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“First of all know this, that in the last days ridiculers will come with their ridicule, proceding according to their own desires and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his?  Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep in death, all things are continuing exactly as they were from creation’s beginning.”– Apostle Peter – 2 Pet. 3:3,4 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist or an old optimist. – Mark Twain

Borrow money from pessimists.  They don’t ever expect it back. – Benjamin Disraeli

Two things are infinite—the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not too sure about the universe. – Albert Einstein

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. – Marilyn Monroe

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool, and he who does not is a slave. – William Drummond

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. – H. L. Mencken

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford

A word to the wise ain’t necessary—it’s the stupid ones who never take advice. – Bill Cosby

Procrastinate Now! – Ellen DeGeneres

LOVE STORY’S venality and infantilism makes us reach for a barf bag instead of a Kleenex. – Judith Crist

“You ain’t goin’ nowhere son.  You oughta go on back to drivin’ a truck in Memphis.” – Jim Denny of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville to Elvis Presley in 1954 after his audition.

Failure has a thousand explanations.  Success doesn’t need one. – Alec Guiness

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” – Charles H. Duel (Retiring Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899)

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain. – Lily Tomlin

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in Paradise and look like your passport photo. – Erma Bombeck      

Some people can foul up a two car parade. – Zig Zigler                                      

Procrastination is like a credit card.  It’s a lot of fun until you get the bill. – Chris Parker

“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.  Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” – David Sarnoff’s associates on radio future in 1920.

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“These men are murmurers, complainers about their lot in life, following their own desires, and their mouths make grandiose boasts, while they are flattering others for their own benefit.” – Disciple Jude – Jude vs. 16 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES

We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. – Decca Recording Company in rejecting a recording contact with the Beatles.

Stress is an ignorant state.  It believes everything is an emergency. – Natalie Goldberg      

Defenders never gain new ground. – Ira Hayes    

Don’t take guilt trips.  Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is. – George Carlin

Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry.  Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. – P. J. O’Rourke

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it’s a forgery. – Morris Bender

Many of life’s failures belong to people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison                                                          

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. – Jules Renard

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. – Henry Ford

I think there is a world market for about 5 computers. – Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM. – 1943

Life is full of misery, loneliness and suffering—and it’s all over much too soon. –Woody Allen 

I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. – Paul Harvey                  

Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer a world where people consume without the tedium of labor.  Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due…and we wonder shy we’re a debtor nation! – Molly Haskell – CONSUMING DESIRES

Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it. – Chinese Proverb

A nation is a society united by a delusion of its ancestry, and by a common hatred of its neighbors. – William Ralph Inge   

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. – David Rockefeller

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“But they refused to listen to me, and they did not incline their ear.  Instead, they were stubborn, and they acted worse than their forefathers.” – Prophet Jeremiah (to renegade, disobedient nation of Israel and Judah) – Jer. 7:26 – The BIBLE

Too much self-centered attitude brings isolation.  Result: loneliness, fear, anger.  The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering. – Delai Lama     

Every tub sits on its own bottom. – Zig Zigler

“Low self-esteem group will meet Thursday at 7:00 P.M.  Please use back door.” – Sign on an Australian church bulletin board

A fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to us who do. – Harold Coffin

“The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.  The device is inherently of no value to us.” - 0ffered the patent in 1876.

Depression is merely anger without the enthusiasm. – Larry, the Cable Guy

You can’t change the past but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. – Right on

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing in fine print is ever good news. – Andy Rooney

We have been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor.  We are cleaning up the air, but polluted the soul.  We have conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.  We write more, but learn less.  We plan more, but accomplish less.  We’ve learn to rush, but not to wait.  We build more computers to hold more information, but we communicate less and less. – George Carlin

Some say baseball is our national sport.  Not me.  It’s gossip. – Erma Bombeck

Doing nothing is very hard to do…how do you know when you’re finished? – Leslie Nielsen

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a note of pessimism.  Shadows seem to be closing in.  The final conclusion isn’t that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery in the garden. – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Originality is undetected plagiarism. – William Ralph Inge       

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread the shroud of gloom over entire nations. – Gordon B. Hinkley

When you get a certain age, a juicy lawsuit is the only thing that gets you up in the morning. – Gore Vidal

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“Hear this, you foolish and senseless people.  They have eyes but cannot see; they have ears but cannot hear.” – Prophet Jeremiah (about hand-made idols) – Jer. 5:21 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES

The most destructive criticism is indifference. – E. W. Howe

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be goverened, when that little wisdom is its own. – William Ralph Inge          

Remember, behind every cynic is a romantic, and probably an injured one. – Glenn Beck

I’m at the age when my back goes out more than I do. – Phyllis Diller

Glance into the rearview mirror (past mistakes) but don’t gaze into it or you will lose sight of the future. – Anonymous

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly or quiet.  It requires acertain relish for confusion. – Molly Ivins

Success is a matter of luck.  Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. – R.A. Dickson     

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something beautiful, or discover something that is true. – William Ralph Inge

Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities.  Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wished they had missed. – Lily Tomlin

An optimist is a person who sees the green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red spotlight…the truly wise person is colorblind. – Albert Schweitzer

True faith is the belief in the reality of absolute values. – William Ralph Inge    

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by men. – William Ralph Inge