
6) You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
7) More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
8) A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
9) In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
10) A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
2007-03-02 11:45:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love all Confucius and Twain quotes..my all time favorites are
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."
Einstein hung this quote on the wall of his office for 35 years..
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
2007-02-28 21:54:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." ~confucius
“When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"”~Sydney J. Harris
“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.” ~Mark Twain
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
just a few of the ones i love!!
2007-03-01 23:41:21 · answer #4 · answered by jenbee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen from a bough, never having felt sorry for itself".
2007-03-01 00:14:58 · answer #5 · answered by scotty w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love Michael Jordan's words, " I succeed because I have failed."
These words are inspirational
2007-02-28 22:01:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the golden rule
2007-02-28 21:53:22 · answer #7 · answered by elona 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you feeling lucky punk do you?
2007-02-28 23:02:49 · answer #8 · answered by ray 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Use horticulture in a sentence. 'You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.'"
I don't know who said that, but I love it.
2007-02-28 21:53:32 · answer #9 · answered by Veronica Almighty 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Whether you think you can, or think you can't...You're right."
Henry Ford
2007-02-28 21:54:58 · answer #10 · answered by Navydoc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋