Beaumont’s Quotations
“A smile a day helps to chase the gloomies away!” -David Hugh Beaumont
“About the time you start to think you are fairly sane, you come to the realization that you are only somewhere between being a nutty minimalist and a crazy hoarder in this world.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“All around the world, there are people who are making real the things they first created in their imaginations, and so can you.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“All things in life tend to come to us in one of two forms, either as a blessing or as a lesson.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Anything can happen anywhere anytime to anyone.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Are people who say they do not like children saying that they do not like themselves in earlier form?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“At first, we copied nature in our art . . . and as our species sought to improve . . . we copied nature in our technology . . . and then off to the stars we sped.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Ba + 2(na) = Banana.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Becoming an expert is possible if you are willing to start out knowing nothing about a subject.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Between wishes and realizations lie long hours of effort.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Children must be protected against the dangers and unpleasantness of life until they are physically strong enough and mentally tough enough to fend for themselves. They must be taught how to handle difficulties by people who know how to do so.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Do your best with every day, every hour, every minute, and every fraction thereof, because the clock is running down, and in about the blink of an eye, your time on this Earth will be used up and gone.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Each of us knows a little, and together, we know a lot.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Every person is right on some things and wrong on other things.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Everybody tells us what we cannot do. It would be a nice change if people would tell us what we can do.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Few poor people are criminals, but most criminals are poor people, because despite all the glamour associated with them as they are portrayed in popular culture and in the entertainment media, the majority of criminals are miserable people who have failed even at being criminals. Only a tiny number of criminals actually become rich, and they are found mostly in politics and other types of organized crime. By and large, crime does not pay.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Fools heap praise and sympathy upon evil men and evil women.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Fools will not be convinced.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“‘Forever and always’ are words found within every good dream.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Forget about your worst failures and concentrate on your best efforts.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“How very little even the learned and wise know.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Humans are the ultimate Swiss army knives of the animal kingdom.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“I am as God made me, as is every being and thing in Creation. Some stray from the straightway and end up on crooked paths, and I must take care that I not do so similarly.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“I am contemplating starting The Center for the Study of Things that Don’t Matter . . . I just need a large cash grant from the federal government.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“I am too busy being odd to worry about getting even.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If I were being chased in the forest by a big ferocious animal that wanted to eat me, how could I not take that as a kind of compliment?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If water had a flavor, what color would it sound like?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If we make places for the good in our world and strive to keep them so, there will be less room for the bad in our world.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If you are poor, never allow the rich to push you into a hole and tell you that is where you will live your life. If they try, stand up to your full height, and knock the rich off their pedestal.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If you spend an hour watching television or otherwise entertaining yourself, at the end of the hour you have nothing, except maybe something to talk about with your friends who have also used an hour doing something similar. If you spend an hour writing a poem or building a chair or helping a child to understand reading and math, at the end of the hour you will have something of value and something to talk about with your friends who might also find that they want to do something similar - inspired by you.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If you want to, you can.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If you would like to change things in your life that seem too big to change all at once, could you be happy changing them a little at a time?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“In order to bounce back after a fall, it helps to be somewhat elastic.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“In the beginning, all was darkness. Then came the light, and it has been increasing ever since.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Inner peace, outer chaos . . . all is well!” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Is it better to have a bee in one’s bonnet than bats in one’s belfry?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“It is not enough for me to just do the things that maintain my life; I must do the things that improve my life.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“It is often little more than luck in circumstances that makes the difference between a rich man and a poor man, a peasant and a nobleman, a happy person and a sad person, but people are strangely unaware of this, and suppose it is entirely due to some superiority or inferiority of the intellect or physique or other attribute that accounts for the differences among persons.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Let’s build a world in which things work for people, rather than people working for things.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Let’s not merely dream of a better life and a better world . . . let’s start creating the good with our thoughts and words and deeds.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“May you fear no outer darkness, and know no lack of inner light.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Nobody who is homeless or poor wants to be that way. We could give to them the help that would allow them to stand up on their own two feet and provide for themselves, but instead we give them only the kind of help that will keep them from dying. We are not good human beings, are we?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“One cannot argue with ignorance.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“One person’s danger is another person’s excitement.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“One way to become famous, or at least recorded in history, is to place everything you say in quotation marks. Eventually people who collect quotations will find what you have said and add it to their collections, and then you will be all set.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“People have advised me not to talk to crazy people, so now I only talk to myself.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“People will attack your character or falsely accuse you of wrongdoing, not because you are at fault, but because they are trying to gain control of you.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Predict doom, and people flock to you and repeat your predictions everywhere to everyone. Predict joy, and you may not have even a single person who will acknowledge it. Thus we see the popularity of prophets of doom and the obscurity of prophets of everything otherwise.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Science went for a walk one fine day, hiked up a hillside, reached the top, and found . . . religion.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Some people are so silly that when they see an imperfection in another person, and then gloatingly point it out to everyone, they think they have proven their own worthiness.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Someday I hope to be rich enough to buy my way out of poverty.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Sometimes I think that I am a dog that thinks it is human . . . look, a squeaky toy!” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Strangers greeting one another is so rare in many places now days that if you make eye contact and say, ‘Hello,’ to a stranger as you walk past each other on a sidewalk, you might be mistaken by that stranger as being either a devil or an angel.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Studies and polls prove nothing and are always invalid; only rightly done scientific research has a chance of proving anything or of being valid.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Success belongs to the doers.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“The challenges of life never cease, but our ability to face them gets better as time goes by.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“The humorous remains a bone of contention, for while some find its name to be funny, others do not.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“The key to understanding some people is to think of parrots, animals that simply repeat words that they do not actually know the meanings of, and of monkeys, animals which, without much thought, mimic the behaviors of others.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“The prettiest flowers take root in the lowly dirt.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“The things that get done are the things that get started.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“The world has no time for an idler. An idler is a person who wastes his or her time in doing nothing of value, and that person will have you doing the same if you spend time with him or her. Avoid the idler as you would the gossiper, the troublemaker, and the mongers of fear or hate or blame.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“There are certain groups that in order to be accepted into, one must do acts or say words that are repulsive, evil, or unwise. If you find yourself unable to join such groups of people, consider yourself fortunate to be of better quality than them, even if you are the only person like yourself that you can find anywhere in life.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who make that which is good, and those who break that which is good.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Thinking ahead is what gets you ahead.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“This is your life . . . make the milliseconds count.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“To live in the past is to live in memory. To live in the future is to live in imagination. To live in the present is to live in the point of creation.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Together, we are more than the sum of our individual selves.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We all are angry sometimes, just try not to let yourself get to the point of enjoying it too much.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We are all on the way to becoming something. If you choose, you can be on your way to becoming something other than only older. It is your choice, and entirely up to you.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We attract into our lives what we think about.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We have all made our share of mistakes, and we all have shortcomings and imperfections. In fact, those of us who are doing anything in life continue to make mistakes, and we are aware of our shortcomings and imperfections, every day. In time, we learn to live with all of it and we learn to not dwell on it, because it is the results we achieve from continuing to try after we have made mistakes, and in spite of all else, that is our focus.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We have not failings, but learnings.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We speak of a ‘sense of humor,’ but how often do we speak of a ‘sense of beauty,’ a ‘sense of fairness,’ a ‘sense of order,’ a ‘sense of right and wrong,’ or of any other similar senses?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We succeed by helping others.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“What matters is who you are and what you are becoming, not who you once were.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“When nothing goes right, go left. It sounds flippant, but it means when nothing goes right, go another direction.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Whenever I meet someone, I try to visualize that person with makeup and a colorful wig and funny clothes . . . and if they look or act like they could make a good clown, they have passed ‘The Clown Test.’ In time, I might apply other tests to them, like a morality test, and a hard worker test.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Whether we are twenty or eighty years of age, the time to do anything is now, while we still have the breath of life in us and the beating of our hearts. We each receive only one chance to live a life.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“‘Which way am I?’ asked the dizzy man as he got off the merry-go-round of life.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“While millions work to create what they believe are better works of fiction, a tiny number of people are working to create what will be a better reality.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Who needs rhetorical questions, except perhaps hypothetical people?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“You are living as if this is all there is.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“You were not meant to fit in, because you are meant to stand out. You are like the yellow flower in the field of green grass; let others be the grass, and let yourself be the flower.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“You will have to fight against dishonesty, laziness, and ignorance always in all places for your whole lifetime, in others and in yourself.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“You win some, you lose some - and then there are the people who always seem to win - how do they do it?” -David Hugh Beaumont
David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.
“A smile a day helps to chase the gloomies away!” -David Hugh Beaumont
“About the time you start to think you are fairly sane, you come to the realization that you are only somewhere between being a nutty minimalist and a crazy hoarder in this world.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“All around the world, there are people who are making real the things they first created in their imaginations, and so can you.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“All things in life tend to come to us in one of two forms, either as a blessing or as a lesson.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Anything can happen anywhere anytime to anyone.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Are people who say they do not like children saying that they do not like themselves in earlier form?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“At first, we copied nature in our art . . . and as our species sought to improve . . . we copied nature in our technology . . . and then off to the stars we sped.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Ba + 2(na) = Banana.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Becoming an expert is possible if you are willing to start out knowing nothing about a subject.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Between wishes and realizations lie long hours of effort.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Children must be protected against the dangers and unpleasantness of life until they are physically strong enough and mentally tough enough to fend for themselves. They must be taught how to handle difficulties by people who know how to do so.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Do your best with every day, every hour, every minute, and every fraction thereof, because the clock is running down, and in about the blink of an eye, your time on this Earth will be used up and gone.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Each of us knows a little, and together, we know a lot.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Every person is right on some things and wrong on other things.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Everybody tells us what we cannot do. It would be a nice change if people would tell us what we can do.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Few poor people are criminals, but most criminals are poor people, because despite all the glamour associated with them as they are portrayed in popular culture and in the entertainment media, the majority of criminals are miserable people who have failed even at being criminals. Only a tiny number of criminals actually become rich, and they are found mostly in politics and other types of organized crime. By and large, crime does not pay.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Fools heap praise and sympathy upon evil men and evil women.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Fools will not be convinced.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“‘Forever and always’ are words found within every good dream.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Forget about your worst failures and concentrate on your best efforts.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“How very little even the learned and wise know.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Humans are the ultimate Swiss army knives of the animal kingdom.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“I am as God made me, as is every being and thing in Creation. Some stray from the straightway and end up on crooked paths, and I must take care that I not do so similarly.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“I am contemplating starting The Center for the Study of Things that Don’t Matter . . . I just need a large cash grant from the federal government.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“I am too busy being odd to worry about getting even.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If I were being chased in the forest by a big ferocious animal that wanted to eat me, how could I not take that as a kind of compliment?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If water had a flavor, what color would it sound like?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If we make places for the good in our world and strive to keep them so, there will be less room for the bad in our world.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If you are poor, never allow the rich to push you into a hole and tell you that is where you will live your life. If they try, stand up to your full height, and knock the rich off their pedestal.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If you spend an hour watching television or otherwise entertaining yourself, at the end of the hour you have nothing, except maybe something to talk about with your friends who have also used an hour doing something similar. If you spend an hour writing a poem or building a chair or helping a child to understand reading and math, at the end of the hour you will have something of value and something to talk about with your friends who might also find that they want to do something similar - inspired by you.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If you want to, you can.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“If you would like to change things in your life that seem too big to change all at once, could you be happy changing them a little at a time?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“In order to bounce back after a fall, it helps to be somewhat elastic.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“In the beginning, all was darkness. Then came the light, and it has been increasing ever since.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Inner peace, outer chaos . . . all is well!” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Is it better to have a bee in one’s bonnet than bats in one’s belfry?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“It is not enough for me to just do the things that maintain my life; I must do the things that improve my life.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“It is often little more than luck in circumstances that makes the difference between a rich man and a poor man, a peasant and a nobleman, a happy person and a sad person, but people are strangely unaware of this, and suppose it is entirely due to some superiority or inferiority of the intellect or physique or other attribute that accounts for the differences among persons.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Let’s build a world in which things work for people, rather than people working for things.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Let’s not merely dream of a better life and a better world . . . let’s start creating the good with our thoughts and words and deeds.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“May you fear no outer darkness, and know no lack of inner light.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Nobody who is homeless or poor wants to be that way. We could give to them the help that would allow them to stand up on their own two feet and provide for themselves, but instead we give them only the kind of help that will keep them from dying. We are not good human beings, are we?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“One cannot argue with ignorance.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“One person’s danger is another person’s excitement.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“One way to become famous, or at least recorded in history, is to place everything you say in quotation marks. Eventually people who collect quotations will find what you have said and add it to their collections, and then you will be all set.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“People have advised me not to talk to crazy people, so now I only talk to myself.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“People will attack your character or falsely accuse you of wrongdoing, not because you are at fault, but because they are trying to gain control of you.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Predict doom, and people flock to you and repeat your predictions everywhere to everyone. Predict joy, and you may not have even a single person who will acknowledge it. Thus we see the popularity of prophets of doom and the obscurity of prophets of everything otherwise.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Science went for a walk one fine day, hiked up a hillside, reached the top, and found . . . religion.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Some people are so silly that when they see an imperfection in another person, and then gloatingly point it out to everyone, they think they have proven their own worthiness.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Someday I hope to be rich enough to buy my way out of poverty.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Sometimes I think that I am a dog that thinks it is human . . . look, a squeaky toy!” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Strangers greeting one another is so rare in many places now days that if you make eye contact and say, ‘Hello,’ to a stranger as you walk past each other on a sidewalk, you might be mistaken by that stranger as being either a devil or an angel.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Studies and polls prove nothing and are always invalid; only rightly done scientific research has a chance of proving anything or of being valid.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Success belongs to the doers.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“The challenges of life never cease, but our ability to face them gets better as time goes by.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“The humorous remains a bone of contention, for while some find its name to be funny, others do not.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“The key to understanding some people is to think of parrots, animals that simply repeat words that they do not actually know the meanings of, and of monkeys, animals which, without much thought, mimic the behaviors of others.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“The prettiest flowers take root in the lowly dirt.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“The things that get done are the things that get started.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“The world has no time for an idler. An idler is a person who wastes his or her time in doing nothing of value, and that person will have you doing the same if you spend time with him or her. Avoid the idler as you would the gossiper, the troublemaker, and the mongers of fear or hate or blame.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“There are certain groups that in order to be accepted into, one must do acts or say words that are repulsive, evil, or unwise. If you find yourself unable to join such groups of people, consider yourself fortunate to be of better quality than them, even if you are the only person like yourself that you can find anywhere in life.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who make that which is good, and those who break that which is good.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Thinking ahead is what gets you ahead.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“This is your life . . . make the milliseconds count.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“To live in the past is to live in memory. To live in the future is to live in imagination. To live in the present is to live in the point of creation.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Together, we are more than the sum of our individual selves.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We all are angry sometimes, just try not to let yourself get to the point of enjoying it too much.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We are all on the way to becoming something. If you choose, you can be on your way to becoming something other than only older. It is your choice, and entirely up to you.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We attract into our lives what we think about.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We have all made our share of mistakes, and we all have shortcomings and imperfections. In fact, those of us who are doing anything in life continue to make mistakes, and we are aware of our shortcomings and imperfections, every day. In time, we learn to live with all of it and we learn to not dwell on it, because it is the results we achieve from continuing to try after we have made mistakes, and in spite of all else, that is our focus.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We have not failings, but learnings.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We speak of a ‘sense of humor,’ but how often do we speak of a ‘sense of beauty,’ a ‘sense of fairness,’ a ‘sense of order,’ a ‘sense of right and wrong,’ or of any other similar senses?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“We succeed by helping others.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“What matters is who you are and what you are becoming, not who you once were.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“When nothing goes right, go left. It sounds flippant, but it means when nothing goes right, go another direction.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Whenever I meet someone, I try to visualize that person with makeup and a colorful wig and funny clothes . . . and if they look or act like they could make a good clown, they have passed ‘The Clown Test.’ In time, I might apply other tests to them, like a morality test, and a hard worker test.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Whether we are twenty or eighty years of age, the time to do anything is now, while we still have the breath of life in us and the beating of our hearts. We each receive only one chance to live a life.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“‘Which way am I?’ asked the dizzy man as he got off the merry-go-round of life.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“While millions work to create what they believe are better works of fiction, a tiny number of people are working to create what will be a better reality.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“Who needs rhetorical questions, except perhaps hypothetical people?” -David Hugh Beaumont
“You are living as if this is all there is.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“You were not meant to fit in, because you are meant to stand out. You are like the yellow flower in the field of green grass; let others be the grass, and let yourself be the flower.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“You will have to fight against dishonesty, laziness, and ignorance always in all places for your whole lifetime, in others and in yourself.” -David Hugh Beaumont
“You win some, you lose some - and then there are the people who always seem to win - how do they do it?” -David Hugh Beaumont
David Hugh Beaumont was born in 1966 in the United States of America. He is a website content creator, a writer, a researcher, and an editor.
