“The reason why fear is so powerful is because you believe it to be stronger than you.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975) at https://stevemaraboli.net/): “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (2010), page 36
“Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.” -Author Unknown: “Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World” (11 November 2008) videogame, words of characters Aster and Richter Abend
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The Reality Of Fear
You’re not scared of the dark;
You’re scared of what’s in it.
You’re not afraid of heights;
You’re afraid of falling.
You’re not afraid of the people around you;
You’re afraid of rejection or mistreatment.
You’re not afraid of love;
You’re afraid of not being lovable.
By Author Unknown
“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.” -George R. R. Martin (George Raymond Richard Martin (born 1948)): “A Game of Thrones” (1 August 1996) novel
“If you’re scared, just holler and you’ll find it ain’t so lonesome out there.” -Joe Sugden (Joseph ‘Joe’ Sugden (1870 - 1959))
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“The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness, not to stop your progress.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975) at https://stevemaraboli.net/: “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (2010), page 16
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” -Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890))
“I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942))
“Try to be fearless, because fear can inhibit you and keep you from a life.” -Miranda Weese
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” -Ambrose Redmoon (Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon (pseudonym of James Neil Hollingworth (1933 - 1996)))
“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” -Caroline Myss (born 1952)
“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.” -Alice M. Swaim (Alice Mackenzie Swaim)
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A lamb appears a lion, and we fear
Each bush we see’s a bear.
-Francis Quarles: “Emblems,” Book I, Emblem XIII, line 19
“I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Crime and Punishment” (1866), Part I, Chapter 1 (1866)
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“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown (Leslie Calvin ‘Les’ Brown (born 1945))
“We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. ‘Oh, by getting up every time I fell down,’ he answered.” -David Seabury (1885 - 1960)
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” -Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
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“To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.” -Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (1515 - 1582))
“Action cancels fear.” -Silver Rose
“What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.” -Author Unknown
Fear is a slinking cat I find
Beneath the lilacs of my mind.
-Sophie Tunnell (Sophia Letitia Tunnell (1884 - 1936))
“Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.” -Author Unknown: “Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World” (11 November 2008) videogame, words of characters Aster and Richter Abend
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The Reality Of Fear
You’re not scared of the dark;
You’re scared of what’s in it.
You’re not afraid of heights;
You’re afraid of falling.
You’re not afraid of the people around you;
You’re afraid of rejection or mistreatment.
You’re not afraid of love;
You’re afraid of not being lovable.
By Author Unknown
“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.” -George R. R. Martin (George Raymond Richard Martin (born 1948)): “A Game of Thrones” (1 August 1996) novel
“If you’re scared, just holler and you’ll find it ain’t so lonesome out there.” -Joe Sugden (Joseph ‘Joe’ Sugden (1870 - 1959))
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“The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness, not to stop your progress.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975) at https://stevemaraboli.net/: “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (2010), page 16
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” -Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853 - 1890))
“I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942))
“Try to be fearless, because fear can inhibit you and keep you from a life.” -Miranda Weese
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” -Ambrose Redmoon (Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon (pseudonym of James Neil Hollingworth (1933 - 1996)))
“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” -Caroline Myss (born 1952)
“Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.” -Alice M. Swaim (Alice Mackenzie Swaim)
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A lamb appears a lion, and we fear
Each bush we see’s a bear.
-Francis Quarles: “Emblems,” Book I, Emblem XIII, line 19
“I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Crime and Punishment” (1866), Part I, Chapter 1 (1866)
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“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown (Leslie Calvin ‘Les’ Brown (born 1945))
“We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. ‘Oh, by getting up every time I fell down,’ he answered.” -David Seabury (1885 - 1960)
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” -Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
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“To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.” -Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (1515 - 1582))
“Action cancels fear.” -Silver Rose
“What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.” -Author Unknown
Fear is a slinking cat I find
Beneath the lilacs of my mind.
-Sophie Tunnell (Sophia Letitia Tunnell (1884 - 1936))
“Fear is incomplete knowledge.” -Agatha Christie (Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (1890 - 1976))
“A lot of people are afraid of heights; not me, I’m afraid of widths.” -Steven Wright (Stephen Alexander Wright (born 1955)): “Steven Wright Special” (1985)
Heights Made Him Dizzy
There was a young fellow so frail
He could fly on a kite - as the tail.
That gave him a view
From Maine to Peru;
But when he looked down he turned pale!
By John Ciardi (John Anthony Ciardi (1916 - 1986))
“So what are you afraid of? What is holding you back? What is it that stands in your way?” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993): “Power of the Plus Factor: The Little Extra That Makes You a Winner” (1987)
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“Fear always springs from ignorance.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “The American Scholar”
“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.” -Brendan Francis (Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (1923 - 1964))
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” -Seth Godin (born 1960)
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Do not let fear confine your life
Inside a shell of doubt;
A turtle never moves until
His head is sticking out.
-Charles Ghigna
“You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.” -Dolly Parton (Dolly Rebecca Parton (born 1946))
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” -Sheryl Sandberg (Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born 1969)): “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead” (2013)
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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” -Mary Anne Radmacher (born 1957)
“Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.” -Hannah Arendt (Johanna ‘Hannah’ Arendt (1906 - 1975))
“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “Journals” (1838 - 1859), ‘September 7, 1851’
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anaïs Nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (1903 - 1977)): “Diary” (1969)
“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.” -Michael Pritchard
“FEAR is an acronym in the English language for ‘False Evidence Appearing Real.’” -Neale Donald Walsch (born 1943)
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“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.” -Author Unknown: German proverb
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): as quoted in Joannes Stobaeus: “Florilegium”
“F.E.A.R. has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Risk.’ You decide.” -Author Unknown
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“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” -Robert Anthony (Robert Newton Anthony (1916 - 2006))
“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt (Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)): inaugural address (4 March 1933), as published in “The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933” (1938), page 11
Overheard: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself . . . and spiders!
“A lot of people are afraid of heights; not me, I’m afraid of widths.” -Steven Wright (Stephen Alexander Wright (born 1955)): “Steven Wright Special” (1985)
Heights Made Him Dizzy
There was a young fellow so frail
He could fly on a kite - as the tail.
That gave him a view
From Maine to Peru;
But when he looked down he turned pale!
By John Ciardi (John Anthony Ciardi (1916 - 1986))
“So what are you afraid of? What is holding you back? What is it that stands in your way?” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993): “Power of the Plus Factor: The Little Extra That Makes You a Winner” (1987)
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“Fear always springs from ignorance.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “The American Scholar”
“Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.” -Brendan Francis (Brendan Francis Aidan Behan (1923 - 1964))
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” -Seth Godin (born 1960)
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Do not let fear confine your life
Inside a shell of doubt;
A turtle never moves until
His head is sticking out.
-Charles Ghigna
“You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.” -Dolly Parton (Dolly Rebecca Parton (born 1946))
“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” -Sheryl Sandberg (Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born 1969)): “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead” (2013)
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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” -Mary Anne Radmacher (born 1957)
“Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.” -Hannah Arendt (Johanna ‘Hannah’ Arendt (1906 - 1975))
“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “Journals” (1838 - 1859), ‘September 7, 1851’
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anaïs Nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (1903 - 1977)): “Diary” (1969)
“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.” -Michael Pritchard
“FEAR is an acronym in the English language for ‘False Evidence Appearing Real.’” -Neale Donald Walsch (born 1943)
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“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.” -Author Unknown: German proverb
“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): as quoted in Joannes Stobaeus: “Florilegium”
“F.E.A.R. has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Risk.’ You decide.” -Author Unknown
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“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” -Robert Anthony (Robert Newton Anthony (1916 - 2006))
“Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt (Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)): inaugural address (4 March 1933), as published in “The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933” (1938), page 11
Overheard: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself . . . and spiders!
“The fears we don’t face become our limits.” -Robin Sharma (Robin S. Sharma (born 1965))
“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.” -Ruth Gendler (Janet Ruth Gendler, also known as J. Ruth Gendler (born 1954)) at www.ruthgendler.com
“Sometimes it takes courage - maybe all the courage you’ve got - to just live life.” -Douglas Preston (Douglas Jerome Preston (born 1956)) and Lincoln Child (born 1957): “The Lost Island” (5 August 2014)
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“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in James Boswell: “The Life of Samuel Johnson” (1791), ‘April 5, 1775’
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” -Dorothy Bernard (Nora Dorothy ‘Dorothy’ Bernard (1890 - 1955))
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“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
Overheard: I have discovered that I scream the same way whether I am about to be devoured by a great white shark or a piece of seaweed touches my foot.
“Happiness is a form of courage.” -Holbrook Jackson (George ‘Holbrook’ Jackson (1874 - 1948))
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“I laugh in the face of danger. And then I hide until it goes away.” -Author Unknown: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997 - 2003), season 1, episode 3: ‘Witch’ (17 March 1997); line spoken by character Alexander Lavelle ‘Xander’ Harris (portrayed by actor Nicholas Brandon)
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965)): “Great Contemporaries” (1937), ‘Alfonso XIII’
“Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))
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“The thing I fear most is fear.” [translation to English]
“C’est de quoi j’ai le plus de peur que la peur.” [original French]
-Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (1580), Book I, Chapter 18
A psychologist, interviewed on the “Steve Allen Show,” announced that the only two instinctive fears in man are a fear of loud noises and a fear of falling. “I have a great fear,” replied Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William ‘Steve’ Allen (1921 - 2000)), without missing a beat, “of making a loud noise while falling.”
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” -Maya Angelou: as quoted in “USA Today” (5 March 1988)
Overheard: Don’t let your fears win.
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“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.” [translation to English]
“Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.” [original Latin]
-Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): “De Augmentis Scientiarum” (1623), Book II, ‘Fortitudo’
“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.” -Katherine Paterson (Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born 1932)): “Jacob Have I Loved” (1980)
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“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Book of Psalms,’ Psalm 27, verse 1 (King James Version)
“The phrase ‘do not be afraid’ is written in the Bible 365 times. That’s a daily reminder from God to live every day being fearless.” -Author Unknown
“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.” -Stephen Richards
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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” -Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): “Pudd’nhead Wilson” (1894), chapter 12: ‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar’
“Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.” -Ruth Gendler (Janet Ruth Gendler, also known as J. Ruth Gendler (born 1954)) at www.ruthgendler.com
“Sometimes it takes courage - maybe all the courage you’ve got - to just live life.” -Douglas Preston (Douglas Jerome Preston (born 1956)) and Lincoln Child (born 1957): “The Lost Island” (5 August 2014)
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“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in James Boswell: “The Life of Samuel Johnson” (1791), ‘April 5, 1775’
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” -Dorothy Bernard (Nora Dorothy ‘Dorothy’ Bernard (1890 - 1955))
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“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
Overheard: I have discovered that I scream the same way whether I am about to be devoured by a great white shark or a piece of seaweed touches my foot.
“Happiness is a form of courage.” -Holbrook Jackson (George ‘Holbrook’ Jackson (1874 - 1948))
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“I laugh in the face of danger. And then I hide until it goes away.” -Author Unknown: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997 - 2003), season 1, episode 3: ‘Witch’ (17 March 1997); line spoken by character Alexander Lavelle ‘Xander’ Harris (portrayed by actor Nicholas Brandon)
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965)): “Great Contemporaries” (1937), ‘Alfonso XIII’
“Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))
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“The thing I fear most is fear.” [translation to English]
“C’est de quoi j’ai le plus de peur que la peur.” [original French]
-Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (1580), Book I, Chapter 18
A psychologist, interviewed on the “Steve Allen Show,” announced that the only two instinctive fears in man are a fear of loud noises and a fear of falling. “I have a great fear,” replied Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William ‘Steve’ Allen (1921 - 2000)), without missing a beat, “of making a loud noise while falling.”
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” -Maya Angelou: as quoted in “USA Today” (5 March 1988)
Overheard: Don’t let your fears win.
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“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.” [translation to English]
“Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.” [original Latin]
-Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626): “De Augmentis Scientiarum” (1623), Book II, ‘Fortitudo’
“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.” -Katherine Paterson (Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born 1932)): “Jacob Have I Loved” (1980)
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“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Book of Psalms,’ Psalm 27, verse 1 (King James Version)
“The phrase ‘do not be afraid’ is written in the Bible 365 times. That’s a daily reminder from God to live every day being fearless.” -Author Unknown
“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.” -Stephen Richards
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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” -Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): “Pudd’nhead Wilson” (1894), chapter 12: ‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar’
“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.” -Arthur Wellesley (born Arthur Wesley (1769 - 1852)): as quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope: “Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington” (1886), ‘November 3, 1831’
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“Always believe that God is with you, and fear nothing.” -Eliezer: as quoted in Isidore Singer and Cyrus Adler, editors: “The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day Volume 2” (31 December 1903), page 386
“Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.” -Lauren Raffo
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983): “The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook” (1981)
“Fear is real and there is nothing you can do about it except to keep functioning, keep your hands and legs and body moving, your mind focused on the task at hand.” -Alvah Bessie: “Men in Battle: A Story of Americans in Spain” (1939), page 241
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“Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.” -Rollo May (Rollo Reece May (1909 - 1994)): “The Courage to Create” (1975), Chapter 1: ‘The Courage to Create,’ page 21
“Courage grows by daring, fear by holding back.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” -Mary Tyler Moore (1937 - 2017)
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“Courage is following your conscience instead of following the crowd.” -Eric Harvey
“Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.” -Author Unknown
14 October of every year is National Face Your Fears Day, and 17 days later, you can actually see some of them, because that day is Halloween!
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“To one who is afraid, everything rustles.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair (George Washington Addair, Junior (1931 - 2012))
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“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.” -Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910): as quoted in John Cooke: “The Book of Positive Quotations” (2007), page 479
Imagination frames events unknown,
In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin,
And what it fears creates.
-Hannah More (1745 - 1833): “Belshazzar,” Part II
“Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.” -Aaron Hill (1685 - 1750)
“Give yourself a pat on the back each time you hang in there when you’re scared.” -Marilyn Barrick (Marilyn Cooper Barrick (1932 - 2007))
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“Courage from hearts, and not from numbers, grows.” -John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “Annus Mirabilis” (1667), stanza 76, line 304; type of work: poem
“Fears are nothing more than states of mind.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
“You do not have to be fearless, just don’t let fear stop you.” -Charles Day (Charles Peckham Day (born 1976)): speech (May 2014) to graduating class of Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, United States of America
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“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.” -Titus Livius (also known simply as Livy (59 B.C.E. - C.E. 17))
“If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
“Bravery is acknowledging your fear and doing it anyway.” -Cheryl Strayed
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“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
“There is no courage without fear.” -Author Unknown
“The only known cure for fear is faith.” -Lena Kellogg Sadler (1875 - 1939)
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“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” [translation to English]
“Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17)): “Epistolæ Ex Ponto,” II, 7, 75
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.” -John Berryman (1914 - 1972)
“Fear makes men believe the worst.” [translation to English]
“Ad deteriora credenda proni metu.” [original Latin]
-Quintus Curtius Rufus: “De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni,” IV, 3, 22
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“If you work past a fear, if you jump over the barrier of a fear, if you act despite a fear, what will be beyond, what will be on the other side, what will you experience?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” -Bethany Hamilton (Bethany Meilani Hamilton-Dirks (born 1990))
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” -Tim Ferriss (Timothy ‘Tim’ Ferriss (born 1977))
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“Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021)): “Life’s Little Instruction Book” (1991)
“Ultimately, we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” -Marilyn Ferguson
“Stop letting fear rule your life.” -Author Unknown
“Courage is your greatest present need.” -Author Unknown
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“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.” -Keshavan Nair (born 1932)
“Life begins where fears end.” -Author Unknown
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“Always believe that God is with you, and fear nothing.” -Eliezer: as quoted in Isidore Singer and Cyrus Adler, editors: “The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day Volume 2” (31 December 1903), page 386
“Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.” -Lauren Raffo
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” -Mignon McLaughlin (1913 - 1983): “The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook” (1981)
“Fear is real and there is nothing you can do about it except to keep functioning, keep your hands and legs and body moving, your mind focused on the task at hand.” -Alvah Bessie: “Men in Battle: A Story of Americans in Spain” (1939), page 241
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“Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.” -Rollo May (Rollo Reece May (1909 - 1994)): “The Courage to Create” (1975), Chapter 1: ‘The Courage to Create,’ page 21
“Courage grows by daring, fear by holding back.” -Publilius Syrus (85 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” -Mary Tyler Moore (1937 - 2017)
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“Courage is following your conscience instead of following the crowd.” -Eric Harvey
“Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.” -Author Unknown
14 October of every year is National Face Your Fears Day, and 17 days later, you can actually see some of them, because that day is Halloween!
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“To one who is afraid, everything rustles.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair (George Washington Addair, Junior (1931 - 2012))
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“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.” -Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910): as quoted in John Cooke: “The Book of Positive Quotations” (2007), page 479
Imagination frames events unknown,
In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin,
And what it fears creates.
-Hannah More (1745 - 1833): “Belshazzar,” Part II
“Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.” -Aaron Hill (1685 - 1750)
“Give yourself a pat on the back each time you hang in there when you’re scared.” -Marilyn Barrick (Marilyn Cooper Barrick (1932 - 2007))
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“Courage from hearts, and not from numbers, grows.” -John Dryden (1631 - 1700): “Annus Mirabilis” (1667), stanza 76, line 304; type of work: poem
“Fears are nothing more than states of mind.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))
“You do not have to be fearless, just don’t let fear stop you.” -Charles Day (Charles Peckham Day (born 1976)): speech (May 2014) to graduating class of Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, United States of America
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“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.” -Titus Livius (also known simply as Livy (59 B.C.E. - C.E. 17))
“If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
“Bravery is acknowledging your fear and doing it anyway.” -Cheryl Strayed
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“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
“There is no courage without fear.” -Author Unknown
“The only known cure for fear is faith.” -Lena Kellogg Sadler (1875 - 1939)
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“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
“Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” [translation to English]
“Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.” [original Latin]
-Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17)): “Epistolæ Ex Ponto,” II, 7, 75
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.” -John Berryman (1914 - 1972)
“Fear makes men believe the worst.” [translation to English]
“Ad deteriora credenda proni metu.” [original Latin]
-Quintus Curtius Rufus: “De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni,” IV, 3, 22
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“If you work past a fear, if you jump over the barrier of a fear, if you act despite a fear, what will be beyond, what will be on the other side, what will you experience?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” -Bethany Hamilton (Bethany Meilani Hamilton-Dirks (born 1990))
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” -Tim Ferriss (Timothy ‘Tim’ Ferriss (born 1977))
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“Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021)): “Life’s Little Instruction Book” (1991)
“Ultimately, we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” -Marilyn Ferguson
“Stop letting fear rule your life.” -Author Unknown
“Courage is your greatest present need.” -Author Unknown
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“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.” -Keshavan Nair (born 1932)
“Life begins where fears end.” -Author Unknown
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How can I get people to like me?
If you were a robot but did not know it, would you want people to tell you?
Why did the chicken cross the road?
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What do penguins wear for play clothes?
“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” -Tony Robbins (Anthony Jay ‘Tony’ Robbins (born 1960)) at https://www.tonyrobbins.com/
Where did you get that big, beautiful smile?
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Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
Is there something else you should be doing right now?
Aren’t you just the cutest thing?
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What is your favorite vegetable?
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” -Indira Gandhi (Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (1917 - 1984)): as quoted in in Dawn Nicole Martin: “Misbehave: Speak Truth to Power” (1 April 2011), page 51
If you were a robot but did not know it, would you want people to tell you?
Why did the chicken cross the road?
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What do penguins wear for play clothes?
“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” -Tony Robbins (Anthony Jay ‘Tony’ Robbins (born 1960)) at https://www.tonyrobbins.com/
Where did you get that big, beautiful smile?
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Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
Is there something else you should be doing right now?
Aren’t you just the cutest thing?
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What is your favorite vegetable?
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” -Indira Gandhi (Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (1917 - 1984)): as quoted in in Dawn Nicole Martin: “Misbehave: Speak Truth to Power” (1 April 2011), page 51
Questions
If there is something you want to know,
A question is the way to go.
Ask a question and you will see
Information comes easily.
Use question words like when or where,
To find out if the answer’s there.
What and who, how and why,
Are other words you can try.
Comments are nice,
But they won’t do the trick.
To learn something new,
Ask a question real quick.
By Author Unknown
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If there is something you want to know,
A question is the way to go.
Ask a question and you will see
Information comes easily.
Use question words like when or where,
To find out if the answer’s there.
What and who, how and why,
Are other words you can try.
Comments are nice,
But they won’t do the trick.
To learn something new,
Ask a question real quick.
By Author Unknown
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Would you tell me a true thing?
If we can make semi-conductors, can you just imagine what we could do if we made complete conductors?
How can you know what you think until you speak so that you can hear what you have to say?
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If you were on the second floor of a three-story building, would you be upstairs and downstairs at the same time?
Everyone says things are just Jim Dandy . . . but who is this Jim Dandy fellow?
When someone erases a word with a pencil, where does it go?
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Why do British people not sound British when they sing?
“To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep?
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Do you realize just how many holes there could be in the ground if people would just take the time to get a shovel and dig the dirt out of them?
What is the speed of dark?
What could possibly go wrong?
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If we can make semi-conductors, can you just imagine what we could do if we made complete conductors?
How can you know what you think until you speak so that you can hear what you have to say?
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If you were on the second floor of a three-story building, would you be upstairs and downstairs at the same time?
Everyone says things are just Jim Dandy . . . but who is this Jim Dandy fellow?
When someone erases a word with a pencil, where does it go?
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Why do British people not sound British when they sing?
“To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Why do birds not fall out of trees when they sleep?
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Do you realize just how many holes there could be in the ground if people would just take the time to get a shovel and dig the dirt out of them?
What is the speed of dark?
What could possibly go wrong?
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Why do we never hear any father-in-law jokes?
Should Friday the 13th be made into a holiday?
If you were to be trapped in a television show forever, which show would you choose?
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If you could have picked your own name, what would it be?
Is there a butterscotch flavored soft drink?
Does it seem that some people specialize in turning positives into negatives?
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What did moths congregate around before campfires, torches, and light bulbs were invented?
Does wasting time damage eternity?
Why is it that when you walk up the stairs and you get to the top, you always think there is still one more step?
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Are earthquakes on Mars called marsquakes?
If a chameleon was placed in a mirrored box, what color would it be - clear?
Who wants to go outside and play?
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If the electric power went out everywhere for a week, what would you do during that time?
Since there is a speed of light and a speed of sound, is there a speed of smell and a speed of taste?
“He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.” -Tom J. Connelly
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“Ask the young. They know everything.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824): as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
Why do people go to the top of tall buildings and then put money in telescopes so they can see things on the ground in close-up?
An average four-year-old child asks 437 questions a day. Have you asked a question today?
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“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.” -Niels Bohr (Neils Henrik David Bohr)
Are adults just older children?
What would love do now?
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“You’ve got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world’s most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.” -Percy Ross
Who is the funniest person in the world?
What do you think is the right age or conditions for marriage and why?
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Does glue ever stick to the inside of the bottle?
What things do you always carry with you in your pocket, purse, backpack, or wallet?
What does it mean, to live happily ever after?
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What just happened?
Have you ever heard a bird sing out of tune?
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Why are roads built so close to the ground?
What do you wish you knew more about?
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Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Alex?
Alex, who?
Alex the questions around here!
Is a British billionaire richer than an American billionaire?
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Can you name something that is not weird, odd, or unusual?
Is there a mouse-flavored cat food?
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Why hasn’t someone invented a bed that makes itself yet?
What’s what?
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If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
A year from now, what will you wish you had done today?
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Should Friday the 13th be made into a holiday?
If you were to be trapped in a television show forever, which show would you choose?
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If you could have picked your own name, what would it be?
Is there a butterscotch flavored soft drink?
Does it seem that some people specialize in turning positives into negatives?
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What did moths congregate around before campfires, torches, and light bulbs were invented?
Does wasting time damage eternity?
Why is it that when you walk up the stairs and you get to the top, you always think there is still one more step?
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Are earthquakes on Mars called marsquakes?
If a chameleon was placed in a mirrored box, what color would it be - clear?
Who wants to go outside and play?
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If the electric power went out everywhere for a week, what would you do during that time?
Since there is a speed of light and a speed of sound, is there a speed of smell and a speed of taste?
“He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.” -Tom J. Connelly
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“Ask the young. They know everything.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824): as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)
Why do people go to the top of tall buildings and then put money in telescopes so they can see things on the ground in close-up?
An average four-year-old child asks 437 questions a day. Have you asked a question today?
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“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.” -Niels Bohr (Neils Henrik David Bohr)
Are adults just older children?
What would love do now?
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“You’ve got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world’s most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.” -Percy Ross
Who is the funniest person in the world?
What do you think is the right age or conditions for marriage and why?
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Does glue ever stick to the inside of the bottle?
What things do you always carry with you in your pocket, purse, backpack, or wallet?
What does it mean, to live happily ever after?
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What just happened?
Have you ever heard a bird sing out of tune?
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Why are roads built so close to the ground?
What do you wish you knew more about?
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Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Alex?
Alex, who?
Alex the questions around here!
Is a British billionaire richer than an American billionaire?
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Can you name something that is not weird, odd, or unusual?
Is there a mouse-flavored cat food?
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Why hasn’t someone invented a bed that makes itself yet?
What’s what?
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If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
A year from now, what will you wish you had done today?
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“The word ‘question’ originates from the Latin root ‘quaestio’ meaning ‘to seek.’ Inside the word ‘question’ is the word ‘quest,’ suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.” -Tom Wujec: “Five Star Mind” (1995)
“Since we have kneecaps to protect our leg joints, why do we not have elbowcaps to protect our funny bones?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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How many days are in a light year?
“If not you, who? If not now, when?” -Garry Herbert
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How fast do you have to go to keep up with the Sun so that you are never in darkness?
Are there legitimate ways to earn money online?
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What’s next?
“Asking silly questions now is better than correcting serious mistakes later.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Do you prefer your food served on square plates or round plates?
What kind of music do you like?
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How old were you when you were born?
What are you thankful for?
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“Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?” -Harold Pinter
If life is so wonderful and exciting and full of interesting people, places, things, and activities, then why are we all by ourselves looking at the screens of our electronic devices?
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Should apartments be called togetherments, because they are together and not apart?
What are male ballerinas called?
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Why is France so far away?
Sales Person: Be sure to ask me if you have any questions.
Customer: Sure thing . . . so do I have any questions?
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If a birdhouse is placed in a tree, does it then become a treehouse?
“There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.” -Charles Steinmetz (Charles Proteus Steinmetz (born Karl August Rudolf (1865 - 1923)))
Do you have all of your ducks in a row?
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Who is the most interesting person you ever met, and why?
At the end of the day, are you better off than you were at the start of the day?
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Why do we believe everything we see on the internet but question what The Bible says?
What is your favorite work of art?
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Are social media websites turning us into weird little creatures - maybe not all of us, but enough of us so that the rest of us should be concerned?
What is keeping you from doing the things you need to do?
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“The word ‘question’ originates from the Latin root ‘quaestio’ meaning ‘to seek.’ Inside the word ‘question’ is the word ‘quest,’ suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.” -Tom Wujec: “Five Star Mind” (1995)
“Since we have kneecaps to protect our leg joints, why do we not have elbowcaps to protect our funny bones?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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How many days are in a light year?
“If not you, who? If not now, when?” -Garry Herbert
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How fast do you have to go to keep up with the Sun so that you are never in darkness?
Are there legitimate ways to earn money online?
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What’s next?
“Asking silly questions now is better than correcting serious mistakes later.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Do you prefer your food served on square plates or round plates?
What kind of music do you like?
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How old were you when you were born?
What are you thankful for?
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“Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?” -Harold Pinter
If life is so wonderful and exciting and full of interesting people, places, things, and activities, then why are we all by ourselves looking at the screens of our electronic devices?
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Should apartments be called togetherments, because they are together and not apart?
What are male ballerinas called?
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Why is France so far away?
Sales Person: Be sure to ask me if you have any questions.
Customer: Sure thing . . . so do I have any questions?
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If a birdhouse is placed in a tree, does it then become a treehouse?
“There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.” -Charles Steinmetz (Charles Proteus Steinmetz (born Karl August Rudolf (1865 - 1923)))
Do you have all of your ducks in a row?
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Who is the most interesting person you ever met, and why?
At the end of the day, are you better off than you were at the start of the day?
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Why do we believe everything we see on the internet but question what The Bible says?
What is your favorite work of art?
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Are social media websites turning us into weird little creatures - maybe not all of us, but enough of us so that the rest of us should be concerned?
What is keeping you from doing the things you need to do?
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If you could be any kind of animal, what would you want to be and why?
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Who has been the biggest influence on your life?
Are we ever going to make it up this hill?
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Teacher: What if this was not a rhetorical question?
Student: What if this was not a hypothetical situation?
Why does this keep happening?
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Why is there one in every crowd?
“Why do people park in driveways and drive on parkways?” -Larry Anderson
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“Ask the experienced rather than the learned.” -Author Unknown
Which do you like more: scary movies, romantic movies, or comedy movies?
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When lights go out, where do they go?
“Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don’t have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.” -Katharine Graham (Katharine Meyer Graham (1917 - 2001)): as quoted by Jane Howard: ‘The Power That Didn’t Corrupt’ published in “Ms. Magazine” (October 1974)
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Why are there schools for preschoolers?
What kind of place is this?
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If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
“A questioning man is halfway to being wise.” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb
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What do you like to do for fun?
Do some people have a condition that makes it difficult for them to remember the good things that happen and easy to remember the bad things that happen?
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Which is a sign of higher intelligence, asking questions, or not asking questions?
Can we spell creativity any way we want to?
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Have you noticed that since everyone has a digital camera or a cell phone with a built-in camera these days, no one talks about seeing UFO’s and monsters and ghosts like they used to?
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How many days are in a light year?
Is it right that you should have only a broken-down flea-bitten donkey while the local warlord has 300 camels and 1,200 horses?
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If the Universe is expanding, why are parking spaces so hard to find?
What is the difference between spelling words and casting spells?
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Would you rather go shopping or sightseeing, and why?
What is the best advice you ever received?
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“There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence.” -Author Unknown
Should a building be called a built when its construction is done?
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If a thousand seagulls were in an airplane while it was flying, with each bird weighing two pounds, and all of them flying around inside the airplane, would the airplane weigh 2,000 pounds more?
If you could go back in time and speak to your younger self, what age would you choose and what would you say?
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Do you play a musical instrument?
Are you from outer space?
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Would we all be better off if we refused to accept anything that was offered to us for free?
When was the last time you did something for the first time?
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What is your favorite song?
Why is the alphabet in the order that it is in?
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Why do we say an alarm is going off when it is actually turning on?
What is magic?
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If you woke up as a monkey, what would you do first?
What are you really good at?
Is the opposite of the opposite the same or different?
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Does your physical address plus the time equal your space-time coordinates?
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?
“Why is the world so beautiful? is a question that we all ought to be embracing.” -Robin Wall Kimmerer Interview: “On Being” (2022) podcast
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“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
“If water had a flavor, what color would it sound like?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
What do you think is beyond the stars?
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Wow, those were some challenging and difficult questions! Fortunately, the topic that follows below this one on MFOL! is much easier . . .
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Who has been the biggest influence on your life?
Are we ever going to make it up this hill?
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Teacher: What if this was not a rhetorical question?
Student: What if this was not a hypothetical situation?
Why does this keep happening?
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Adversities And Persevering Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
Why is there one in every crowd?
“Why do people park in driveways and drive on parkways?” -Larry Anderson
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“Ask the experienced rather than the learned.” -Author Unknown
Which do you like more: scary movies, romantic movies, or comedy movies?
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When lights go out, where do they go?
“Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don’t have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.” -Katharine Graham (Katharine Meyer Graham (1917 - 2001)): as quoted by Jane Howard: ‘The Power That Didn’t Corrupt’ published in “Ms. Magazine” (October 1974)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Difficulty And Ease Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
Why are there schools for preschoolers?
What kind of place is this?
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Geography Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
“A questioning man is halfway to being wise.” -Author Unknown: Irish proverb
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Continuing And Progressing Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
What do you like to do for fun?
Do some people have a condition that makes it difficult for them to remember the good things that happen and easy to remember the bad things that happen?
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Forgetting And Remembering Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
Which is a sign of higher intelligence, asking questions, or not asking questions?
Can we spell creativity any way we want to?
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Word Spellings Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
Have you noticed that since everyone has a digital camera or a cell phone with a built-in camera these days, no one talks about seeing UFO’s and monsters and ghosts like they used to?
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of this article, or click or tap on these words to visit the Horror Page.
How many days are in a light year?
Is it right that you should have only a broken-down flea-bitten donkey while the local warlord has 300 camels and 1,200 horses?
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Poverty And Prosperity Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
If the Universe is expanding, why are parking spaces so hard to find?
What is the difference between spelling words and casting spells?
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Witchery And Witching Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
Would you rather go shopping or sightseeing, and why?
What is the best advice you ever received?
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“There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence.” -Author Unknown
Should a building be called a built when its construction is done?
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Past - Present - Future Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
If a thousand seagulls were in an airplane while it was flying, with each bird weighing two pounds, and all of them flying around inside the airplane, would the airplane weigh 2,000 pounds more?
If you could go back in time and speak to your younger self, what age would you choose and what would you say?
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Words Heal Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
Do you play a musical instrument?
Are you from outer space?
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Would we all be better off if we refused to accept anything that was offered to us for free?
When was the last time you did something for the first time?
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Beginning And Starting Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
What is your favorite song?
Why is the alphabet in the order that it is in?
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Why do we say an alarm is going off when it is actually turning on?
What is magic?
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If you woke up as a monkey, what would you do first?
What are you really good at?
Is the opposite of the opposite the same or different?
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Differences And Individuality Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
Does your physical address plus the time equal your space-time coordinates?
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?
“Why is the world so beautiful? is a question that we all ought to be embracing.” -Robin Wall Kimmerer Interview: “On Being” (2022) podcast
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Nature And Wildlife Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” -Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
“If water had a flavor, what color would it sound like?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
What do you think is beyond the stars?
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Wow, those were some challenging and difficult questions! Fortunately, the topic that follows below this one on MFOL! is much easier . . .
Shane: How could six children and two dogs be under an umbrella, and yet none of them got wet?
Shannon: It wasn’t raining.
The Folded Friend
I carry my friend on a trip,
A canopy held by a grip.
He blocks out the showers,
Through all of the hours,
And opens with one easy flip.
By Author Unknown
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The word ‘umbrella’ comes from the Latin word ‘umbros’ meaning ‘shade’ or ‘shadow.’
Judy: Why do people carry umbrellas?
Jude: Because umbrellas can’t walk by themselves.
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Umbrellas were originally used to shade people from the Sun, like modern parasols, and not to protect people from the rain as they are today. In ancient Greece, umbrellas became a fashion accessory used by men though not women, probably because men tended to be out under the Sun more.
Little Umbrella
I have a little umbrella.
It helps me stay dry.
And on a very windy day,
It even helps me fly!
Open it. Close it.
Oh, what fun it can be.
Jumping over puddles,
My little umbrella and me!
By Author Unknown
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Shannon: It wasn’t raining.
The Folded Friend
I carry my friend on a trip,
A canopy held by a grip.
He blocks out the showers,
Through all of the hours,
And opens with one easy flip.
By Author Unknown
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The word ‘umbrella’ comes from the Latin word ‘umbros’ meaning ‘shade’ or ‘shadow.’
Judy: Why do people carry umbrellas?
Jude: Because umbrellas can’t walk by themselves.
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Umbrellas were originally used to shade people from the Sun, like modern parasols, and not to protect people from the rain as they are today. In ancient Greece, umbrellas became a fashion accessory used by men though not women, probably because men tended to be out under the Sun more.
Little Umbrella
I have a little umbrella.
It helps me stay dry.
And on a very windy day,
It even helps me fly!
Open it. Close it.
Oh, what fun it can be.
Jumping over puddles,
My little umbrella and me!
By Author Unknown
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“A rainy day is the only chance an umbrella gets to shine.” -Author Unknown
The Rain
Pitter-patter, raindrops,
Falling from the sky,
Here is my umbrella,
To keep me safe and dry!
When the rain is over,
And the Sun begins to glow,
Little flowers start to bud,
And grow and grow and grow!
By Author Unknown
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Pitter-patter, raindrops,
Falling from the sky,
Here is my umbrella,
To keep me safe and dry!
When the rain is over,
And the Sun begins to glow,
Little flowers start to bud,
And grow and grow and grow!
By Author Unknown
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The average life span of cheap umbrellas is one-and-a-half years.
Bella Had A New Umbrella
Bella had a new umbrella
Didn’t want to lose it,
So when she walked out in the rain
She didn’t ever use it.
Her nose went sniff,
Her shoes went squish,
Her socks grew soggy,
Her glasses got foggy,
Her pockets filled with water,
And a little green froggy.
All she could speak
Was a weak ‘kachoo!’
But Bella’s umbrella
Stayed nice and new.
By Eve Merriam (born Eva Moskovitz (1916 - 1992))
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Bella Had A New Umbrella
Bella had a new umbrella
Didn’t want to lose it,
So when she walked out in the rain
She didn’t ever use it.
Her nose went sniff,
Her shoes went squish,
Her socks grew soggy,
Her glasses got foggy,
Her pockets filled with water,
And a little green froggy.
All she could speak
Was a weak ‘kachoo!’
But Bella’s umbrella
Stayed nice and new.
By Eve Merriam (born Eva Moskovitz (1916 - 1992))
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Dale: What goes up when the rain comes down?
Gail: An umbrella!
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Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)) once told a story of trying to get rid of a wreck of an old umbrella. First he threw it in a trash can, but someone recognized it as his, and returned it. Then he dropped it down a deep well, but someone repairing the well saw the umbrella, and returned it. He tried several other methods, but always the umbrella came back. “Finally,” said Mr. Twain, “I lent it to a friend, and I never saw it again.”
Keith: Why would anyone need a chicken-proof umbrella?
Kevin: To use in case of fowl weather.
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Marla: So what kind of umbrellas do people carry on rainy days?
Marlo: Wet ones.
Why are many umbrellas black? When umbrellas first came into popular use in the 18th century, they were made of oil-soaked cotton cloth stretched over whalebone. Oil was applied to the cotton fabric to make it waterproof. It also gave the cloth a black coloration. While this type of umbrella was waterproof, it was not very durable. Soon, better umbrellas were made, and since the color black was associated with effective waterproofing, most of the newer models were dyed black. However, for safety purposes, brightly colored umbrellas, being more visible to motorists, may possibly decrease the likelihood of collisions with pedestrians. Clear umbrellas are also a good choice as they give their holders the ability to see through them.
What is a bumbershoot? ‘Bumbershoot’ is a whimsical, informal American term for ‘umbrella,’ derived from ‘umbr’ taken from ‘umbrella’ and ‘shoot’ taken from ‘parachute’ . . . because an umbrella reminds some people of a parachute. The British are known to use the informal terms ‘brolly’ for ‘umbrella’ and ‘gamp’ for an ‘oversized or very large umbrella.’
Stella’s umbrella flipped in a gale,
Changing her boring rainy day into
An eventful bumbershoot-related fail.
-Author Unknown
“I used the money I had been saving for a rainy day to buy an umbrella.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Gail: An umbrella!
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Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)) once told a story of trying to get rid of a wreck of an old umbrella. First he threw it in a trash can, but someone recognized it as his, and returned it. Then he dropped it down a deep well, but someone repairing the well saw the umbrella, and returned it. He tried several other methods, but always the umbrella came back. “Finally,” said Mr. Twain, “I lent it to a friend, and I never saw it again.”
Keith: Why would anyone need a chicken-proof umbrella?
Kevin: To use in case of fowl weather.
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Marla: So what kind of umbrellas do people carry on rainy days?
Marlo: Wet ones.
Why are many umbrellas black? When umbrellas first came into popular use in the 18th century, they were made of oil-soaked cotton cloth stretched over whalebone. Oil was applied to the cotton fabric to make it waterproof. It also gave the cloth a black coloration. While this type of umbrella was waterproof, it was not very durable. Soon, better umbrellas were made, and since the color black was associated with effective waterproofing, most of the newer models were dyed black. However, for safety purposes, brightly colored umbrellas, being more visible to motorists, may possibly decrease the likelihood of collisions with pedestrians. Clear umbrellas are also a good choice as they give their holders the ability to see through them.
What is a bumbershoot? ‘Bumbershoot’ is a whimsical, informal American term for ‘umbrella,’ derived from ‘umbr’ taken from ‘umbrella’ and ‘shoot’ taken from ‘parachute’ . . . because an umbrella reminds some people of a parachute. The British are known to use the informal terms ‘brolly’ for ‘umbrella’ and ‘gamp’ for an ‘oversized or very large umbrella.’
Stella’s umbrella flipped in a gale,
Changing her boring rainy day into
An eventful bumbershoot-related fail.
-Author Unknown
“I used the money I had been saving for a rainy day to buy an umbrella.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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It’s raining umbrellas!
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“You will need three umbrellas: one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.” -James L. Blankenship
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“You will need three umbrellas: one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.” -James L. Blankenship
Spin And Twirl
Spin, spin the parasol
Spin it, and it flies away -
When it stops,
It’s somehow on the ground.
Twirl, twirl the umbrella,
Water droplets fly everywhere.
Twirl it, twirl it,
And then twirl it once more!
Parasol or umbrella,
Twirl or spin,
Collapse them and stow them away,
To twirl or spin on yet another day.
By David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966): “More Boring Poetry”
Spin, spin the parasol
Spin it, and it flies away -
When it stops,
It’s somehow on the ground.
Twirl, twirl the umbrella,
Water droplets fly everywhere.
Twirl it, twirl it,
And then twirl it once more!
Parasol or umbrella,
Twirl or spin,
Collapse them and stow them away,
To twirl or spin on yet another day.
By David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966): “More Boring Poetry”
National Umbrella Day is observed on 10 February of each year. If it doesn’t rain on that day, it’ll be a big disappointment to many of us!
“Spin the parasol three times and repeat after me: I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the great parasol.” -Gail Carriger
“Have you noticed that some people are not good at saving money, but somehow always manage to save an umbrella for a rainy day?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Spin the parasol three times and repeat after me: I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the great parasol.” -Gail Carriger
“Have you noticed that some people are not good at saving money, but somehow always manage to save an umbrella for a rainy day?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
The word ‘parasol’ is a combination of ’para’ from the Latin word ‘parare’ meaning ‘to shield from’ and ’sol’ meaning ‘sun.’
Norman: Did you hear about the responsible umbrella manufacturer?
Norma: Yes, they say he is saving his money for a sunny day.
Umbrellas are among the things of which you should always have at least two, in case you lose an umbrella or need to loan one to a friend. The two best times to buy an umbrella are before you need one and when it is not raining. When it starts raining, umbrellas sell quickly, even at inflated prices, and you might not be able to find one to buy.
“I walked around for a few hours. Around one-thirty it started raining lightly. Almost immediately the umbrella sellers turned up on the street corners. You’d have thought they had existed previously in spore form, springing miraculously to life when a drop of water touched them.” -Lawrence Block (born 1938): “Out on the Cutting Edge” (1989)
Marshall: What is big and gray and protects people from the rain?
Marsha: An umbrellaphant!
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Umbrellas And Parasols Facts
- Umbrellas help keep the rain off people.
- Umbrellas are made of waterproof material.
- Parasols help keep the sunlight off people.
- Parasols are often not made of waterproof material.
“One thing we have never been able to save for a rainy day is an umbrella.” -Herbert V. Prochnow (Herbert Victor Prochnow, Senior (1897 - 1998))
Della And Her Umbrella
A delightful young duck named Della
Had in her possession an umbrella -
In appearance it was a bright sunny yellow;
And thus despite any downpour of rain,
She could always reliably remain
Quite dry, cheerful, and mellow.
By David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Norman: Did you hear about the responsible umbrella manufacturer?
Norma: Yes, they say he is saving his money for a sunny day.
Umbrellas are among the things of which you should always have at least two, in case you lose an umbrella or need to loan one to a friend. The two best times to buy an umbrella are before you need one and when it is not raining. When it starts raining, umbrellas sell quickly, even at inflated prices, and you might not be able to find one to buy.
“I walked around for a few hours. Around one-thirty it started raining lightly. Almost immediately the umbrella sellers turned up on the street corners. You’d have thought they had existed previously in spore form, springing miraculously to life when a drop of water touched them.” -Lawrence Block (born 1938): “Out on the Cutting Edge” (1989)
Marshall: What is big and gray and protects people from the rain?
Marsha: An umbrellaphant!
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Umbrellas And Parasols Facts
- Umbrellas help keep the rain off people.
- Umbrellas are made of waterproof material.
- Parasols help keep the sunlight off people.
- Parasols are often not made of waterproof material.
“One thing we have never been able to save for a rainy day is an umbrella.” -Herbert V. Prochnow (Herbert Victor Prochnow, Senior (1897 - 1998))
Della And Her Umbrella
A delightful young duck named Della
Had in her possession an umbrella -
In appearance it was a bright sunny yellow;
And thus despite any downpour of rain,
She could always reliably remain
Quite dry, cheerful, and mellow.
By David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Your own personal portable cloud-on-a-stick parasol is a great accessory for carrying around on sunny days, and will help keep the Sun off your head. This one is made from fluffy cotton and a broken umbrella.
Combination parasol and umbrella are called ’en-tout-cas’ meaning ‘in any case’ in French. An umbrella used in the event of falling snow is called a ’paraneige.’ What other kinds of weather and conditions might merit specialized umbrellas? Is there an umbrella for underwater use? Could we create a dust storm umbrella? Perhaps we need a specialized umbrella for use on the Moon, against Moon dust? Then there might be an autumn umbrella, to keep off falling leaves, a snow umbrella . . .
Combination parasol and umbrella are called ’en-tout-cas’ meaning ‘in any case’ in French. An umbrella used in the event of falling snow is called a ’paraneige.’ What other kinds of weather and conditions might merit specialized umbrellas? Is there an umbrella for underwater use? Could we create a dust storm umbrella? Perhaps we need a specialized umbrella for use on the Moon, against Moon dust? Then there might be an autumn umbrella, to keep off falling leaves, a snow umbrella . . .
The Gingham Umbrella
Alphonso, Alphonso, Alphonso and Arabella
They happened to meet
A man in the street,
Who carried a gingham umbrella.
Alphonso possessed neither manners nor grace,
He made at this person a hideous face;
But how different the conduct of sweet Arabella,
Who praised with politeness the gingham umbrella.
The man was a nobleman, deeply disguised;
The compliment courteous he pointedly prized;
‘Sweet creature,’ he said, ‘come away from this feller,
And take both my heart and my gingham umbrella!’
The very next morning they met in the church,
And foolish Alphonso was left in the lurch;
And they said, ‘In the future you’ll know how to tell a
Great lord from a loon, by his gingham umbrella!’
By Laura Richards (Laura Elizabeth Richards (1850 - 1943))
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Alphonso, Alphonso, Alphonso and Arabella
They happened to meet
A man in the street,
Who carried a gingham umbrella.
Alphonso possessed neither manners nor grace,
He made at this person a hideous face;
But how different the conduct of sweet Arabella,
Who praised with politeness the gingham umbrella.
The man was a nobleman, deeply disguised;
The compliment courteous he pointedly prized;
‘Sweet creature,’ he said, ‘come away from this feller,
And take both my heart and my gingham umbrella!’
The very next morning they met in the church,
And foolish Alphonso was left in the lurch;
And they said, ‘In the future you’ll know how to tell a
Great lord from a loon, by his gingham umbrella!’
By Laura Richards (Laura Elizabeth Richards (1850 - 1943))
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A successful steel-ribbed umbrella was invented by Samuel Fox in 1852, although some earlier steel-ribbed umbrellas may have existed. The first working folding umbrella was introduced by Bradford Philips in 1969.
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A friend is someone who has an umbrella when it is raining . . .
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Marissa: What goes up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?
Clarissa: An umbrella!
The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust steals the just’s umbrella.
-Charles Bowen (Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, also known as Baron Bowen (1835 - 1894)): as published in Walter Sichel: “Sands of Time” (1923)
“If you appreciate your umbrella, make it happy by walking in the rain with it.” -Author Unknown
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“Stanley wandered off into the woods, which turned out to be vaster than he had ever imagined a field of trees could be. Walking down into a densely wooded valley, he found it to be the Land of the Umbrella People. These folks had no permanent houses, but carried large umbrellas on their backs, pointing skyward. When darkness or inclement weather arrived, they opened up their umbrellas, and like tent-dwellers, they lived inside them until morning or until the skies cleared up. The lower ends of the umbrella ribs were like tent stakes that sank into the ground, and the umbrellas were sturdy enough to protect their occupants from wolves and goblins and other creatures of concern prowling about in the dark in search of somebody to eat.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966): “If You Believe In Fairy Tales”
Umbrella Etiquette
- Let others stand under your umbrella with you, including people and animals, if your umbrella is large enough, and if the others are not too peculiar.
- Shake the water off your umbrella before entering a building or vehicle, and then either place it inside a plastic bag, in an umbrella stand, or in another place where the water that runs off it will not create a dangerous slippery-slidey floor.
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“All men are equal - all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.” -E. M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster): “Howards End” (1910)
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Marissa: What goes up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?
Clarissa: An umbrella!
The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust steals the just’s umbrella.
-Charles Bowen (Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, also known as Baron Bowen (1835 - 1894)): as published in Walter Sichel: “Sands of Time” (1923)
“If you appreciate your umbrella, make it happy by walking in the rain with it.” -Author Unknown
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“Stanley wandered off into the woods, which turned out to be vaster than he had ever imagined a field of trees could be. Walking down into a densely wooded valley, he found it to be the Land of the Umbrella People. These folks had no permanent houses, but carried large umbrellas on their backs, pointing skyward. When darkness or inclement weather arrived, they opened up their umbrellas, and like tent-dwellers, they lived inside them until morning or until the skies cleared up. The lower ends of the umbrella ribs were like tent stakes that sank into the ground, and the umbrellas were sturdy enough to protect their occupants from wolves and goblins and other creatures of concern prowling about in the dark in search of somebody to eat.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966): “If You Believe In Fairy Tales”
Umbrella Etiquette
- Let others stand under your umbrella with you, including people and animals, if your umbrella is large enough, and if the others are not too peculiar.
- Shake the water off your umbrella before entering a building or vehicle, and then either place it inside a plastic bag, in an umbrella stand, or in another place where the water that runs off it will not create a dangerous slippery-slidey floor.
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“All men are equal - all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.” -E. M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster): “Howards End” (1910)
“It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index of social position . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.” -Robert L. Stevenson (Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894)) and J. W. Ferrier: “Philosophy of Umbrellas” (1871)
Otis: Why did your sister cut a hole in her new umbrella?
Doris: Because she wanted to be able to tell when it stopped raining.
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Umbrellas that are up when Days are duller,
Instead of being Dark should glow with Color.
-Arthur Guiterman (1871 - 1943): “A Poet’s Proverbs” (1924), ‘Of Cheerfulness’
Otis: Why did your sister cut a hole in her new umbrella?
Doris: Because she wanted to be able to tell when it stopped raining.
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Umbrellas that are up when Days are duller,
Instead of being Dark should glow with Color.
-Arthur Guiterman (1871 - 1943): “A Poet’s Proverbs” (1924), ‘Of Cheerfulness’
Umbrellas Go Up
Umbrellas go up,
When the rain falls down,
When the rain falls down on me.
Umbrellas go up,
When the weather’s wet,
To keep the rain off me!
Umbrellas go up,
When the sun shines down
On a hot day by the sea.
Umbrellas go up,
When the weather’s hot,
To keep the Sun off me!
By Author Unknown
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Umbrellas go up,
When the rain falls down,
When the rain falls down on me.
Umbrellas go up,
When the weather’s wet,
To keep the rain off me!
Umbrellas go up,
When the sun shines down
On a hot day by the sea.
Umbrellas go up,
When the weather’s hot,
To keep the Sun off me!
By Author Unknown
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“Going around under an umbrella interferes with one’s looking up at the sky.” -Jerzy Kosinski
We know you can’t wait for it to rain, so that you can try out your new umbrella, with that great new umbrella smell! More fun follows . . . on MFOL!
“Set your sights high - the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen - not in the future but right now! Realize that nothing is too good.” -Eileen Caddy (1917 - 2006)
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“This is the best day the world has ever seen; tomorrow will be better.” -R. A. Campbell (Robert Allen Campbell (born about 1836 or 1837)): as quoted in “Journal of Education” (1915) publication of Boston University, volume 81
“A great attitude precedes a great performance.” -Author Unknown
“Winners come in all shapes and sizes but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.” -Author Unknown
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“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” -Herm Albright (1876 - 1944): as attributed in “The Reader’s Digest” (1995)
“You must always be positive! And always smile! A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but being positive will affect many people to make it worth the effort.” -Daniel Carver: “What’s Wrong with Management” (2005), page 10
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965))
“It all depends on how we look at things and not on how they are themselves. “ -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
A Bad Attitude
A boy who was terribly rude
Found his trouble: a bad attitude.
He pulled thorns from its side,
Smoothed its raw, ruffled hide,
Cut its claws, and his life was renewed.
By Author Unknown
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“Clear your mind of ‘can’t’.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
“It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.” -Annie Gottlier
“As a man is, so he sees.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): letter (23 August 1799) to John Trusler (1735 - 1820)
“You ‘can do’ with a ‘can do’ attitude!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“It’s hard to have a good day with a bad attitude or a bad day with a good attitude.” -Joe Moore
“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
“In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.” -Spencer Johnson
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“When you look at the world in a narrow way how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad generous friendly spirit what wonderful people you find in it.” -Horace Rutledge
“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 18 October 1934))
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“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.” -David Hume (1711 - 1776): “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary” (1875), volume 1, ‘The Sceptic’ (about 1750)
“We tend to live up to our expectations.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“Train your mind to see something good in everything.” -Author Unknown
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“Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“If you growl all day, you’re sure to be dog tired at night.” -Author Unknown
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“The predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that like attracts like. Consequently, the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as to correspond to its nature.” -Charles Haanel
“A bad attitude is like a flat tire; you can’t go anywhere until you change it.” -Author Unknown
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“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944))
“‘You become what you think about’ is the foundation of your actions and reactions. What are your thoughts? Positive all the time? How are you guiding them?” -Jeffrey Gitomer (born 1946)
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“Declarations are powerful. If you declare that you are going to be an optimistic, upbeat person at all times, an interesting phenomenon takes place. When people expect you to be positive, you don’t want to let them down. You live your intentions every day - every minute.” -Neil Eskelin
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“This is the best day the world has ever seen; tomorrow will be better.” -R. A. Campbell (Robert Allen Campbell (born about 1836 or 1837)): as quoted in “Journal of Education” (1915) publication of Boston University, volume 81
“A great attitude precedes a great performance.” -Author Unknown
“Winners come in all shapes and sizes but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.” -Author Unknown
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“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” -Herm Albright (1876 - 1944): as attributed in “The Reader’s Digest” (1995)
“You must always be positive! And always smile! A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but being positive will affect many people to make it worth the effort.” -Daniel Carver: “What’s Wrong with Management” (2005), page 10
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965))
“It all depends on how we look at things and not on how they are themselves. “ -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
A Bad Attitude
A boy who was terribly rude
Found his trouble: a bad attitude.
He pulled thorns from its side,
Smoothed its raw, ruffled hide,
Cut its claws, and his life was renewed.
By Author Unknown
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“Clear your mind of ‘can’t’.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
“It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.” -Annie Gottlier
“As a man is, so he sees.” -William Blake (1757 - 1827): letter (23 August 1799) to John Trusler (1735 - 1820)
“You ‘can do’ with a ‘can do’ attitude!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“It’s hard to have a good day with a bad attitude or a bad day with a good attitude.” -Joe Moore
“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
“In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.” -Spencer Johnson
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“When you look at the world in a narrow way how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad generous friendly spirit what wonderful people you find in it.” -Horace Rutledge
“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 18 October 1934))
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“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.” -David Hume (1711 - 1776): “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary” (1875), volume 1, ‘The Sceptic’ (about 1750)
“We tend to live up to our expectations.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“Train your mind to see something good in everything.” -Author Unknown
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“Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“If you growl all day, you’re sure to be dog tired at night.” -Author Unknown
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“The predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that like attracts like. Consequently, the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as to correspond to its nature.” -Charles Haanel
“A bad attitude is like a flat tire; you can’t go anywhere until you change it.” -Author Unknown
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“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (1900 - 1944))
“‘You become what you think about’ is the foundation of your actions and reactions. What are your thoughts? Positive all the time? How are you guiding them?” -Jeffrey Gitomer (born 1946)
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“Declarations are powerful. If you declare that you are going to be an optimistic, upbeat person at all times, an interesting phenomenon takes place. When people expect you to be positive, you don’t want to let them down. You live your intentions every day - every minute.” -Neil Eskelin
“It’s all in the way you look at things.” -Norton Juster (born 1929)
“The world is a looking-glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.” -Author Unknown
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“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” -Michael McGriffy
“Choose your attitude! There is no single universal attitude that is right for everyone at all times and in all places. If humans were machines, our attitudes would not be changeable, but thankfully, we are not machines. Choose the attitude that is good for you in this time and place and change it in other circumstances as you like, keeping in mind that your attitude will affect others and your relationships with them, as well as ultimate outcomes and end results.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” -Harry F. Banks
“Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): as quoted in Edward Everett Hale: “Modern Achievement” (1902), Volume 7
“Your attitude is an outward expression of an inward feeling.” -Author Unknown
“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.” -John Steinbeck (John Ernst Steinbeck, Junior (1902 - 1968))
“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.” -Richard Cecil
“Change your attitude and change your life.” -Ann Bench
“High expectations are the key to everything.” -Sam Walton (Samuel Moore ‘Sam’ Walton (1918 - 1992))
“Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.jimrohn.com/
“A Great Attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great month which becomes a great year which becomes a great life.” -Mandy Hale (born 1978) at https://mandyhale.com
“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.” -John Donne (1572 - 1631)
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.” -Dennis Wholey (born 1939)
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“The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.” -André Godin
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” -Wayne Dyer (Wayne Walter Dyer (born 1940))
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“A healthy attitude is contagious; but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” -Tom Stoppard (born Tomás Straussler in 1937): as quoted in Jerry S. Beall: “There Will Always Be a Tree” (2010), page 54
“Let other people catch a healthy attitude from you.” -Jerry S. Beall: “There Will Always Be a Tree” (2010), page 54
“The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” -Author Unknown
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“Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.” -Daisy Bates (1863 - 1951)
“Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts.” -Author Unknown
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“The world can change in an instant. So can the way you choose to see it. Why not choose to see the good in yourself and others?” -Bob Perks
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” -Pat Riley
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on Earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
“The most significant change in a person’s life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.” -William J. Johnson
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“Be someone who finds something good in each day, and then share it with others.” -Author Unknown
“We attract what we habitually expect; we become what we deeply believe.” -William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994)
“A bad attitude is merely a reflection of how you feel about yourself.” -David Roppo
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“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832): “Faust” (1808)
“The world is a looking-glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.” -Author Unknown
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“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” -Michael McGriffy
“Choose your attitude! There is no single universal attitude that is right for everyone at all times and in all places. If humans were machines, our attitudes would not be changeable, but thankfully, we are not machines. Choose the attitude that is good for you in this time and place and change it in other circumstances as you like, keeping in mind that your attitude will affect others and your relationships with them, as well as ultimate outcomes and end results.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” -Harry F. Banks
“Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): as quoted in Edward Everett Hale: “Modern Achievement” (1902), Volume 7
“Your attitude is an outward expression of an inward feeling.” -Author Unknown
“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.” -John Steinbeck (John Ernst Steinbeck, Junior (1902 - 1968))
“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.” -Richard Cecil
“Change your attitude and change your life.” -Ann Bench
“High expectations are the key to everything.” -Sam Walton (Samuel Moore ‘Sam’ Walton (1918 - 1992))
“Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.jimrohn.com/
“A Great Attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great month which becomes a great year which becomes a great life.” -Mandy Hale (born 1978) at https://mandyhale.com
“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.” -John Donne (1572 - 1631)
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.” -Dennis Wholey (born 1939)
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“The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.” -André Godin
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” -Wayne Dyer (Wayne Walter Dyer (born 1940))
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“A healthy attitude is contagious; but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” -Tom Stoppard (born Tomás Straussler in 1937): as quoted in Jerry S. Beall: “There Will Always Be a Tree” (2010), page 54
“Let other people catch a healthy attitude from you.” -Jerry S. Beall: “There Will Always Be a Tree” (2010), page 54
“The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” -Author Unknown
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“Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.” -Daisy Bates (1863 - 1951)
“Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts.” -Author Unknown
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“The world can change in an instant. So can the way you choose to see it. Why not choose to see the good in yourself and others?” -Bob Perks
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” -Pat Riley
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on Earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
“The most significant change in a person’s life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.” -William J. Johnson
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“Be someone who finds something good in each day, and then share it with others.” -Author Unknown
“We attract what we habitually expect; we become what we deeply believe.” -William Arthur Ward (1921 - 1994)
“A bad attitude is merely a reflection of how you feel about yourself.” -David Roppo
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“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832): “Faust” (1808)
Formula For Living Successfully (It is easier than you might think!)
Assign each letter of the alphabet a number.
A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, and so forth all the way to Z = 26.
Next, we formulate equations as follows.
H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K = 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%.
K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E = 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%.
L+U+C+K = 12+21+3+11 = 47%.
You will notice that none of the above add up to 100%.
So, what does make 100%?
Is it BEING PERFECT? No!
Is it EDUCATION? No!
Is it FATE? No!
Is it GENETICS? No!
Is it MONEY? No!
Is it OTHER PEOPLE? No!
Our ‘ATTITUDE’ in life is what makes for success, as in A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E = 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%.
To refresh, ‘Attitude matters 100% in life.’ Now wasn’t that fun?
Every problem or condition has a solution, only if we are willing to change our ‘ATTITUDE.’
Assign each letter of the alphabet a number.
A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, and so forth all the way to Z = 26.
Next, we formulate equations as follows.
H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K = 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%.
K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E = 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%.
L+U+C+K = 12+21+3+11 = 47%.
You will notice that none of the above add up to 100%.
So, what does make 100%?
Is it BEING PERFECT? No!
Is it EDUCATION? No!
Is it FATE? No!
Is it GENETICS? No!
Is it MONEY? No!
Is it OTHER PEOPLE? No!
Our ‘ATTITUDE’ in life is what makes for success, as in A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E = 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%.
To refresh, ‘Attitude matters 100% in life.’ Now wasn’t that fun?
Every problem or condition has a solution, only if we are willing to change our ‘ATTITUDE.’
“Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your reality.” -Author Unknown
“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.” -Maurice Setter
“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.” -Katherine Mansfield at http://www.katherinemansfield.com/ (pseudonym of Kathleen Mansfield Murry (born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (1888 - 1923)))
“What is important to you is not so much the circumstances of your life as your attitude toward them.” -Ernest C. Wilson
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Do attitudes and expectations affect outcomes? According to proponents of the Rosenthal Effect, also known as the Pygmalion effect, higher expectations lead to an increase in performance, while conversely, low expectations lead to a decrease in performance. The idea is named after psychologist Robert Rosenthal (1933 - 2024).
“Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to, the door of success.” -Denis Waitley (Denis Edwin Waitley, Senior (born 1933)) at https://deniswaitley.com/
“When you focus on what’s wrong, you get more of what’s wrong. Conversely, when you focus on what’s right, you get more of what’s right.” -Gina Mollicone-Long
“I am responsible for my attitude. My attitude determines my actions.” -Author Unknown
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“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.” -Hannah Arendt (Johanna ‘Hannah’ Arendt (1906 - 1975))
“Attitude is everything.” -Author Unknown
“Negative attitudes bring negative results.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
“The word ‘lose’ simply stands for Lack Of Success Expectancy.” -Doug Firebaugh (born 1968)
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“Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021))
“Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” -Viktor E. Frankl (Viktor Emil Frankl (1905 - 1997))
“We don’t see things as they are, but as we are ourselves.” -Henry M. Tomlinson (1873 - 1958): “Out of Soundings” (1931), chapter 10
“There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference! The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002)) and Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970)): “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude” (1977), Chapter 18: ‘Can You Attract Happiness?’
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on Earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
“Our attitude is our personal boomerang to the world - Whatever we throw out will come back.” -Lee J. Colan: “Orchestrating Attitude” (2005), page 13
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“Attitudes are contagious - is yours worth catching?” -Author Unknown
“You don’t have to have a bad attitude to get a better one.” -Thomas D. Willhite (Thomas Dale Willhite (1940 - 1983))
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If all the World looks drear, perhaps the meaning
Is that your Windows need a little Cleaning.
-Arthur Guiterman (1871 - 1943): “A Poet’s Proverbs” (1924), ‘Of Cheeriness’
“Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.” -Franco Harris
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“Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.” -Paul Myer
“Attitude, more than aptitude, will determine your altitude in life.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
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“Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a positive mental attitude - your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon Hill (1883 - 1970))
“When you look for the beauty in all people and all things, you not only feel it, you become it.” -Author Unknown
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“In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): “The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In” (1897), page 2, ‘Library of Alexandria’
“Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.” -Vincent de Paul (1581 - 1660)
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“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” -Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
“Remember, a good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude fair results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.” -M. Russell Ballard: ‘Providing for Our Needs,’ as published in “Ensign” (May 1981), page 85
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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” -William James (1842 - 1910): as quoted in Norman Vincent Peale: “The Power of Positive Thinking” (1952)
“The most unknown, unused and unrecognized tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice.” -Mark Horton
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“A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“The right mindset changes everything.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Live up to the highest you know in all things.” -Mildred Mann (1904 - 1971)
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“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“You can do anything you set your mind to.” -Author Unknown
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We are MFOL! . . . searching for the right attitude while working day and night to exceed expectations . . .
“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.” -Maurice Setter
“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.” -Katherine Mansfield at http://www.katherinemansfield.com/ (pseudonym of Kathleen Mansfield Murry (born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (1888 - 1923)))
“What is important to you is not so much the circumstances of your life as your attitude toward them.” -Ernest C. Wilson
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Do attitudes and expectations affect outcomes? According to proponents of the Rosenthal Effect, also known as the Pygmalion effect, higher expectations lead to an increase in performance, while conversely, low expectations lead to a decrease in performance. The idea is named after psychologist Robert Rosenthal (1933 - 2024).
“Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to, the door of success.” -Denis Waitley (Denis Edwin Waitley, Senior (born 1933)) at https://deniswaitley.com/
“When you focus on what’s wrong, you get more of what’s wrong. Conversely, when you focus on what’s right, you get more of what’s right.” -Gina Mollicone-Long
“I am responsible for my attitude. My attitude determines my actions.” -Author Unknown
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“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.” -Hannah Arendt (Johanna ‘Hannah’ Arendt (1906 - 1975))
“Attitude is everything.” -Author Unknown
“Negative attitudes bring negative results.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
“The word ‘lose’ simply stands for Lack Of Success Expectancy.” -Doug Firebaugh (born 1968)
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“Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021))
“Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” -Viktor E. Frankl (Viktor Emil Frankl (1905 - 1997))
“We don’t see things as they are, but as we are ourselves.” -Henry M. Tomlinson (1873 - 1958): “Out of Soundings” (1931), chapter 10
“There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference! The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002)) and Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970)): “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude” (1977), Chapter 18: ‘Can You Attract Happiness?’
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on Earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
“Our attitude is our personal boomerang to the world - Whatever we throw out will come back.” -Lee J. Colan: “Orchestrating Attitude” (2005), page 13
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“Attitudes are contagious - is yours worth catching?” -Author Unknown
“You don’t have to have a bad attitude to get a better one.” -Thomas D. Willhite (Thomas Dale Willhite (1940 - 1983))
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If all the World looks drear, perhaps the meaning
Is that your Windows need a little Cleaning.
-Arthur Guiterman (1871 - 1943): “A Poet’s Proverbs” (1924), ‘Of Cheeriness’
“Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.” -Franco Harris
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“Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.” -Paul Myer
“Attitude, more than aptitude, will determine your altitude in life.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
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“Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a positive mental attitude - your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon Hill (1883 - 1970))
“When you look for the beauty in all people and all things, you not only feel it, you become it.” -Author Unknown
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“In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): “The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In” (1897), page 2, ‘Library of Alexandria’
“Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.” -Vincent de Paul (1581 - 1660)
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“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” -Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
“Remember, a good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude fair results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.” -M. Russell Ballard: ‘Providing for Our Needs,’ as published in “Ensign” (May 1981), page 85
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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” -William James (1842 - 1910): as quoted in Norman Vincent Peale: “The Power of Positive Thinking” (1952)
“The most unknown, unused and unrecognized tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice.” -Mark Horton
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“A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“The right mindset changes everything.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Live up to the highest you know in all things.” -Mildred Mann (1904 - 1971)
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“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“You can do anything you set your mind to.” -Author Unknown
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We are MFOL! . . . searching for the right attitude while working day and night to exceed expectations . . .
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cackle maniacally, and people back away from you slowly.” -Author Unknown
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Witches Brew
Dash of bat whiskers
Three purple tadpoles
Dollop of goobly goop
One teaspoon frozen rainbow
Two pinches of ghost dust
Sprinkle with troll teeth
Mix thoroughly and simmer
Over low heat for 4 hours
Serve ice cold.
By Author Unknown
Angie: Why do witches wear pointy hats?
Angelica: To cover their pointy heads.
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The word ‘witch’ is derived from the Old English words ‘wicca’ meaning ‘wise man’ and ‘wicce’ meaning ‘wise woman.’
Corey: What is evil and goes around and around?
Courtney: A witch on a merry-go-round.
Apparently, even witches get lonely for the company of their own kind. Thus, they gather into ‘covens,’ of between two and thirteen witches. The word ‘coven’ was mostly unused in the English language until 1921, when Margaret Murray advanced the idea that witches across Europe met in groups of 13, which they call covens. When covens gather, they engage in communication with the spirit world, rituals, chants, sharing of news and gossip and recipes for potions and spells, and possibly whatever else your imagination is suggesting to you right now.
Ace: Why do witches carry black cats on their brooms?
Tex: Because elephants weigh too much.
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Bonnie: Why does everyone at witches’ conventions wear a nametag?
Lonnie: So they can tell which witch is which witch.
“There’s a little witch in all of us.” -Alice Hoffman (born 1952): “Practical Magic” (1995), words of character Aunt Jet Owens, at AliceHoffman.com
Jeremiah: What sound does a witch’s car make?
Hezekiah: Broom, broom.
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Sign: Witch Parking Only - All Others Will Be Toad.
Velma: What do you call a witch who can’t make up her mind whether to turn you into a frog or a toad?
Wilma: Witchy-washy.
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Cecil: How do witches keep their hair in place while flying?
Celeste: They use scare-spray.
Dora: What did the little witch hope to get for her birthday?
Laura: A haunted dollhouse!
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In 2013, Swaziland passed a law prohibiting witches from flying above an altitude of 150 meters (492 feet). Would you say that this law is unfair?
Bill: Have you heard about the good weather witch?
Penny: Yes, and she’s forecasting sunny spells!
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“What if ‘witch’ is only a word applied to a person who believes in ‘the old ways’ and who is unjustly persecuted by malicious people who have ill will toward the person and by crazed zealots who want the old ways to no longer exist?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Ted: How do you make a witch itch?
Todd: Just take away the ‘w.’
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We would not want to attract the ire of any witches, but here is a little secret about the ways of harmless good witches: The ingredients they use in their potions and other concoctions are extraordinarily ordinary, but they give the ingredients fantastic names to keep their recipes secret. So for example, bat wings might really be leaves of cloves, and eye of newt might actually be pearl onions. Some folks just find having secrets makes their lives more interesting - that plus ‘secret recipes’ fetch a higher price in the marketplace than regular ones. On the other hand, malevolent or bad witches might actually use real scales of snakes and warts of toads and hairs of hares in their recipes.
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Witches Brew
Dash of bat whiskers
Three purple tadpoles
Dollop of goobly goop
One teaspoon frozen rainbow
Two pinches of ghost dust
Sprinkle with troll teeth
Mix thoroughly and simmer
Over low heat for 4 hours
Serve ice cold.
By Author Unknown
Angie: Why do witches wear pointy hats?
Angelica: To cover their pointy heads.
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The word ‘witch’ is derived from the Old English words ‘wicca’ meaning ‘wise man’ and ‘wicce’ meaning ‘wise woman.’
Corey: What is evil and goes around and around?
Courtney: A witch on a merry-go-round.
Apparently, even witches get lonely for the company of their own kind. Thus, they gather into ‘covens,’ of between two and thirteen witches. The word ‘coven’ was mostly unused in the English language until 1921, when Margaret Murray advanced the idea that witches across Europe met in groups of 13, which they call covens. When covens gather, they engage in communication with the spirit world, rituals, chants, sharing of news and gossip and recipes for potions and spells, and possibly whatever else your imagination is suggesting to you right now.
Ace: Why do witches carry black cats on their brooms?
Tex: Because elephants weigh too much.
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Bonnie: Why does everyone at witches’ conventions wear a nametag?
Lonnie: So they can tell which witch is which witch.
“There’s a little witch in all of us.” -Alice Hoffman (born 1952): “Practical Magic” (1995), words of character Aunt Jet Owens, at AliceHoffman.com
Jeremiah: What sound does a witch’s car make?
Hezekiah: Broom, broom.
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Sign: Witch Parking Only - All Others Will Be Toad.
Velma: What do you call a witch who can’t make up her mind whether to turn you into a frog or a toad?
Wilma: Witchy-washy.
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Cecil: How do witches keep their hair in place while flying?
Celeste: They use scare-spray.
Dora: What did the little witch hope to get for her birthday?
Laura: A haunted dollhouse!
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In 2013, Swaziland passed a law prohibiting witches from flying above an altitude of 150 meters (492 feet). Would you say that this law is unfair?
Bill: Have you heard about the good weather witch?
Penny: Yes, and she’s forecasting sunny spells!
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“What if ‘witch’ is only a word applied to a person who believes in ‘the old ways’ and who is unjustly persecuted by malicious people who have ill will toward the person and by crazed zealots who want the old ways to no longer exist?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Ted: How do you make a witch itch?
Todd: Just take away the ‘w.’
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We would not want to attract the ire of any witches, but here is a little secret about the ways of harmless good witches: The ingredients they use in their potions and other concoctions are extraordinarily ordinary, but they give the ingredients fantastic names to keep their recipes secret. So for example, bat wings might really be leaves of cloves, and eye of newt might actually be pearl onions. Some folks just find having secrets makes their lives more interesting - that plus ‘secret recipes’ fetch a higher price in the marketplace than regular ones. On the other hand, malevolent or bad witches might actually use real scales of snakes and warts of toads and hairs of hares in their recipes.
At MFOL! we do all of our own stunts, but we must remind folks that flying through the air on a broom involves significant risk, and should be done only after lengthy training, and unlike the young man shown in the image above, should be done while wearing protective gear including a helmet, goggles, and a parachute.
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Wiccaphobia is a persistent fear of witches and witchcraft. Wow, there’s a word for nearly everything, isn’t there?
“The riches of witches are flying brooms, black cats, cookery with cauldrons, loud clear cackles, the camaraderie of covens - and spells that cause itches!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Witch: An apothecary who keeps a black cat and a flying broom and a cauldron, for showmanship. Apothecary: a person who prepares and sells medicines.
Overheard: Witch doctors aren’t just for witches anymore.
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Helen Duncan, a medium, or a person who purports to communicate with the spirit world, was arrested in 1944 in Portsmouth, England. She had been arrested originally for the catch-all charge of vagrancy, but when she came up for trial at the Old Bailey, the police promptly added the charge of witchcraft, and she was tried under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. Her case is the last known instance of a person in England being tried by law as a witch.
Shelia: Where does a witch park her broom after she is done flying?
Ophelia: In a broom closet.
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Would you be willing to entertain the possibility that witches, along with warlocks, wizards, sorcerers, and sorceresses are not real, but are creations wholly of human imagination? This would mean that some people might like to pretend that they are these things, and some people might accuse other people of being these things, and though they might indeed be either good people or bad people, they are not really witches, warlocks, wizards, sorcerers, or sorceresses.
Mathilda: Why do witches fly on brooms?
Hilda: Because nature abhors a vacuum.
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According to some people, if you wear your clothes inside out and walk backwards on Halloween, you will see a witch at midnight. We strongly advise against doing this, because it could result in tripping, falling, and serious injury. Instead, anyone wanting to see a witch should watch the movie “Hocus Pocus” (1993). It is rated ‘PG’ for ‘Parental Guidance’ advised; however, like all entertainment, it should be reviewed and approved by parents or other grownups for suitability before their children are allowed to see it.
Sal: What kind of pets do witches have?
Les: Scaredy cats!
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Felicia: What do little witches eat?
Felicity: Alpha-bat soup!
“Witch doctor: An alternative health practitioner.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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The cat, frog, pig, raven, goat, wolf, bat, and mouse were believed to be a witch’s ‘familiar,’ or a spirit in animal form that was used by a witch to perform evil deeds and cast malevolent spells.
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Wiccaphobia is a persistent fear of witches and witchcraft. Wow, there’s a word for nearly everything, isn’t there?
“The riches of witches are flying brooms, black cats, cookery with cauldrons, loud clear cackles, the camaraderie of covens - and spells that cause itches!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Witch: An apothecary who keeps a black cat and a flying broom and a cauldron, for showmanship. Apothecary: a person who prepares and sells medicines.
Overheard: Witch doctors aren’t just for witches anymore.
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Helen Duncan, a medium, or a person who purports to communicate with the spirit world, was arrested in 1944 in Portsmouth, England. She had been arrested originally for the catch-all charge of vagrancy, but when she came up for trial at the Old Bailey, the police promptly added the charge of witchcraft, and she was tried under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. Her case is the last known instance of a person in England being tried by law as a witch.
Shelia: Where does a witch park her broom after she is done flying?
Ophelia: In a broom closet.
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Would you be willing to entertain the possibility that witches, along with warlocks, wizards, sorcerers, and sorceresses are not real, but are creations wholly of human imagination? This would mean that some people might like to pretend that they are these things, and some people might accuse other people of being these things, and though they might indeed be either good people or bad people, they are not really witches, warlocks, wizards, sorcerers, or sorceresses.
Mathilda: Why do witches fly on brooms?
Hilda: Because nature abhors a vacuum.
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According to some people, if you wear your clothes inside out and walk backwards on Halloween, you will see a witch at midnight. We strongly advise against doing this, because it could result in tripping, falling, and serious injury. Instead, anyone wanting to see a witch should watch the movie “Hocus Pocus” (1993). It is rated ‘PG’ for ‘Parental Guidance’ advised; however, like all entertainment, it should be reviewed and approved by parents or other grownups for suitability before their children are allowed to see it.
Sal: What kind of pets do witches have?
Les: Scaredy cats!
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Felicia: What do little witches eat?
Felicity: Alpha-bat soup!
“Witch doctor: An alternative health practitioner.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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The cat, frog, pig, raven, goat, wolf, bat, and mouse were believed to be a witch’s ‘familiar,’ or a spirit in animal form that was used by a witch to perform evil deeds and cast malevolent spells.
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Sandy: What does a witch call for when she checks into a hotel?
Sandra: Broom service.
Lily: What do you get if you cross a witch with Wintertime?
Lilith: A cold spell.
Wanda: How does a witch make scrambled eggs?
Wendy: She cracks eggs into a pan and gets two other witches to make the stove shake with fright. Then she cackles just like a chicken!
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What is the Witching Hour? The hour after midnight, when witches and other supernatural beings are thought to be active, and to which bad luck is ascribed, is called ‘the witching hour’ in folkloric tradition. All honest mortals are to be found at home fast asleep in bed at this time of night, and not wandering about in the dark.
Donny: How does a witch tell time?
Donald: By looking at her witch-watch.
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“When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.” -Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719): as quoted in “The Spectator” (1711 - 1714), Number 117 (14 July 1711)
Wilfred: What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
Mildred: A sand witch.
“I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don’t have names.” -Helen Oyeyemi: “White is for Witching”
Rachel: What do witches put on their bagels?
Michael: Scream cheese!
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Simon: What do you call two witches on one broom?
Cinnamon: Broommates.
“‘A witch ought never be frightened in the darkest forest,’ Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.” -Terry Pratchett: “Wintersmith” (2006)
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Wilma: How can you imagine yourself flying on a broom?
Wilfred: Just engage in witchful thinking!
Sandra: Broom service.
Lily: What do you get if you cross a witch with Wintertime?
Lilith: A cold spell.
Wanda: How does a witch make scrambled eggs?
Wendy: She cracks eggs into a pan and gets two other witches to make the stove shake with fright. Then she cackles just like a chicken!
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What is the Witching Hour? The hour after midnight, when witches and other supernatural beings are thought to be active, and to which bad luck is ascribed, is called ‘the witching hour’ in folkloric tradition. All honest mortals are to be found at home fast asleep in bed at this time of night, and not wandering about in the dark.
Donny: How does a witch tell time?
Donald: By looking at her witch-watch.
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“When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.” -Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719): as quoted in “The Spectator” (1711 - 1714), Number 117 (14 July 1711)
Wilfred: What do you call a witch who lives at the beach?
Mildred: A sand witch.
“I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don’t have names.” -Helen Oyeyemi: “White is for Witching”
Rachel: What do witches put on their bagels?
Michael: Scream cheese!
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Simon: What do you call two witches on one broom?
Cinnamon: Broommates.
“‘A witch ought never be frightened in the darkest forest,’ Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.” -Terry Pratchett: “Wintersmith” (2006)
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Wilma: How can you imagine yourself flying on a broom?
Wilfred: Just engage in witchful thinking!
All:
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch:
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a Hell-broth boil and bubble.
All:
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
By William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Macbeth” (1606), Act IV, scene 1 [A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron], lines 1557 through 1568
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Second Witch:
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a Hell-broth boil and bubble.
All:
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
By William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Macbeth” (1606), Act IV, scene 1 [A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron], lines 1557 through 1568
Irwin: How many witches does it take to change a light bulb?
Irving: Just one, but she changes it into a toad!
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“Mortified: A witch’s reaction upon being mortalized, or being changed into a mere mortal.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Cora: What is a witch’s favorite subject in school?
Corey: Spelling!
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Emma: What bounces and cackles?
Emmit: A witch on a trampoline!
A warlock, or a man-witch, went to the doctor one day complaining of headaches. “It’s because I live in a room with two of my brothers,” he said. “One of them has six goats and the other has four pigs and they all live in the room with us. The smell is terrible.” “Well, couldn’t you just open the windows?” asked the doctor. “Certainly not,” he replied. “My bats would fly out!”
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Ollie: What do witches like to do on the computer?
Oliver: Use the ‘spell’ checker.
Irving: Just one, but she changes it into a toad!
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“Mortified: A witch’s reaction upon being mortalized, or being changed into a mere mortal.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Cora: What is a witch’s favorite subject in school?
Corey: Spelling!
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Emma: What bounces and cackles?
Emmit: A witch on a trampoline!
A warlock, or a man-witch, went to the doctor one day complaining of headaches. “It’s because I live in a room with two of my brothers,” he said. “One of them has six goats and the other has four pigs and they all live in the room with us. The smell is terrible.” “Well, couldn’t you just open the windows?” asked the doctor. “Certainly not,” he replied. “My bats would fly out!”
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Ollie: What do witches like to do on the computer?
Oliver: Use the ‘spell’ checker.
Hilda: Why don’t witches like to ride their brooms when they’re angry?
Mathilda: They’re afraid they might fly off the handle.
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“The witch knows nothing in this world is supernatural. It is all natural.” -Laurie Cabot
Ruben: What do witches say when they cast the wrong spell?
Benjamin: “Hexcuse me!”
“Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” -J.R.R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892 - 1973)): “The Fellowship of the Ring” (1954), book I, chapter 3
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Marcy: What has four wheels and flies?
Marcella: A witch on a vacuum cleaner!
Overheard: The local witch once threatened to turn me into a toad, but she changed her mind after thinking it over. She said it would be a waste of a perfectly good spell because no one would notice any change in my appearance!
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What should you do if a geometric witch puts a hexagon you?
Darcy: How does a witch lose the weight gained from eating Halloween candy?
Darla: She hex-ercises.
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“I am a witch. A real house-haunting, broom-riding, cauldron-stirring witch.” -Samantha Stephens: “Bewitched”
Josie: What has six legs and flies?
Joey: A witch and a cat on a broom!
“Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.” -Ray Bradbury: “The April Witch”
Rutherford: How can you tell twin witches apart?
Ruth: You can never really tell which witch is which.
Mathilda: They’re afraid they might fly off the handle.
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“The witch knows nothing in this world is supernatural. It is all natural.” -Laurie Cabot
Ruben: What do witches say when they cast the wrong spell?
Benjamin: “Hexcuse me!”
“Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” -J.R.R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892 - 1973)): “The Fellowship of the Ring” (1954), book I, chapter 3
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Marcy: What has four wheels and flies?
Marcella: A witch on a vacuum cleaner!
Overheard: The local witch once threatened to turn me into a toad, but she changed her mind after thinking it over. She said it would be a waste of a perfectly good spell because no one would notice any change in my appearance!
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What should you do if a geometric witch puts a hexagon you?
Darcy: How does a witch lose the weight gained from eating Halloween candy?
Darla: She hex-ercises.
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“I am a witch. A real house-haunting, broom-riding, cauldron-stirring witch.” -Samantha Stephens: “Bewitched”
Josie: What has six legs and flies?
Joey: A witch and a cat on a broom!
“Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.” -Ray Bradbury: “The April Witch”
Rutherford: How can you tell twin witches apart?
Ruth: You can never really tell which witch is which.
Witches’ Menu
Live lizard, dead lizard
Marinated, fried.
Poached lizard, pickled lizard
Salty lizard hide.
Hot lizard, cold lizard
Lizard over ice.
Baked lizard, boiled lizard
Lizard served with spice.
Sweet lizard, sour lizard
Smoked lizard heart.
Leg of lizard, loin of lizard
Lizard a la carte.
By Sonja Nikolay (born 1936)
Live lizard, dead lizard
Marinated, fried.
Poached lizard, pickled lizard
Salty lizard hide.
Hot lizard, cold lizard
Lizard over ice.
Baked lizard, boiled lizard
Lizard served with spice.
Sweet lizard, sour lizard
Smoked lizard heart.
Leg of lizard, loin of lizard
Lizard a la carte.
By Sonja Nikolay (born 1936)
Lynne: Which cartoon do witches like to watch on television?
Linda: “The Scare Bears.”
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What are witches, and why do some people harm them in words and deeds? Mostly spinsters and widows, so-called ‘witches’ of the present time and historically have been elderly or poor women and less commonly men with limited means, so boiled lizard’s tails, bird’s feet, roots dug from the soil, and anything else they could scavenge or gather would be preferable to starvation. People who are different from them have engaged in persecuting them, motivated by fear and desire to steal property: fear that witches might teach the old ways, such as living in close kinship to nature and practicing natural healing for sickness or injury. To stop the spreading of their knowledge to children, the others scared children away by telling them the lie that witches eat children. Greed for power over others and greed to take others’ property away, like the houses and lands left to them by their deceased husbands or other relatives, motivated the people who oppressed and persecuted the ‘witches,’ who were in fact, not witches, but simply older or poor folks who were often alone, frail, and simply trying their best to survive. The accusations by some humans against others humans, calling them by the name ‘witch’ and similar names and inventing vicious lies about them, has led to the harming of large numbers of innocent people throughout human history and right up to the present day.
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Mandy: Why do witches fly on brooms?
Manetta: Because vacuum cleaners are too heavy.
Tongue twister: If two witches watched two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
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“For all you know, a witch may be living next door to you right now.” -Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990): “The Witches” (1983)
“Remember, ‘Peace on earth, goodwill to men,’ includes witches.” -Samantha Stephens: “Bewitched”
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Judy: What did one witch say to the other witch when she asked for a lift?
Trudy: “There’s always plenty of broom for one more.”
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Linda: “The Scare Bears.”
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What are witches, and why do some people harm them in words and deeds? Mostly spinsters and widows, so-called ‘witches’ of the present time and historically have been elderly or poor women and less commonly men with limited means, so boiled lizard’s tails, bird’s feet, roots dug from the soil, and anything else they could scavenge or gather would be preferable to starvation. People who are different from them have engaged in persecuting them, motivated by fear and desire to steal property: fear that witches might teach the old ways, such as living in close kinship to nature and practicing natural healing for sickness or injury. To stop the spreading of their knowledge to children, the others scared children away by telling them the lie that witches eat children. Greed for power over others and greed to take others’ property away, like the houses and lands left to them by their deceased husbands or other relatives, motivated the people who oppressed and persecuted the ‘witches,’ who were in fact, not witches, but simply older or poor folks who were often alone, frail, and simply trying their best to survive. The accusations by some humans against others humans, calling them by the name ‘witch’ and similar names and inventing vicious lies about them, has led to the harming of large numbers of innocent people throughout human history and right up to the present day.
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Mandy: Why do witches fly on brooms?
Manetta: Because vacuum cleaners are too heavy.
Tongue twister: If two witches watched two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
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“For all you know, a witch may be living next door to you right now.” -Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990): “The Witches” (1983)
“Remember, ‘Peace on earth, goodwill to men,’ includes witches.” -Samantha Stephens: “Bewitched”
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Judy: What did one witch say to the other witch when she asked for a lift?
Trudy: “There’s always plenty of broom for one more.”
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Humans are bioluminescent, meaning we glow in the dark, but the light we emit is 1,000 times weaker than our human eyes are able to detect.
Curious Young Gal
There was a young gal who said, “Why
Can’t I look in my ear with my eye?
If I put my mind to it,
I’m sure I can do it;
You never can tell till you try.”
By Author Unknown
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The elements oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen make up 90 percent of the human body. The remaining 10 percent is made up of hamsters running on hamster wheels that electro-mechanically enable the body to do things like stand up, walk around, open and close the mouth, yawn, and blink.
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different. Now stick out your tongue and say, “Aaaaaaaaahhh!”
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“It’s anything but amusing when your funny-bone gets hit.” -Author Unknown
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Ears.
Ears, who?
Ears looking at you, kid!
“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.” -Lyall Watson (1939 - 2008)
Gladys: What kind of advice do you get from hands?
Douglas: Finger tips.
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If your DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) were stretched out, it could reach to the Earth’s Moon 6,000 times - but would you really want to visit the Moon that often?
Nellie: What did one toe say to the other?
Stella: “Don’t look now, but I think we’re being followed by a heel.”
In addition to the better-known senses of hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste, humans have at least fifteen other senses. These include balance, temperature, pain, and time, as well as internal senses for suffocation, thirst, and fullness. Some humans have also been found to have a sense of humor.
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The human brain is 70 percent cholesterol . . . and the experts are telling you to cut back on cholesterol - do you see a potential problem with their advice? That’s right, they seem to want you to have a smaller brain!
There was a young lady whose chin
Resembled the point of a pin;
So she had it made sharp,
And purchased a harp,
And played several tunes with her chin.
-Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
“The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The words for ten human body parts have only three letters: eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, and gum.
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The normal human body temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius (about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit). However, it is not uncommon for the temperature of some persons to be just slightly higher by as much as a degree due to their increased metabolism - particularly teenagers and young adults. As always, if you are concerned, seek a doctor’s opinion.
Human Anatomical Redesign Possibilities
- All joints double-jointed
- Elbow caps similar to kneecaps
- Eyes in the back of the head
- Fins
- Flight propeller on top of head
- Gills
- Two thumbs on each hand
- Wings
- Wheels
What would you like to add to this list?
Are you ready for your Anatomy And Physiology Quiz? It’s simple, really, just correctly spell the misspelled words in the picture shown below.
Curious Young Gal
There was a young gal who said, “Why
Can’t I look in my ear with my eye?
If I put my mind to it,
I’m sure I can do it;
You never can tell till you try.”
By Author Unknown
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The elements oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen make up 90 percent of the human body. The remaining 10 percent is made up of hamsters running on hamster wheels that electro-mechanically enable the body to do things like stand up, walk around, open and close the mouth, yawn, and blink.
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different. Now stick out your tongue and say, “Aaaaaaaaahhh!”
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“It’s anything but amusing when your funny-bone gets hit.” -Author Unknown
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Ears.
Ears, who?
Ears looking at you, kid!
“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.” -Lyall Watson (1939 - 2008)
Gladys: What kind of advice do you get from hands?
Douglas: Finger tips.
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If your DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) were stretched out, it could reach to the Earth’s Moon 6,000 times - but would you really want to visit the Moon that often?
Nellie: What did one toe say to the other?
Stella: “Don’t look now, but I think we’re being followed by a heel.”
In addition to the better-known senses of hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste, humans have at least fifteen other senses. These include balance, temperature, pain, and time, as well as internal senses for suffocation, thirst, and fullness. Some humans have also been found to have a sense of humor.
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The human brain is 70 percent cholesterol . . . and the experts are telling you to cut back on cholesterol - do you see a potential problem with their advice? That’s right, they seem to want you to have a smaller brain!
There was a young lady whose chin
Resembled the point of a pin;
So she had it made sharp,
And purchased a harp,
And played several tunes with her chin.
-Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
“The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The words for ten human body parts have only three letters: eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, and gum.
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The normal human body temperature is about 37 degrees Celsius (about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit). However, it is not uncommon for the temperature of some persons to be just slightly higher by as much as a degree due to their increased metabolism - particularly teenagers and young adults. As always, if you are concerned, seek a doctor’s opinion.
Human Anatomical Redesign Possibilities
- All joints double-jointed
- Elbow caps similar to kneecaps
- Eyes in the back of the head
- Fins
- Flight propeller on top of head
- Gills
- Two thumbs on each hand
- Wings
- Wheels
What would you like to add to this list?
Are you ready for your Anatomy And Physiology Quiz? It’s simple, really, just correctly spell the misspelled words in the picture shown below.
Wow, that was really difficult. Good job! Now on to something easier . . .
Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech. Be sure to give those muscles a real workout today.
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The average human body contains enough iron to make a 3-inch nail, enough sulfur to kill all of the fleas on an average dog, enough carbon to make 900 pencils, enough potassium to fire a toy cannon, enough fat to make 7 bars of soap, enough phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and enough water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
Did you know that it is physically impossible for you to lick your own elbows? Go ahead and try it - just do not injure yourself!
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“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.” -Thomas Edison (Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931))
“Shin: A specialized anatomical feature of the human body designed for finding furniture in the dark.” -Author Unknown
The human liver has more than 500 functions. Getting you to the airport to catch your next flight and washing the dog are not among them.
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A condition called ‘synesthesia’ can cause the senses to overlap, so that affected people may taste words or hear colors.
People with hexadectylism have six fingers or six toes on one or both hands or feet. This might give them a significant advantage over the rest of us when it comes to typing and texting and other activities involving manual dexterity.
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The human nose can detect a trillion smells!
“A nose that can see is worth two that can sniff.” -Eugène Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu (1909 - 1944)) at https://www.ionesco.de/homepage.html
Why can humans move their eyes in opposite directions toward their noses, but not in opposite directions away from the noses?
“Not everyone can wiggle their ears, you know. It’s something you’re born with.” -Kevin Henkes (born 1960): “Sun and Spoon” (1997) at https://KevinHenkes.com
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The average person has 10,000 taste buds. Not all taste buds are on the tongue; about ten percent are on the insides of the cheeks. So, what does your tongue taste like?
Nonsense Poem
I’d rather have fingers than toes,
I’d rather have eyes than a nose;
And as for my hair
I’m glad it’s all there,
I’ll be awfully sad when it goes.
By Gelett Burgess (Frank Gelett ‘Gelett’ Burgess (1866 - 1951))
“The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.” -Charles H. Parkhurst (Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842 - 1933))
Riddle: What can you hold in your right hand that you cannot hold in your left hand?
Solution: Your left elbow.
About eight percent of people have an extra rib, which is not really all that interesting - unless you happen to be a cannibal.
Our bodies burn a large amount of calories just to keep us at a steady 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit). The human body gives off enough heat in thirty minutes to bring two liters (a little more than two quarts or half a gallon) of water to a boil. If you could capture and use the heat, you could cook a pasta dinner with it. First, though, you will need some kind of mad scientist laboratory . . .
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Kerry: What should you do if your ear rings?
Karen: Answer it.
Lizzie: How do you keep your ear from ringing continuously?
Beth: Get an unlisted head.
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Humans are said to have fifty percent of their DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) in common with bananas. Perhaps we should get to better know the elongated yellow fruit with which we have so much in common?
A Boastful Young Person
“I can pick up a cent with my toes,”
Said a boastful young person named Mose,
But sharp-witted Millie
Replied, “That’s just silly -
I can do the same thing with my nose.”
By Author Unknown
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Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech. Be sure to give those muscles a real workout today.
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The average human body contains enough iron to make a 3-inch nail, enough sulfur to kill all of the fleas on an average dog, enough carbon to make 900 pencils, enough potassium to fire a toy cannon, enough fat to make 7 bars of soap, enough phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and enough water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
Did you know that it is physically impossible for you to lick your own elbows? Go ahead and try it - just do not injure yourself!
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“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.” -Thomas Edison (Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931))
“Shin: A specialized anatomical feature of the human body designed for finding furniture in the dark.” -Author Unknown
The human liver has more than 500 functions. Getting you to the airport to catch your next flight and washing the dog are not among them.
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A condition called ‘synesthesia’ can cause the senses to overlap, so that affected people may taste words or hear colors.
People with hexadectylism have six fingers or six toes on one or both hands or feet. This might give them a significant advantage over the rest of us when it comes to typing and texting and other activities involving manual dexterity.
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The human nose can detect a trillion smells!
“A nose that can see is worth two that can sniff.” -Eugène Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu (1909 - 1944)) at https://www.ionesco.de/homepage.html
Why can humans move their eyes in opposite directions toward their noses, but not in opposite directions away from the noses?
“Not everyone can wiggle their ears, you know. It’s something you’re born with.” -Kevin Henkes (born 1960): “Sun and Spoon” (1997) at https://KevinHenkes.com
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The average person has 10,000 taste buds. Not all taste buds are on the tongue; about ten percent are on the insides of the cheeks. So, what does your tongue taste like?
Nonsense Poem
I’d rather have fingers than toes,
I’d rather have eyes than a nose;
And as for my hair
I’m glad it’s all there,
I’ll be awfully sad when it goes.
By Gelett Burgess (Frank Gelett ‘Gelett’ Burgess (1866 - 1951))
“The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.” -Charles H. Parkhurst (Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842 - 1933))
Riddle: What can you hold in your right hand that you cannot hold in your left hand?
Solution: Your left elbow.
About eight percent of people have an extra rib, which is not really all that interesting - unless you happen to be a cannibal.
Our bodies burn a large amount of calories just to keep us at a steady 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit). The human body gives off enough heat in thirty minutes to bring two liters (a little more than two quarts or half a gallon) of water to a boil. If you could capture and use the heat, you could cook a pasta dinner with it. First, though, you will need some kind of mad scientist laboratory . . .
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Kerry: What should you do if your ear rings?
Karen: Answer it.
Lizzie: How do you keep your ear from ringing continuously?
Beth: Get an unlisted head.
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Humans are said to have fifty percent of their DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) in common with bananas. Perhaps we should get to better know the elongated yellow fruit with which we have so much in common?
A Boastful Young Person
“I can pick up a cent with my toes,”
Said a boastful young person named Mose,
But sharp-witted Millie
Replied, “That’s just silly -
I can do the same thing with my nose.”
By Author Unknown
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The Operation Game features an Adam’s apple, broken heart, wrenched ankle, butterflies in the stomach, spareribs, water on the knee, funny bone, writer’s cramp, Charley horse, anklebone connected to the knee bone, wishbone, breadbasket, and brain freeze. Players attempt to remove each of these ailments from the patient, named Cavity Sam. The regular-size game can be purchased from www.Hasbro.com.
Becca: What has one foot on each end and a foot in the middle?
Becky: A yardstick.
Ahead: The thing on top of your neck.
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Joseph: Why is your nose in the middle of your face?
Joe: Because it is the ‘scenter.’
Hair is made of the same substance as fingernails, but you cannot make that fun screeching sound that drives everyone bonkers by running your hair over a chalkboard; only your fingernails can do that.
At any given time, your brain can generate up to 25 watts of power - enough energy to make a light bulb come on. You are indeed more powerful than you might have known!
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“The nose is that part of the body that shines, snubs, snoops, and sneezes.” -Author Unknown
“Fingerprints serve another useful function besides helping law enforcement officers catch criminals: the tiny ridges provide traction for the fingers to grasp objects. Fingers are among the many ‘tools’ integrated into our bodies, making humans the ultimate Swiss Army knives of the animal kingdom.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Your Nose Is Running
“Your nose is running,” Mother said.
I answered, “Wow! That’s really neat!”
“Why’s that?” she asked. I said, “Because
I never knew my nose had feet.”
By Jeff Moss (Jeffrey Arnold ‘Jeff’ Moss (1942 - 1998)): “The Other Side of the Door: Poems” (1991)
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If the human brain were a computer, it would perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. One of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, Blue Gene, can manage only 0.002 percent of that amount.
Sharon: How do you keep your feet from falling asleep?
Sherry: Wear loud socks.
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Veronica: What has a head but no brain?
Vera: A cabbage.
The human body has more than 600 muscles, which make up 40 percent of the body’s weight. Our muscles are actually much more powerful than they may seem to be. Human strength is usually limited to prevent our tendons and muscles from tearing themselves apart; however, this limitation can be overcome in an adrenaline rush, during which there are recorded instances of people lifting heavy boulders and even automobiles off people and animals that have been trapped under them.
Brain: I’m tired of doing all the work around here!
Muscles: What are you talking about?
A typical adult human is made up of more than 37,200,000,000,000 (37.2 trillion) living cells made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms. For perspective, the Milky Way Galaxy has a mere 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) stars. Every year, about 98 percent of the atoms in human bodies are replaced by new ones. Now you finally know what is meant by the phrase ‘a whole new you.’
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Riddle: What has fingers and thumbs but no hands?
Solution: A glove.
Human blood has roughly the same concentration of salt that seawater has.
Sit down and lift your right foot off the floor, and make clockwise circles. While doing this, draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand. Your foot will automatically change direction, and there is nothing you can do to stop it from doing so. Someone - and by someone we mean you - just kidding! - should investigate this phenomena to find out if it is in any way related to the rise in incidents of people hitting their accelerator pedals when they mean to hit their brake pedals, while steering a moving vehicle.
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Riddle: What can clap without using hands?
Solution: Thunder.
“A sharp nose indicates curiosity, and a flat nose indicates . . . too much curiosity!” -Author Unknown
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The bump at the front of the throat is called the Adam’s Apple, which is said to be from the forbidden fruit getting stuck in Adam’s throat as he ate it in the Garden of Eden.
Lionel: What has four legs and one arm?
Lynette: A happy guard dog!
The human body is divided into three parts: the Brainium, the Borax, and the Abominable Cavity. The Brainium contains the Brain. The Borax contains the Lungs, the Heart, the Liver, and the Living Things. The Abominable Cavity contains the Bowels, of which there are five: A, E, I, O, and U.
Riddle: What has a head and mouth, but no eyes, nose, or ears?
Solution: A river.
Fingertip to fingertip, the width of your arm-span stretched out equals the length of your whole body from head to foot, which means you come pretty close to meeting the definition of a ‘square.’
Jenny: What has two legs, two arms, and two heads?
Jennifer: A two-headed monster.
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“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.” -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)): “The Disowned” (1828), Chapter xxxiii
Bobby: Why can’t your nose be 12 inches long?
Billy: Because then it would be a foot!
Overheard: I would like to thank my Arms, for always being by my side . . . my Legs, for always supporting me, and my Fingers, because I can always count on you . . . without the hard work and contributions of each and all of you, I would not be where I am today, patiently standing here in the line at the supermarket checkout . . .
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We are MFOL! . . . the magic doesn’t happen here . . . the magic happens in your life . . .
Becca: What has one foot on each end and a foot in the middle?
Becky: A yardstick.
Ahead: The thing on top of your neck.
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Joseph: Why is your nose in the middle of your face?
Joe: Because it is the ‘scenter.’
Hair is made of the same substance as fingernails, but you cannot make that fun screeching sound that drives everyone bonkers by running your hair over a chalkboard; only your fingernails can do that.
At any given time, your brain can generate up to 25 watts of power - enough energy to make a light bulb come on. You are indeed more powerful than you might have known!
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“The nose is that part of the body that shines, snubs, snoops, and sneezes.” -Author Unknown
“Fingerprints serve another useful function besides helping law enforcement officers catch criminals: the tiny ridges provide traction for the fingers to grasp objects. Fingers are among the many ‘tools’ integrated into our bodies, making humans the ultimate Swiss Army knives of the animal kingdom.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
Your Nose Is Running
“Your nose is running,” Mother said.
I answered, “Wow! That’s really neat!”
“Why’s that?” she asked. I said, “Because
I never knew my nose had feet.”
By Jeff Moss (Jeffrey Arnold ‘Jeff’ Moss (1942 - 1998)): “The Other Side of the Door: Poems” (1991)
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If the human brain were a computer, it would perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. One of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, Blue Gene, can manage only 0.002 percent of that amount.
Sharon: How do you keep your feet from falling asleep?
Sherry: Wear loud socks.
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Veronica: What has a head but no brain?
Vera: A cabbage.
The human body has more than 600 muscles, which make up 40 percent of the body’s weight. Our muscles are actually much more powerful than they may seem to be. Human strength is usually limited to prevent our tendons and muscles from tearing themselves apart; however, this limitation can be overcome in an adrenaline rush, during which there are recorded instances of people lifting heavy boulders and even automobiles off people and animals that have been trapped under them.
Brain: I’m tired of doing all the work around here!
Muscles: What are you talking about?
A typical adult human is made up of more than 37,200,000,000,000 (37.2 trillion) living cells made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms. For perspective, the Milky Way Galaxy has a mere 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) stars. Every year, about 98 percent of the atoms in human bodies are replaced by new ones. Now you finally know what is meant by the phrase ‘a whole new you.’
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Riddle: What has fingers and thumbs but no hands?
Solution: A glove.
Human blood has roughly the same concentration of salt that seawater has.
Sit down and lift your right foot off the floor, and make clockwise circles. While doing this, draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand. Your foot will automatically change direction, and there is nothing you can do to stop it from doing so. Someone - and by someone we mean you - just kidding! - should investigate this phenomena to find out if it is in any way related to the rise in incidents of people hitting their accelerator pedals when they mean to hit their brake pedals, while steering a moving vehicle.
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Riddle: What can clap without using hands?
Solution: Thunder.
“A sharp nose indicates curiosity, and a flat nose indicates . . . too much curiosity!” -Author Unknown
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The bump at the front of the throat is called the Adam’s Apple, which is said to be from the forbidden fruit getting stuck in Adam’s throat as he ate it in the Garden of Eden.
Lionel: What has four legs and one arm?
Lynette: A happy guard dog!
The human body is divided into three parts: the Brainium, the Borax, and the Abominable Cavity. The Brainium contains the Brain. The Borax contains the Lungs, the Heart, the Liver, and the Living Things. The Abominable Cavity contains the Bowels, of which there are five: A, E, I, O, and U.
Riddle: What has a head and mouth, but no eyes, nose, or ears?
Solution: A river.
Fingertip to fingertip, the width of your arm-span stretched out equals the length of your whole body from head to foot, which means you come pretty close to meeting the definition of a ‘square.’
Jenny: What has two legs, two arms, and two heads?
Jennifer: A two-headed monster.
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“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.” -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)): “The Disowned” (1828), Chapter xxxiii
Bobby: Why can’t your nose be 12 inches long?
Billy: Because then it would be a foot!
Overheard: I would like to thank my Arms, for always being by my side . . . my Legs, for always supporting me, and my Fingers, because I can always count on you . . . without the hard work and contributions of each and all of you, I would not be where I am today, patiently standing here in the line at the supermarket checkout . . .
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We are MFOL! . . . the magic doesn’t happen here . . . the magic happens in your life . . .
“The television and I have the world’s best relationship, because we see each other every day and I am pretty sure it loves me as much as I love it.” -Author Unknown
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Jared: How have you been?
Vera: Well, I’ve been through a tornado in the middle of an earthquake, followed by an alien invasion. I barely survived it all.
Jared: Wow, where were you?
Vera: I was at home . . . I probably should watch less television!
“Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, ‘Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.’ We saw all kinds of things.” -Clyde Edgerton
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“You watch television, and what does it do for you? Does it wash and dry your laundry? Does it put money in your bank account? Does it help you succeed in school or at job interviews? Does it give you the physique of Charles Atlas or the gracefulness of Ginger Rogers? Does it paint your house and mow your grass and trim your hedges? Does it help you meet amazing people? No - television does not contribute anything worthwhile to you, your life, your surroundings, or your world . . . and television may even be preventing you from living the life of your dreams . . . so throw the television out with the other household garbage, and spend your time with people, animals, and plants - or in making wacky inventions, exploring mysterious caves and mountaintops, and rehearsing jokes to tell to crowds of strangers!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“My father hated radio and couldn’t wait for television to be invented so he could hate that, too.” -Peter de Vries (1910 - 1993)
A farmer’s son invented television when he was just 14 years old. While plowing potatoes, Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906 - 1971) observed that the rows of a farm field had noticeable light patterns. Based on this observation, by 21 years of age, he had built the first working television that was entirely electrical and without any electro-mechanical parts, followed by an early video camera invention, which he used in combination to transmit his own entertainment shows between the rooms of his workshop. He held more than 300 patents in his lifetime, mostly in the field of television, but he also innovated concepts in the field of nuclear fusion.
“If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.” -Johnny Carson (John William ‘Johnny’ Carson (1925 - 2005))
“The best thing on television the other night was a meadowlark on my neighbor’s antenna.” -William D. Tammeus: as quoted in the Kansas City “Star” newspaper: as quoted in “The Reader’s Digest” (1981) magazine
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“Have you ever noticed that TV families never watch TV?” -Henny Youngman (Henry ‘Henny’ Youngman (1906 - 1998))
In 1965, BBC TV featured an interview with a professor who had just invented a device called ‘smellovision.’ This miraculous technology allowed viewers to experience directly in their own home aromas produced in the television studio. The professor offered a demonstration by cutting some onions and brewing coffee. A number of viewers called in to confirm that they distinctly experienced these scents as if they were there in the studio with him. Since no aromas were actually being transmitted, whatever these viewers thought they smelled coming out of their TV sets must be chalked up to the power of suggestion.
“People only know what they see on TV.” -Carmello Anthony
“There’s a new television series in development. When it is broadcast, people will be able to watch ‘famous celebrities’ and ‘influencers’ on their televisions, and those people will be . . . sitting on a couch watching television. So, it will be a television show about people watching television.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“I don’t watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.” -Chino Moreno
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“When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about close relationships.” -Andy Warhol
Emma: What was the television watcher doing at the beach?
Lee: Channel surfing.
“After 20 years of searching, you are forced to admit that there just isn’t anything good on TV.” -Author Unknown: “The Onion,” ‘Horoscope’
“Television is the single greatest threat to communications and connections within a family. You may as well be fifty miles away from the person sitting next to you if you’re both watching television.” -Author Unknown
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“The first time I got a universal remote control, I thought to myself, ‘This changes everything.’” -Author Unknown
“The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you’re doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.” -Jerry Seinfeld (Jerome Allen ‘Jerry’ Seinfeld (born 1954)) at: http://jerryseinfeld.com/
“I may have made a lot of bad decisions in life, but at least I don’t watch daytime television.” -Andy Borowitz
“Imagine what it would be like if TV were actually good. It would be the end of everything we know.” -Marvin Minsky
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“Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.” -Allen Ginsberg (Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997))
“As long as there’s a jingle in your head, TV isn’t free.” -Jason Love
“The one function that TV news performs very well is that, when there is no news, we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.” -David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
“When a child is watching television, he or she is not involved in play, not socializing with other individuals, and most importantly, not receiving feedback as to the actions or consequences of his or her behavior.” -David Perlmutter
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“Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.” -Richard M. Nixon (Richard Milhous Nixon (1913 - 1994))
“Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.” -C. P. Scott (Charles Prestwich Scott (1846 - 1932))
The English word television is derived from the Greek word ‘tele’ meaning ‘far’ or ‘at a distance’ and the Latin word ‘visio’ meaning ‘sight.’
“The word ‘television’ is a poor choice, not merely because ‘tele’ is Greek and ‘vision’ is Latin but also because it is a simple synonym of telescopy. One could have found a more characteristic Greek expression such as ‘teleopsy’ and derivatives from this word.” -André Blondel (1937)
“There was a show on television the other day that was so old . . . the cowboys were riding dinosaurs.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s a good thing television shows are so awful; otherwise, some of us would squander our entire lives watching television.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.” -Laurence J. Peter (Laurence Johnston Peter (1919 - 1990)): as quoted in Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull: “The Peter Principle” (1969), page 324
“I haven’t had a TV in 10 years, and I really don’t miss it. ’Cause it’s always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.” -Chuck Palahniuk (Charles Michael ‘Chuck’ Palahniuk (born 1962)): as quoted in the “San Francisco Bay Guardian” (30 October 2002), newspaper
World Television Day is observed on 21 November of each year.
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Jared: How have you been?
Vera: Well, I’ve been through a tornado in the middle of an earthquake, followed by an alien invasion. I barely survived it all.
Jared: Wow, where were you?
Vera: I was at home . . . I probably should watch less television!
“Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, ‘Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.’ We saw all kinds of things.” -Clyde Edgerton
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“You watch television, and what does it do for you? Does it wash and dry your laundry? Does it put money in your bank account? Does it help you succeed in school or at job interviews? Does it give you the physique of Charles Atlas or the gracefulness of Ginger Rogers? Does it paint your house and mow your grass and trim your hedges? Does it help you meet amazing people? No - television does not contribute anything worthwhile to you, your life, your surroundings, or your world . . . and television may even be preventing you from living the life of your dreams . . . so throw the television out with the other household garbage, and spend your time with people, animals, and plants - or in making wacky inventions, exploring mysterious caves and mountaintops, and rehearsing jokes to tell to crowds of strangers!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“My father hated radio and couldn’t wait for television to be invented so he could hate that, too.” -Peter de Vries (1910 - 1993)
A farmer’s son invented television when he was just 14 years old. While plowing potatoes, Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906 - 1971) observed that the rows of a farm field had noticeable light patterns. Based on this observation, by 21 years of age, he had built the first working television that was entirely electrical and without any electro-mechanical parts, followed by an early video camera invention, which he used in combination to transmit his own entertainment shows between the rooms of his workshop. He held more than 300 patents in his lifetime, mostly in the field of television, but he also innovated concepts in the field of nuclear fusion.
“If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.” -Johnny Carson (John William ‘Johnny’ Carson (1925 - 2005))
“The best thing on television the other night was a meadowlark on my neighbor’s antenna.” -William D. Tammeus: as quoted in the Kansas City “Star” newspaper: as quoted in “The Reader’s Digest” (1981) magazine
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“Have you ever noticed that TV families never watch TV?” -Henny Youngman (Henry ‘Henny’ Youngman (1906 - 1998))
In 1965, BBC TV featured an interview with a professor who had just invented a device called ‘smellovision.’ This miraculous technology allowed viewers to experience directly in their own home aromas produced in the television studio. The professor offered a demonstration by cutting some onions and brewing coffee. A number of viewers called in to confirm that they distinctly experienced these scents as if they were there in the studio with him. Since no aromas were actually being transmitted, whatever these viewers thought they smelled coming out of their TV sets must be chalked up to the power of suggestion.
“People only know what they see on TV.” -Carmello Anthony
“There’s a new television series in development. When it is broadcast, people will be able to watch ‘famous celebrities’ and ‘influencers’ on their televisions, and those people will be . . . sitting on a couch watching television. So, it will be a television show about people watching television.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“I don’t watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.” -Chino Moreno
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“When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about close relationships.” -Andy Warhol
Emma: What was the television watcher doing at the beach?
Lee: Channel surfing.
“After 20 years of searching, you are forced to admit that there just isn’t anything good on TV.” -Author Unknown: “The Onion,” ‘Horoscope’
“Television is the single greatest threat to communications and connections within a family. You may as well be fifty miles away from the person sitting next to you if you’re both watching television.” -Author Unknown
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“The first time I got a universal remote control, I thought to myself, ‘This changes everything.’” -Author Unknown
“The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you’re doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.” -Jerry Seinfeld (Jerome Allen ‘Jerry’ Seinfeld (born 1954)) at: http://jerryseinfeld.com/
“I may have made a lot of bad decisions in life, but at least I don’t watch daytime television.” -Andy Borowitz
“Imagine what it would be like if TV were actually good. It would be the end of everything we know.” -Marvin Minsky
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“Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.” -Allen Ginsberg (Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997))
“As long as there’s a jingle in your head, TV isn’t free.” -Jason Love
“The one function that TV news performs very well is that, when there is no news, we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.” -David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
“When a child is watching television, he or she is not involved in play, not socializing with other individuals, and most importantly, not receiving feedback as to the actions or consequences of his or her behavior.” -David Perlmutter
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“Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.” -Richard M. Nixon (Richard Milhous Nixon (1913 - 1994))
“Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.” -C. P. Scott (Charles Prestwich Scott (1846 - 1932))
The English word television is derived from the Greek word ‘tele’ meaning ‘far’ or ‘at a distance’ and the Latin word ‘visio’ meaning ‘sight.’
“The word ‘television’ is a poor choice, not merely because ‘tele’ is Greek and ‘vision’ is Latin but also because it is a simple synonym of telescopy. One could have found a more characteristic Greek expression such as ‘teleopsy’ and derivatives from this word.” -André Blondel (1937)
“There was a show on television the other day that was so old . . . the cowboys were riding dinosaurs.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s a good thing television shows are so awful; otherwise, some of us would squander our entire lives watching television.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.” -Laurence J. Peter (Laurence Johnston Peter (1919 - 1990)): as quoted in Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull: “The Peter Principle” (1969), page 324
“I haven’t had a TV in 10 years, and I really don’t miss it. ’Cause it’s always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.” -Chuck Palahniuk (Charles Michael ‘Chuck’ Palahniuk (born 1962)): as quoted in the “San Francisco Bay Guardian” (30 October 2002), newspaper
World Television Day is observed on 21 November of each year.
‘Laugh tracks’ are also known as ‘canned laughter.’ Many of the laugh tracks now used in television programs, especially sitcoms and talk shows, were recorded in the 1950’s, when people still knew how to laugh - and had something to laugh about.
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“Without television, I surely could have mastered several classical languages or learned to play the violin, right?” -Kim Brooks
Young Lady From Trent
There was a young lady from Trent
Whose TV antenna got bent -
The neighbors went crazy;
Their screens all got hazy,
For instead of receiving, she sent!
By John Etheridge
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“If you read a lot of books you are considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well-viewed.” -Lily Tomlin (pseudonym of Mary Jean Tomlin (born 1939))
“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dwight David ‘Ike’ Eisenhower (1890 - 1968))
“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.” -Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980): “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (1960)
“The average American family has no time for television; people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “New York Times” (1939) newspaper
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“I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.” -Orson Welles (1915 - 1985): as quoted in the “New York Herald Tribune” (12 October 1956), newspaper
“Television is the triumph of machine over people.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956))
“TV - a clever contraction derived from the words ‘Terrible Vaudeville’ . . . we call it a medium because nothing’s well done.” -Goodman Ace (born Goodman Aiskowitz (1899 - 1982)): letter to Groucho Marx: published in “The Groucho Letters”
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“I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.” -Jimmy Smits
“I have watched television for so many years that I am now an expert television watcher.” -Author Unknown
“We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.” -Robert M. Hutchins
“My husband wanted one of those new big-screen TV’s for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.” -Wendy Liebman (born 1961)
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What is your favorite television show?
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.” -Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright (1867 - 1959))
An estimated one in every four Americans has appeared on television, though most are not shown in close-up facial images. You might be walking down the street, standing in a line, sitting down at a sports or other entertainment event, eating lunch at a sidewalk cafe, or spending a leisurely day at a park. You won’t necessarily know that a camera is trained on you or scanning the area you are in, and in most cases, they don’t need your permission legally to do so. Most likely the video of you will be put into storage as ‘stock footage’ at a television studio, to be used at a later time to illustrate a news story. For example, a news program might do a segment on obesity. Someone will be sent to search through the stock footage until something is found that shows a sidewalk full of people walking. They will then edit the video in order to emphasize the obviously overweight people, and show it while a news commentator reads aloud some health statistics. This is just another good reason to always try to be at your best when you are out in public.
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Fred: Hey, look, Helen, you’re on TV.
Helen: Fred, that’s ridiculous. I’m standing right over here - how could I possibly be on TV?
“I don’t watch television. I know better than that.” -Tom Baker
“I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked, ‘brightness,’ but it don’t work, does it?” -Gallagher (born 1946 as Leo Anthony Gallagher)
What kinds of things on television and in movies make you laugh?
“The human race is faced with a cruel choice: get a job or watch daytime television.” -Author Unknown
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“The story you have just heard is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” -Author Unknown: “Dragnet” (1949 - 1957)
“People watch television to see people living the lives they could have if they did not squander their lives watching television.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Time has convinced me of one thing: television is for appearing on, not for looking at.” -Noël Coward (Noël Pierce Coward (1899 - 1973))
“Television is about watching a life instead of having one.” -Beth Mazur
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“Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.” David Frost (David Paradine Frost (1939 - 2013)): as quoted in Janet Wasko: “A Companion to Television” (2005), page 9
TV announcer: “Our regularly scheduled program will not be seen tonight because we’ve discovered that not broadcasting anything did better in the ratings than the program itself!”
“Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love, and got married. The ceremony wasn’t much, but the ‘reception’ was good.” -Author Unknown
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“Not more than ten percent of the population will take up television permanently.” -Raymond Postgate (1935)
“Television won’t last because people will get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” -Darryl F. Zanuck (Darryl Francis Zanuck (1902 - 1979)) (1946)
“Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.” -John Logie Baird
“I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book.” -Groucho Marx (Julius Henry ‘Groucho’ Marx (1890 - 1977)): as quoted in Leslie Halliwell: “Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion” (1984)
“All television is educational television. The question is: What is it teaching?” -Nicholas Johnson (born 1934)
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“You open it with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You are moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.” -Rod Serling (Rodman Edward Serling (1924 - 1975)): one of the intros to the “Twilight Zone” show
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“Without television, I surely could have mastered several classical languages or learned to play the violin, right?” -Kim Brooks
Young Lady From Trent
There was a young lady from Trent
Whose TV antenna got bent -
The neighbors went crazy;
Their screens all got hazy,
For instead of receiving, she sent!
By John Etheridge
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“If you read a lot of books you are considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well-viewed.” -Lily Tomlin (pseudonym of Mary Jean Tomlin (born 1939))
“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dwight David ‘Ike’ Eisenhower (1890 - 1968))
“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.” -Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980): “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (1960)
“The average American family has no time for television; people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “New York Times” (1939) newspaper
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“I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.” -Orson Welles (1915 - 1985): as quoted in the “New York Herald Tribune” (12 October 1956), newspaper
“Television is the triumph of machine over people.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956))
“TV - a clever contraction derived from the words ‘Terrible Vaudeville’ . . . we call it a medium because nothing’s well done.” -Goodman Ace (born Goodman Aiskowitz (1899 - 1982)): letter to Groucho Marx: published in “The Groucho Letters”
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“I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.” -Jimmy Smits
“I have watched television for so many years that I am now an expert television watcher.” -Author Unknown
“We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.” -Robert M. Hutchins
“My husband wanted one of those new big-screen TV’s for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.” -Wendy Liebman (born 1961)
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What is your favorite television show?
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.” -Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright (1867 - 1959))
An estimated one in every four Americans has appeared on television, though most are not shown in close-up facial images. You might be walking down the street, standing in a line, sitting down at a sports or other entertainment event, eating lunch at a sidewalk cafe, or spending a leisurely day at a park. You won’t necessarily know that a camera is trained on you or scanning the area you are in, and in most cases, they don’t need your permission legally to do so. Most likely the video of you will be put into storage as ‘stock footage’ at a television studio, to be used at a later time to illustrate a news story. For example, a news program might do a segment on obesity. Someone will be sent to search through the stock footage until something is found that shows a sidewalk full of people walking. They will then edit the video in order to emphasize the obviously overweight people, and show it while a news commentator reads aloud some health statistics. This is just another good reason to always try to be at your best when you are out in public.
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Fred: Hey, look, Helen, you’re on TV.
Helen: Fred, that’s ridiculous. I’m standing right over here - how could I possibly be on TV?
“I don’t watch television. I know better than that.” -Tom Baker
“I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked, ‘brightness,’ but it don’t work, does it?” -Gallagher (born 1946 as Leo Anthony Gallagher)
What kinds of things on television and in movies make you laugh?
“The human race is faced with a cruel choice: get a job or watch daytime television.” -Author Unknown
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“The story you have just heard is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” -Author Unknown: “Dragnet” (1949 - 1957)
“People watch television to see people living the lives they could have if they did not squander their lives watching television.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Time has convinced me of one thing: television is for appearing on, not for looking at.” -Noël Coward (Noël Pierce Coward (1899 - 1973))
“Television is about watching a life instead of having one.” -Beth Mazur
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“Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.” David Frost (David Paradine Frost (1939 - 2013)): as quoted in Janet Wasko: “A Companion to Television” (2005), page 9
TV announcer: “Our regularly scheduled program will not be seen tonight because we’ve discovered that not broadcasting anything did better in the ratings than the program itself!”
“Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love, and got married. The ceremony wasn’t much, but the ‘reception’ was good.” -Author Unknown
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“Not more than ten percent of the population will take up television permanently.” -Raymond Postgate (1935)
“Television won’t last because people will get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” -Darryl F. Zanuck (Darryl Francis Zanuck (1902 - 1979)) (1946)
“Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.” -John Logie Baird
“I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book.” -Groucho Marx (Julius Henry ‘Groucho’ Marx (1890 - 1977)): as quoted in Leslie Halliwell: “Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion” (1984)
“All television is educational television. The question is: What is it teaching?” -Nicholas Johnson (born 1934)
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“You open it with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You are moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.” -Rod Serling (Rodman Edward Serling (1924 - 1975)): one of the intros to the “Twilight Zone” show
“Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.” -Kurt Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut, Junior (1922 - 2007)): “Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday” (1973), novel; author website http://www.Vonnegut.com/
“Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.” -Terry Wogan (born 1938): as quoted in the “Observer” (December 1984) of London
“Television programs: The junk that fills the time between commercials.” -Author Unknown
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“There is a lot of hype going on about high-definition television. But is it really worth it to pay more money to see the same junk in sharper detail?” -Thomas Sowell (born 1930)
“Whenever I lose my TV controller, I always find it in a remote location.” -Author Unknown
“I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.” -Edward Hirsch
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“Television is a device that permits people who haven’t anything to do to watch people who can’t do anything.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956))
“It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.” -T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965)): as quoted in the “New York Post” (22 September 1963) newspaper
“While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time or dreaming.” -Lee de Forest (1873 - 1961) (1926)
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“If you are annoying to enough people, eventually they give you your own television program. I’m pretty certain that’s how it works.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Watching T.V. doesn’t have much of a payoff.” -Maxine Hong Kingston: “To Be the Poet” (2002), page 57
“I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.” -Alice Krige
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My TV’s Under The Weather
My TV came down with a chill.
As soon as I saw it was ill
I wrapped up its channels
In warm Winter flannels
And gave its antenna a pill.
By Willard R. Espy (Willard Richardson Espy (1910 - 1999))
“I used to think that television could be potentially the most powerful medium for the dissemination of knowledge that the world has ever known, it could be a very rich and rewarding thing if handled properly and that the problem was in the execution. I’ve now come, after ten years in the business, five years of which was as a television critic, to taking the very extreme view point. I think television itself is bad. The idea of television, the act of watching television, kills the imagination. It’s not like radio, with radio you had to listen, had to make things, you had to build things in your mind. Movies do that. Television is something else again. Television lays it all out there in a very prescribed way and the bare minimum of imagination on the part of the viewer is needed and I really fear for all of us.” -Harlan Ellison: interview (1979), as quoted in Robert W. Bly: “The Online Copywriter’s Handbook” (2002), page 19
Question: What is a British cow’s favorite sci-fi television program?
Answer: Dr. Moo.
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“Television is a new medium. It’s called a medium because nothing is well-done.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956)): “The Big Show” (17 December 1950) radio program
“Reality shows are fake and are just as far from reality as people can get without being permanently institutionalized.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
The Society for the Eradication of Television (SET) no longer exists, and Couch Potatoes likewise is defunct, so some of us must organize to eradicate the beastly television hobgoblin monster thing before it turns us all into gelatinous masses with non-functioning legs and permanently bloodshot eyes. Who will go forth to slay the dragon? Will it be you? How about you? You, over there, can you do it? Hey, can somebody get us some fresh batteries for the remote?
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“The best show on TV can usually be found on the OFF channel.” -Author Unknown
“Television has proven that people will look at anything rather than each other.” -Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline Friedman ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918 - 2002))
“I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.” -Jack Paar (Jack Harold Paar (1918 - 2004)): as quoted in “TV Guide”
“Cable TV is now evenly divided between shows about preparing food and shows about losing weight.” -Andy Borowitz
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“Television: An electrical device which, when broken, stimulates conversation.” -Author Unknown
“The only thing television ever did for me was to give me a stiff neck.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.” -Harriet Van Horne (1920 - 1998)
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“If television shows continue the way they’re going, the public will soon be demanding longer commercials.” -Author Unknown
“I’m not necessarily anti-television, I’m just in favor of so many things that are not television. So, I leave the television watching to others.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.” -Andrew Ross
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“If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.” -Jay Chiat
“The best place in a house for a television? Behind the bags and boxes in a closet.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“There is an educational channel. It’s called ‘off.’” -Lily Henderson: remark made at 11 years of age
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“Late night T.V. is very educational. It teaches you that you should have gone to bed earlier.” -James Dent
What is your favorite television commercial?
Just remember, children and adults, watching television is bad for your intellect, causes muscles to atrophy, makes imaginations shrivel, and is a leading cause of suffering in relationships . . . so instead hang out on MFOL! . . . or, even better, go outside and play . . . with your human friends, your family, your animal friends, and your imagination.
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“I learned how to speak English watching television.” -Azita Ghanizada (born about 1978)
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
-Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990): “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (1964)
“When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.” -Barbara Ehrenreich
“I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.” -Alexandra Paul
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We are MFOL! . . . for people who know there is more to life than what is shown on television screens . . . as for example, what’s coming up next . . .
“Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.” -Terry Wogan (born 1938): as quoted in the “Observer” (December 1984) of London
“Television programs: The junk that fills the time between commercials.” -Author Unknown
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“There is a lot of hype going on about high-definition television. But is it really worth it to pay more money to see the same junk in sharper detail?” -Thomas Sowell (born 1930)
“Whenever I lose my TV controller, I always find it in a remote location.” -Author Unknown
“I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.” -Edward Hirsch
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“Television is a device that permits people who haven’t anything to do to watch people who can’t do anything.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956))
“It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.” -T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965)): as quoted in the “New York Post” (22 September 1963) newspaper
“While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time or dreaming.” -Lee de Forest (1873 - 1961) (1926)
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“If you are annoying to enough people, eventually they give you your own television program. I’m pretty certain that’s how it works.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Watching T.V. doesn’t have much of a payoff.” -Maxine Hong Kingston: “To Be the Poet” (2002), page 57
“I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.” -Alice Krige
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My TV’s Under The Weather
My TV came down with a chill.
As soon as I saw it was ill
I wrapped up its channels
In warm Winter flannels
And gave its antenna a pill.
By Willard R. Espy (Willard Richardson Espy (1910 - 1999))
“I used to think that television could be potentially the most powerful medium for the dissemination of knowledge that the world has ever known, it could be a very rich and rewarding thing if handled properly and that the problem was in the execution. I’ve now come, after ten years in the business, five years of which was as a television critic, to taking the very extreme view point. I think television itself is bad. The idea of television, the act of watching television, kills the imagination. It’s not like radio, with radio you had to listen, had to make things, you had to build things in your mind. Movies do that. Television is something else again. Television lays it all out there in a very prescribed way and the bare minimum of imagination on the part of the viewer is needed and I really fear for all of us.” -Harlan Ellison: interview (1979), as quoted in Robert W. Bly: “The Online Copywriter’s Handbook” (2002), page 19
Question: What is a British cow’s favorite sci-fi television program?
Answer: Dr. Moo.
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“Television is a new medium. It’s called a medium because nothing is well-done.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956)): “The Big Show” (17 December 1950) radio program
“Reality shows are fake and are just as far from reality as people can get without being permanently institutionalized.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
The Society for the Eradication of Television (SET) no longer exists, and Couch Potatoes likewise is defunct, so some of us must organize to eradicate the beastly television hobgoblin monster thing before it turns us all into gelatinous masses with non-functioning legs and permanently bloodshot eyes. Who will go forth to slay the dragon? Will it be you? How about you? You, over there, can you do it? Hey, can somebody get us some fresh batteries for the remote?
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“The best show on TV can usually be found on the OFF channel.” -Author Unknown
“Television has proven that people will look at anything rather than each other.” -Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline Friedman ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918 - 2002))
“I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.” -Jack Paar (Jack Harold Paar (1918 - 2004)): as quoted in “TV Guide”
“Cable TV is now evenly divided between shows about preparing food and shows about losing weight.” -Andy Borowitz
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“Television: An electrical device which, when broken, stimulates conversation.” -Author Unknown
“The only thing television ever did for me was to give me a stiff neck.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.” -Harriet Van Horne (1920 - 1998)
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“If television shows continue the way they’re going, the public will soon be demanding longer commercials.” -Author Unknown
“I’m not necessarily anti-television, I’m just in favor of so many things that are not television. So, I leave the television watching to others.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.” -Andrew Ross
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“If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.” -Jay Chiat
“The best place in a house for a television? Behind the bags and boxes in a closet.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“There is an educational channel. It’s called ‘off.’” -Lily Henderson: remark made at 11 years of age
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“Late night T.V. is very educational. It teaches you that you should have gone to bed earlier.” -James Dent
What is your favorite television commercial?
Just remember, children and adults, watching television is bad for your intellect, causes muscles to atrophy, makes imaginations shrivel, and is a leading cause of suffering in relationships . . . so instead hang out on MFOL! . . . or, even better, go outside and play . . . with your human friends, your family, your animal friends, and your imagination.
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“I learned how to speak English watching television.” -Azita Ghanizada (born about 1978)
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
-Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990): “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (1964)
“When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.” -Barbara Ehrenreich
“I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.” -Alexandra Paul
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We are MFOL! . . . for people who know there is more to life than what is shown on television screens . . . as for example, what’s coming up next . . .
“I was made to work; if you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.” -Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
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“Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” [translation to English]
“Luiheid mag aantrekkelijk schijnen, werken geeft bevrediging.” [original German]
-Anne Frank (Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (1929 - 1945)): “The Diary of a Young Girl” (1952), ‘6 July 1944’
“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.” -Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
“A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.” -Dorothy L. Sayers (Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893 - 1957))
“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.” -Charles Bukowski: “Factotum” (1975)
“The dog that trots about finds a bone.” -Author Unknown
Overheard: My dog is so lazy that he hires other dogs to chase cats for him.
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Dwight: Why did the lazy woman have a great big dog?
Edwin: So she would not have to bend down far to pet it.
“The lazy are always wanting to do something.” -Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747): “Reflections and Maxims” (1746)
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“When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle, or children playing in the park?” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/
“He is idle that might be better employed.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
“Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.” -Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953): as quoted in “The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life” (1950)
“Doing nothing is very hard to do - you never know when you’re finished.” -Leslie Nielsen
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
“Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other’s work.” -Ann Rule
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Every Day Will Be Sunday
A young fellow who did not much enjoy working, did do some work, figuring out that eventually every day will be Sunday. Every year has 365 days. If you sleep eight hours a day, it equals 122 days. This leaves 243 days. If you rest eight hours a day it equals another 122 days. This leaves 121 days. There are 52 Sundays, thus leaving 69 days. If you have a half-day on Saturday, this equals 26 days, and leaves 43 days. If you have 1 and 1/2 hours for lunch every workday, this equals 28 days, leaving 15 days. Two weeks’ vacation equals 14 days. This leaves only one day. And on Labor Day, nobody works.
By Author Unknown
“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.” -Jimmy Lyons
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826): letter (5 May 1787) to Martha Jefferson
“Resting is rusting.” -Helen Hayes
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“A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
“Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.” -John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
“Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economize his time.” -Matthew Hale (1609 - 1676): as quoted in Tryon Edwards “A Dictionary of Thoughts” (1908), page 242
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“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” -Don Herold (1889 - 1966): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” -Thomas Sowell (born 1930)
Dede: What kind of shoes do lazy people wear?
Bebe: Loafers.
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“There is no excellence without labor.” -Author Unknown
“Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man’s time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
“The forty hour week has no charm for me. I’m looking for the forty hour day!” -Nicholas Murray Butler (1862 - 1947)
“If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887): “Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects” (1852)
“We will be friends forever because I am too lazy to find new ones.” -Author Unknown
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“Shun idleness. It is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
“Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.” -attributed to Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): letter (16 November 1857) to Harrison Gray Otis Blake
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“The hardest work in life is resisting laziness.” -Author Unknown
“Nothing is impossible to industry.” -Periander of Corinth (before 635 B.C.E. - 585 B.C.E.)
“Don’t just stay there like a bump on a log!” -Author Unknown
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“Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” [translation to English]
“Luiheid mag aantrekkelijk schijnen, werken geeft bevrediging.” [original German]
-Anne Frank (Annelies Marie ‘Anne’ Frank (1929 - 1945)): “The Diary of a Young Girl” (1952), ‘6 July 1944’
“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.” -Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
“A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.” -Dorothy L. Sayers (Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893 - 1957))
“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.” -Charles Bukowski: “Factotum” (1975)
“The dog that trots about finds a bone.” -Author Unknown
Overheard: My dog is so lazy that he hires other dogs to chase cats for him.
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Dwight: Why did the lazy woman have a great big dog?
Edwin: So she would not have to bend down far to pet it.
“The lazy are always wanting to do something.” -Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715 - 1747): “Reflections and Maxims” (1746)
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“When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle, or children playing in the park?” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/
“He is idle that might be better employed.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)
“Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.” -Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953): as quoted in “The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life” (1950)
“Doing nothing is very hard to do - you never know when you’re finished.” -Leslie Nielsen
“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
“Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other’s work.” -Ann Rule
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Every Day Will Be Sunday
A young fellow who did not much enjoy working, did do some work, figuring out that eventually every day will be Sunday. Every year has 365 days. If you sleep eight hours a day, it equals 122 days. This leaves 243 days. If you rest eight hours a day it equals another 122 days. This leaves 121 days. There are 52 Sundays, thus leaving 69 days. If you have a half-day on Saturday, this equals 26 days, and leaves 43 days. If you have 1 and 1/2 hours for lunch every workday, this equals 28 days, leaving 15 days. Two weeks’ vacation equals 14 days. This leaves only one day. And on Labor Day, nobody works.
By Author Unknown
“Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.” -Jimmy Lyons
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826): letter (5 May 1787) to Martha Jefferson
“Resting is rusting.” -Helen Hayes
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“A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
“Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.” -John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
“Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economize his time.” -Matthew Hale (1609 - 1676): as quoted in Tryon Edwards “A Dictionary of Thoughts” (1908), page 242
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“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” -Don Herold (1889 - 1966): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” -Thomas Sowell (born 1930)
Dede: What kind of shoes do lazy people wear?
Bebe: Loafers.
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“There is no excellence without labor.” -Author Unknown
“Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man’s time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
“The forty hour week has no charm for me. I’m looking for the forty hour day!” -Nicholas Murray Butler (1862 - 1947)
“If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887): “Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects” (1852)
“We will be friends forever because I am too lazy to find new ones.” -Author Unknown
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“Shun idleness. It is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.” -Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778))
“Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.” -attributed to Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))
“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): letter (16 November 1857) to Harrison Gray Otis Blake
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“The hardest work in life is resisting laziness.” -Author Unknown
“Nothing is impossible to industry.” -Periander of Corinth (before 635 B.C.E. - 585 B.C.E.)
“Don’t just stay there like a bump on a log!” -Author Unknown
Up, you sluggard, and get to work . . . or at least do some meaningful activity!
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“You get out of anything in proportion to what you put into it.” -Author Unknown
“The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863): “The Luck of Barry Lyndon” (1844)
“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” -Jules Renard (Pierre-Jules Renard (1864 - 1910))
“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.” [translation to English]
“Difficultas patrocinia præteximus segnitiæ.” [original Latin]
-Quintilian: “De Institutione Oratoria,” I. 12
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Overheard: I am allergic to lazy people.
“Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn’t give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn’t surround myself with people who are lazy.” -Michael Chandler
In Works of Labour or of Skill
I would be busy too:
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle Hands to do.
-Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748): “Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children” (1715), Song 20: ‘Against Idleness and Mischief’
“The idler does not waste time; he merely wastes himself.” -Author Unknown
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If little labor, little are our gains;
Man’s fortunes are according to his pains.
-Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
“Tomorrow is always the sluggard’s working day; today is his holiday.” -Richard Baxter
“Idleness is the holiday of fools.” -Author Unknown: proverb
“The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.” -Nicolas Chamfort (Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741 - 1794))
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“Idleness is the root of mischief.” -Author Unknown
“The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.” -George S. Hilliard
“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” -Sam Ewing (1920 - 2001)
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” -Marthe Troly-Curtin: “Phrynette Married” (1912), page 256
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How can we help sluggards become better people? We can urge them on to becoming workers by letting them experience the consequences of their idleness. According to scripture, “For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘2nd Thessalonians,’ chapter 3, verses 10 through 12
“Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.” -Luc de Clapiers (1715 - 1747)
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“There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “Past and Present” (1843), book 3, chapter 11
“If a loafer is not a nuisance to you, it is a sign that you are somewhat of a loafer yourself.” -Edgar W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe (1853 - 1937))
“It is better to wear out than to rust out.” -Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718): as quoted in G. Horne: “The Duty of Contending for the Faith” (1786), page 21
“Human beings find less rest in idleness than in a change of occupation. If you scoff at the idea, just try it. Instead of collapsing in an easy chair, try tackling your hobby. Or write that neglected letter, or help Johnny to build that radio receiver set. Activity - especially creative activity - is far better recreation than loafing.” -Gardner Hunting (Henry Gardner Hunting (1872 - 1958)): as quoted in “Weekly Unity” magazine
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’Tis the voice of the sluggard, I heard him complain:
“You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again”;
As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,
Turns his sides, and his shoulders and his heavy head.
-Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748): “The Sluggard” as quoted in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations” (1922), pages 384 and 385
“If you sleep till Noon, you have no right to complain that the Days are short.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 2788
“Lazy people are good for just one thing, and that is, making mediocre people look like they have accomplished something in life.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“If you rest, you rust.” [translation to English]
“Wer rastet, der rostet.” [original German]
-Author Unknown: German proverb
“Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.” -E. V. Lucas (Edward Verrall Lucas (1868 - 1938)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“Idleness is the great corrupter of youth, and the bane and dishonor of middle age. He who, in the prime of life, finds time to hang heavy on his hands, may with much reason suspect that he has not consulted the duties which the consideration of his age imposed upon him; assuredly he has not consulted his happiness.” -Hugh Blair (1718 - 1800): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 345
“If you’re coasting, you’re going downhill.” -L. R. Pierson
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“You get out of anything in proportion to what you put into it.” -Author Unknown
“The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.” -William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863): “The Luck of Barry Lyndon” (1844)
“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.” -Jules Renard (Pierre-Jules Renard (1864 - 1910))
“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.” [translation to English]
“Difficultas patrocinia præteximus segnitiæ.” [original Latin]
-Quintilian: “De Institutione Oratoria,” I. 12
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Overheard: I am allergic to lazy people.
“Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn’t give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn’t surround myself with people who are lazy.” -Michael Chandler
In Works of Labour or of Skill
I would be busy too:
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle Hands to do.
-Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748): “Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children” (1715), Song 20: ‘Against Idleness and Mischief’
“The idler does not waste time; he merely wastes himself.” -Author Unknown
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If little labor, little are our gains;
Man’s fortunes are according to his pains.
-Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
“Tomorrow is always the sluggard’s working day; today is his holiday.” -Richard Baxter
“Idleness is the holiday of fools.” -Author Unknown: proverb
“The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.” -Nicolas Chamfort (Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741 - 1794))
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“Idleness is the root of mischief.” -Author Unknown
“The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.” -George S. Hilliard
“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” -Sam Ewing (1920 - 2001)
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” -Marthe Troly-Curtin: “Phrynette Married” (1912), page 256
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How can we help sluggards become better people? We can urge them on to becoming workers by letting them experience the consequences of their idleness. According to scripture, “For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘2nd Thessalonians,’ chapter 3, verses 10 through 12
“Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.” -Luc de Clapiers (1715 - 1747)
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“There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “Past and Present” (1843), book 3, chapter 11
“If a loafer is not a nuisance to you, it is a sign that you are somewhat of a loafer yourself.” -Edgar W. Howe (Edgar Watson ‘Ed’ Howe, also known as E. W. Howe (1853 - 1937))
“It is better to wear out than to rust out.” -Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718): as quoted in G. Horne: “The Duty of Contending for the Faith” (1786), page 21
“Human beings find less rest in idleness than in a change of occupation. If you scoff at the idea, just try it. Instead of collapsing in an easy chair, try tackling your hobby. Or write that neglected letter, or help Johnny to build that radio receiver set. Activity - especially creative activity - is far better recreation than loafing.” -Gardner Hunting (Henry Gardner Hunting (1872 - 1958)): as quoted in “Weekly Unity” magazine
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’Tis the voice of the sluggard, I heard him complain:
“You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again”;
As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,
Turns his sides, and his shoulders and his heavy head.
-Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748): “The Sluggard” as quoted in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations” (1922), pages 384 and 385
“If you sleep till Noon, you have no right to complain that the Days are short.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 2788
“Lazy people are good for just one thing, and that is, making mediocre people look like they have accomplished something in life.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“If you rest, you rust.” [translation to English]
“Wer rastet, der rostet.” [original German]
-Author Unknown: German proverb
“Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.” -E. V. Lucas (Edward Verrall Lucas (1868 - 1938)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“Idleness is the great corrupter of youth, and the bane and dishonor of middle age. He who, in the prime of life, finds time to hang heavy on his hands, may with much reason suspect that he has not consulted the duties which the consideration of his age imposed upon him; assuredly he has not consulted his happiness.” -Hugh Blair (1718 - 1800): as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895), page 345
“If you’re coasting, you’re going downhill.” -L. R. Pierson
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): “The Use of Life” (1894), chapter IV: ‘Recreation’
“There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012)): “See You at the Top” (2000)
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What might someone be other than lazy? Tired, fearful, sad, overwhelmed, in physical pain, in emotional pain, traumatized, shy . . . Can you think of anything else?
“The only problem with having nothing to do is you can’t stop and rest.” -Franklin P. Jones (Franklin Pierce Jones (1908 - 1980))
“Sleepiness and laziness in a man are the beginning of his misfortune.” -Samuel Rapaport: “Tales and Maxims from the Midrash” (1907), ‘Genesis Rabbah 17,’ page 69
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Overheard: I am going to do nothing all day today, starting just as soon as I am finished doing the nothing I did all day yesterday . . .
“Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com/
Rules For Lazy People
1. If you cannot reach it easily, you do not need it.
2. Get it done - but just not today.
3. It is always somebody else’s job.
By Author Unknown
“It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don’t care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.” -Robert South (1634 - 1716)
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“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
“The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort to make work as near pleasure as it can be.” -Arthur James Balfour (1848 - 1930)
“The best person to get something done is a busy person.” -Mark Burnett
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“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.” -Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867))
“Idle Fellows are the Devil’s Playfellows.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 3054
“Doing nothing results in having nothing.” -Daniel Burke
“The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much farther.” -Heneage Ogilvie (William Heneage Ogilvie (1887 -1971))
“Merit and fame never crown the lazy.” -Author Unknown
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“A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 20, verse 4
“The only thing worse than having too much to do is having not enough.” -Author Unknown
“If idleness does not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845): attributed in “The Review of Education” (May 1902)
“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.” -Menander of Athens (342 B.C.E. - 291 B.C.E.)
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“Laziness is a luxury that few people can afford.” -Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
“Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep; And you shall have Corn, to sell and to keep.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
“If I won the award for laziness, I would send somebody to pick it up for me.” -Author Unknown
“A man is a worker. If he is not that, he is nothing.” -Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Jósez Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski (1857 - 1924)): “Notes on Life and Letters” (1921), part II, ‘Well Done’
“The real people of genius were resolute workers, not idle dreamers.” -George Henry Lewes (1817 - 1878)
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“Be sure to keep busy, so the devil may always find you occupied.” -Publius (also variously Flavius) Vegetius Renatus (also known simply as Vegetius (about 4th century C.E. - after C.E. 383))
“Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.” -Miguel de Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616))
“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.” -Hosea Ballou (1771 - 1811): “Manuscripts,” ‘Sermons’ as quoted in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations” (1922), pages 384 and 385
Lazy people work harder . . . at being lazy, that is!
“Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.” -Elias Lyman Magoon: as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895)
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“Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790)): “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (1756)
“If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): as quoted in Elbert Hubbard II, compiler: “The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard: Mottoes, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings, and Preachments” (1927)
“Laziness is the seed of all evil.” -Author Unknown: Welsh saying
There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
-Aubrey de Vere: “A Song of Faith, Devout Exercises, and Sonnets”
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“I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.” -Hesiod (about 800 B.C.E. - about 720 B.C.E.)
“A man who does nothing never has time to do anything.” -C. H. Spurgeon (Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892))
“Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.” -C. F. W. Walther (Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther (1811 - 1887)): letter (14 January 1873)
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“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners” (1821 - 1822), ‘On the Pleasure of Painting’
In every rank, or great or small,
’Tis industry supports us all.
-John Gay (1685 - 1732): “Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly,” line 63
“He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live entirely to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.” -John Foster: as quoted in C. N. Douglas (Charles Noel Douglas (1863 - 1920)), compiler: “Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical” (1917)
Smiling uses fewer muscles and takes less effort than frowning, making smiling a great way for lazy people to contribute something useful to the world . . . the results of industriousness follows . . . on MFOL!
“There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012)): “See You at the Top” (2000)
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What might someone be other than lazy? Tired, fearful, sad, overwhelmed, in physical pain, in emotional pain, traumatized, shy . . . Can you think of anything else?
“The only problem with having nothing to do is you can’t stop and rest.” -Franklin P. Jones (Franklin Pierce Jones (1908 - 1980))
“Sleepiness and laziness in a man are the beginning of his misfortune.” -Samuel Rapaport: “Tales and Maxims from the Midrash” (1907), ‘Genesis Rabbah 17,’ page 69
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Overheard: I am going to do nothing all day today, starting just as soon as I am finished doing the nothing I did all day yesterday . . .
“Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com/
Rules For Lazy People
1. If you cannot reach it easily, you do not need it.
2. Get it done - but just not today.
3. It is always somebody else’s job.
By Author Unknown
“It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don’t care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.” -Robert South (1634 - 1716)
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“Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
“The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort to make work as near pleasure as it can be.” -Arthur James Balfour (1848 - 1930)
“The best person to get something done is a busy person.” -Mark Burnett
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“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.” -Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867))
“Idle Fellows are the Devil’s Playfellows.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 3054
“Doing nothing results in having nothing.” -Daniel Burke
“The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much farther.” -Heneage Ogilvie (William Heneage Ogilvie (1887 -1971))
“Merit and fame never crown the lazy.” -Author Unknown
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“A sluggard does not plow in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Proverbs,’ chapter 20, verse 4
“The only thing worse than having too much to do is having not enough.” -Author Unknown
“If idleness does not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.” -Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845): attributed in “The Review of Education” (May 1902)
“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.” -Menander of Athens (342 B.C.E. - 291 B.C.E.)
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“Laziness is a luxury that few people can afford.” -Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
“Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep; And you shall have Corn, to sell and to keep.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
“If I won the award for laziness, I would send somebody to pick it up for me.” -Author Unknown
“A man is a worker. If he is not that, he is nothing.” -Joseph Conrad (born Teodor Jósez Konrad Nalecz-Korzeniowski (1857 - 1924)): “Notes on Life and Letters” (1921), part II, ‘Well Done’
“The real people of genius were resolute workers, not idle dreamers.” -George Henry Lewes (1817 - 1878)
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“Be sure to keep busy, so the devil may always find you occupied.” -Publius (also variously Flavius) Vegetius Renatus (also known simply as Vegetius (about 4th century C.E. - after C.E. 383))
“Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.” -Miguel de Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 - 1616))
“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.” -Hosea Ballou (1771 - 1811): “Manuscripts,” ‘Sermons’ as quoted in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations” (1922), pages 384 and 385
Lazy people work harder . . . at being lazy, that is!
“Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.” -Elias Lyman Magoon: as quoted in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert: “Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers” (1895)
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“Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790)): “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (1756)
“If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): as quoted in Elbert Hubbard II, compiler: “The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard: Mottoes, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings, and Preachments” (1927)
“Laziness is the seed of all evil.” -Author Unknown: Welsh saying
There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
-Aubrey de Vere: “A Song of Faith, Devout Exercises, and Sonnets”
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“I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.” -Hesiod (about 800 B.C.E. - about 720 B.C.E.)
“A man who does nothing never has time to do anything.” -C. H. Spurgeon (Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892))
“Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.” -C. F. W. Walther (Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther (1811 - 1887)): letter (14 January 1873)
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“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners” (1821 - 1822), ‘On the Pleasure of Painting’
In every rank, or great or small,
’Tis industry supports us all.
-John Gay (1685 - 1732): “Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly,” line 63
“He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live entirely to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.” -John Foster: as quoted in C. N. Douglas (Charles Noel Douglas (1863 - 1920)), compiler: “Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical” (1917)
Smiling uses fewer muscles and takes less effort than frowning, making smiling a great way for lazy people to contribute something useful to the world . . . the results of industriousness follows . . . on MFOL!
Ethan: Did you hear about the man who crossed a bale of straw with an octopus?
Ethel: Yes, he got a broom with eight handles!
Dorothy Parker was a writer and a humorist who led a very busy life. One day she was foolish enough to accept two baby alligators as a gift. She brought them home, ran a little water in the bathtub, and put them there until she could decide what to do with them. The next day, the cleaning woman came by while Parker was out. When Parker returned that evening, she found the house uncleaned and this note: “Dear Madam, I am leaving. I cannot work in a house with alligators. I would have told you this before, but I never thought the subject would come up.”
“Twenty-one percent of people do not make their beds in the morning.” -Author Unknown
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Bed-Making Machine
“I’ve been thinking it over, I mean,”
Said a child to her girl-friend Irene,
“It’s a shame and a crime,
After all this long time,
No one’s built a bed-making machine.”
By Author Unknown
“I keep a bowl of plastic fruit on the table in case a couple of mannequins drop in for a visit.” -Author Unknown
“Clutter is not just the stuff on the floor - it’s anything that stands between you and the life you want to be living.” -Peter Walsh
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“Houses are full of things that gather dust.” -Jack Kerouac
Does vacuuming count as aerobic exercise?
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Overheard: A clean house is a happy house!
Dirty Dishes
Thank God for dirty dishes,
They have a tale to tell.
While others may go hungry,
We’ve eaten very well.
With home, health, and happiness;
I shouldn’t want to fuss.
By the stack of evidence,
God’s been very good to us.
By Author Unknown
“The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.” -Marie Kondo
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“I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.” -Joan Rivers (pseudonym of Joan Alexandra Molinsky (1933 - 2014)): as quoted in Michèle Brown and Ann O’Connor, editors: “Woman Talk” (1984), ‘Work’
Why is there a light in the refrigerator and not in the freezer? Why do home refrigerators not have windows in the doors so people can look inside them without opening the doors?
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“My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it.” -Dottie Archibald (Dorothy Bales ‘Dottie’ Archibald (born 1942))
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“Don’t wear headphones while vacuuming . . . I’ve just finished the whole house and realized the vacuum wasn’t even plugged in.” -Author Unknown
Spring Cleaning
I’m really determined and keen
To start giving this house a Spring clean.
I will do it I say,
Yes, I’ll do it today . . .
Well, I’ll do it tomorrow, I mean.
By Author Unknown
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“Cleaning: Moving dirt from one place to another.” -Author Unknown
“Decluttering is infinitely easier when you think of it as deciding what keep, rather than deciding what to throw away.” -Francine Jay
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Attention, men - vacuum cleaners are power tools!
Ethel: Yes, he got a broom with eight handles!
Dorothy Parker was a writer and a humorist who led a very busy life. One day she was foolish enough to accept two baby alligators as a gift. She brought them home, ran a little water in the bathtub, and put them there until she could decide what to do with them. The next day, the cleaning woman came by while Parker was out. When Parker returned that evening, she found the house uncleaned and this note: “Dear Madam, I am leaving. I cannot work in a house with alligators. I would have told you this before, but I never thought the subject would come up.”
“Twenty-one percent of people do not make their beds in the morning.” -Author Unknown
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Bed-Making Machine
“I’ve been thinking it over, I mean,”
Said a child to her girl-friend Irene,
“It’s a shame and a crime,
After all this long time,
No one’s built a bed-making machine.”
By Author Unknown
“I keep a bowl of plastic fruit on the table in case a couple of mannequins drop in for a visit.” -Author Unknown
“Clutter is not just the stuff on the floor - it’s anything that stands between you and the life you want to be living.” -Peter Walsh
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“Houses are full of things that gather dust.” -Jack Kerouac
Does vacuuming count as aerobic exercise?
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Overheard: A clean house is a happy house!
Dirty Dishes
Thank God for dirty dishes,
They have a tale to tell.
While others may go hungry,
We’ve eaten very well.
With home, health, and happiness;
I shouldn’t want to fuss.
By the stack of evidence,
God’s been very good to us.
By Author Unknown
“The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.” -Marie Kondo
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“I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.” -Joan Rivers (pseudonym of Joan Alexandra Molinsky (1933 - 2014)): as quoted in Michèle Brown and Ann O’Connor, editors: “Woman Talk” (1984), ‘Work’
Why is there a light in the refrigerator and not in the freezer? Why do home refrigerators not have windows in the doors so people can look inside them without opening the doors?
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“My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it.” -Dottie Archibald (Dorothy Bales ‘Dottie’ Archibald (born 1942))
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“Don’t wear headphones while vacuuming . . . I’ve just finished the whole house and realized the vacuum wasn’t even plugged in.” -Author Unknown
Spring Cleaning
I’m really determined and keen
To start giving this house a Spring clean.
I will do it I say,
Yes, I’ll do it today . . .
Well, I’ll do it tomorrow, I mean.
By Author Unknown
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“Cleaning: Moving dirt from one place to another.” -Author Unknown
“Decluttering is infinitely easier when you think of it as deciding what keep, rather than deciding what to throw away.” -Francine Jay
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Attention, men - vacuum cleaners are power tools!
It turns out that real men actually can do housework . . .
“The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they’d never clean anything.” -Dave Barry (David McAlister ‘Dave’ Barry (born 1947))
“A new broom sweeps clean, but the old one knows the corners.” -Author Unknown
“Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy.” -Author Unknown
A woman admitted to being a less than fastidious housekeeper. One evening her husband returned home from work, walked into the kitchen, and said, “You know, dear, I can write my name in the dust on the mantel.” The woman turned to him and sweetly replied, “Well, darling, that’s why I married a college graduate.”
Fred: Why do refrigerators hum?
Ginger: Because they do not know the words.
When Young Melissa Sweeps
When young Melissa sweeps a room
I vow she dances with the broom!
She curtsies in a corner brightly
And leads her partner forth politely.
Then up and down in jigs and reels,
With gold dust flying at their heels,
They caper. With a whirl or two
They make the wainscot shine like new;
They waltz beside the hearth, and quick
It brightens, shabby brick by brick.
A gay gavotte across the floor,
A Highland fling from door to door,
And every crack and corner’s clean
Enough to suit a dainty queen.
If ever you are full of gloom,
Just watch Melissa sweep a room!
By Nancy Byrd Turner (1880 - 1971)
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“Housework is like stringing beads with no knot on the end.” -Author Unknown
“The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain clean forever and ever (which they ought in all reason to do, considering how much trouble it is), there would be less occasion to grumble; but no sooner is it done, than it requires to be done again. On the whole, I have come to the resolution not to use more than one dish at each meal.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
“Home Sweet Home - Please Do Not Feed The Dust Bunnies.” -Author Unknown
"Dust bunnies are magical. Santa’s elves make them at the North Pole during the off-season, and they are then delivered to people’s homes by the other little people: fairies, gnomes, pixies, leprechauns, and so forth, just in time for Spring cleaning." -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“A house becomes a home when you can write, ‘I love you’ on the furniture.” -Author Unknown: “Dust If You Must”
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A Request
Please be a dear
And do your dish here
For if you do not
The house will be wrought
With people disgusted
By the mess that’s displayed
And hence are not able
To dine at the table
For lack of clean dishes
Restricts their good wishes.
By Author Unknown
“Cleaning is just putting stuff in less obvious places.” -Author Unknown
“There were times, indeed, when the vigor she put into her work was more of a relief to her feelings than it was an ardor to efface dirt . . .” -Eleanor H. Porter (Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (1868 - 1920)): “Pollyanna” (1912)
“I recently decided to sell my vacuum cleaner - all it was doing was gathering dust.” -Author Unknown
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Amathophobia is a persistent fear of dust. Amathophobia is derived from the Greek words ‘amathos’ meaning ‘sand’ and ‘phobos’ meaning ‘fear.’ What is a fear of dust bunnies called?
“Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.” -Mario Buatta (1935 - 2018)
Ivy: What do you call a pretty woman using a broom?
Ivan: Sweeping beauty.
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“The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they’d never clean anything.” -Dave Barry (David McAlister ‘Dave’ Barry (born 1947))
“A new broom sweeps clean, but the old one knows the corners.” -Author Unknown
“Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy.” -Author Unknown
A woman admitted to being a less than fastidious housekeeper. One evening her husband returned home from work, walked into the kitchen, and said, “You know, dear, I can write my name in the dust on the mantel.” The woman turned to him and sweetly replied, “Well, darling, that’s why I married a college graduate.”
Fred: Why do refrigerators hum?
Ginger: Because they do not know the words.
When Young Melissa Sweeps
When young Melissa sweeps a room
I vow she dances with the broom!
She curtsies in a corner brightly
And leads her partner forth politely.
Then up and down in jigs and reels,
With gold dust flying at their heels,
They caper. With a whirl or two
They make the wainscot shine like new;
They waltz beside the hearth, and quick
It brightens, shabby brick by brick.
A gay gavotte across the floor,
A Highland fling from door to door,
And every crack and corner’s clean
Enough to suit a dainty queen.
If ever you are full of gloom,
Just watch Melissa sweep a room!
By Nancy Byrd Turner (1880 - 1971)
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“Housework is like stringing beads with no knot on the end.” -Author Unknown
“The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain clean forever and ever (which they ought in all reason to do, considering how much trouble it is), there would be less occasion to grumble; but no sooner is it done, than it requires to be done again. On the whole, I have come to the resolution not to use more than one dish at each meal.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
“Home Sweet Home - Please Do Not Feed The Dust Bunnies.” -Author Unknown
"Dust bunnies are magical. Santa’s elves make them at the North Pole during the off-season, and they are then delivered to people’s homes by the other little people: fairies, gnomes, pixies, leprechauns, and so forth, just in time for Spring cleaning." -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“A house becomes a home when you can write, ‘I love you’ on the furniture.” -Author Unknown: “Dust If You Must”
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A Request
Please be a dear
And do your dish here
For if you do not
The house will be wrought
With people disgusted
By the mess that’s displayed
And hence are not able
To dine at the table
For lack of clean dishes
Restricts their good wishes.
By Author Unknown
“Cleaning is just putting stuff in less obvious places.” -Author Unknown
“There were times, indeed, when the vigor she put into her work was more of a relief to her feelings than it was an ardor to efface dirt . . .” -Eleanor H. Porter (Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (1868 - 1920)): “Pollyanna” (1912)
“I recently decided to sell my vacuum cleaner - all it was doing was gathering dust.” -Author Unknown
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Amathophobia is a persistent fear of dust. Amathophobia is derived from the Greek words ‘amathos’ meaning ‘sand’ and ‘phobos’ meaning ‘fear.’ What is a fear of dust bunnies called?
“Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.” -Mario Buatta (1935 - 2018)
Ivy: What do you call a pretty woman using a broom?
Ivan: Sweeping beauty.
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May
Scrub and polish, - sweep and clean, -
Fling your windows wide!
See, the trees are clad in green!
Coax the Spring inside!
Home, be shining fair to-day
For the guest whose name is May!
By Louise Bennett Weaver (Louise Bennett Weaver George (1889 - 1949)) and Helen Cowles LeCron (1886 - 1963): “A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband with Bettina’s Best Recipes” (1917)
“Don’t overlook any available tongues when cleaning. Cats and dogs and other pets can lick clean food surfaces such as plates and floors; children can lick clean mixing spoons and eggbeaters.” -Author Unknown
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“You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.” -Rudyard Kipling (Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936))
“I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.” -D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
Come On In
Although you’ll find our house a mess
Come in - sit down - converse.
It doesn’t always look like this;
Some days it’s even worse.
By Author Unknown
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“My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?” -Erma Bombeck (Erma Louise Bombeck (1927 - 1996))
“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” -Agatha Christie (Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (1890 - 1976))
“You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.” -Cecil Baxter (Cecil Richard Baxter (1922 - 2014))
“When it comes to housework, the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.” -Katharine Whitehorn (Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn (born 1928)): “Roundabout” (1962), ‘Nought for Homework’
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Who’s there?
Dishes.
Dishes, who?
Dishes me, who are you?
Overheard: I got a new dishwasher today . . . I don’t know how long she will want the job.
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Ataxophobia is a persistent fear of disorder or untidiness. Ataxophobia is derived from the Greek words ‘taxo’ meaning ‘order’ and ‘phobia’ meaning ‘fear.’
“The meal’s complete when the kitchen’s neat.” -Author Unknown
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” -William Morris
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“There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.” -Quentin Crisp (Denis Charles Pratt (1908 - 1999))
“Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.” -Anne Gibbons
“Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don’t do it.” -Author Unknown
If the shelves are dusty and the pots don’t shine,
It’s because I have better things to do with my time.
-Author Unknown
“Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not a piece of advice, it is merely a custom.” -Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
What I Like
I like hugs
And I like kisses,
But what I really love
Is help with the dishes!
By Author Unknown
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Overheard: When it comes to house cleaning, I always keep the nuclear option open.
Scrub and polish, - sweep and clean, -
Fling your windows wide!
See, the trees are clad in green!
Coax the Spring inside!
Home, be shining fair to-day
For the guest whose name is May!
By Louise Bennett Weaver (Louise Bennett Weaver George (1889 - 1949)) and Helen Cowles LeCron (1886 - 1963): “A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband with Bettina’s Best Recipes” (1917)
“Don’t overlook any available tongues when cleaning. Cats and dogs and other pets can lick clean food surfaces such as plates and floors; children can lick clean mixing spoons and eggbeaters.” -Author Unknown
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“You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.” -Rudyard Kipling (Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936))
“I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.” -D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
Come On In
Although you’ll find our house a mess
Come in - sit down - converse.
It doesn’t always look like this;
Some days it’s even worse.
By Author Unknown
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“My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?” -Erma Bombeck (Erma Louise Bombeck (1927 - 1996))
“The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” -Agatha Christie (Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (1890 - 1976))
“You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.” -Cecil Baxter (Cecil Richard Baxter (1922 - 2014))
“When it comes to housework, the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.” -Katharine Whitehorn (Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn (born 1928)): “Roundabout” (1962), ‘Nought for Homework’
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Who’s there?
Dishes.
Dishes, who?
Dishes me, who are you?
Overheard: I got a new dishwasher today . . . I don’t know how long she will want the job.
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Ataxophobia is a persistent fear of disorder or untidiness. Ataxophobia is derived from the Greek words ‘taxo’ meaning ‘order’ and ‘phobia’ meaning ‘fear.’
“The meal’s complete when the kitchen’s neat.” -Author Unknown
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” -William Morris
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“There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.” -Quentin Crisp (Denis Charles Pratt (1908 - 1999))
“Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.” -Anne Gibbons
“Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don’t do it.” -Author Unknown
If the shelves are dusty and the pots don’t shine,
It’s because I have better things to do with my time.
-Author Unknown
“Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not a piece of advice, it is merely a custom.” -Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
What I Like
I like hugs
And I like kisses,
But what I really love
Is help with the dishes!
By Author Unknown
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Overheard: When it comes to house cleaning, I always keep the nuclear option open.
“Are you an untidy or forgetful housekeeper? Just remember this simple saying, ‘ABC - Always Be Cleaning.’” -Author Unknown
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“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” -Phyllis Diller (pseudonym of Phyllis Ada Driver (1917 - 2012)): as quoted in Jilly Cooper and Tom Hartman: “Violets and Vinegar” (1980), ‘I Liked You Better Smaller’
Housecleanin’ Time
Well, housecleanin’ time is with us once more;
And, landsakes alive, it’s an awful chore!
What with scrubbin’, rubbin’, and washin’ paint,
It’s not any picnic; you bet it ain’t! . . .
For it has to be done each Spring and Fall:
The attic and cellar, bedrooms and hall.
Each room, in its order, gives up its dirt,
Till I am weary and my back does hurt!
By Gertrude Tooley Buckingham (born 1880) (1940’s)
“My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.” -Bette Midler (born 1945)
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“The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.” -Jack Rosenbaum
“There may be dust in my house but there isn’t any on me.” -Author Unknown
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“I think housework is the reason most women go to the office!” -Heloise Cruse (Ponce Kiah Marchelle Heloise Cruse Evans (born 1951))
“I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on the sofa than sweep underneath it. But you have to be efficient if you’re going to be lazy.” -Shirley Conran (born 1932): “Superwoman” (1975), ‘The Reason Why’
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“Helping his wife wash the dishes, a minister protested, ‘This isn’t a man’s job.’ ‘Oh yes, it is,’ his wife retorted, quoting 2nd Kings, chapter 21, verse 13: ‘I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.’” -Tal Bonham
“We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning?” -Marcus Buckingham
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“Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.” -Marcelene Cox
“This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says, ‘Honey, do this,’ and ‘Honey, do that,’ around the house.” -Jim Lemon (James Robert ‘Jim’ Lemon (1928 - 2006))
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” -A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956))
Overheard: I avoid cleaning my house because I get easily distracted by all of the interesting things I keep finding.
“Housekeeping ain’t no joke.” -Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888): “Little Women” (1868), part 1, chapter 11: ‘Experiments’; line spoken by cook Hannah
“At my house, ‘dust’ is a noun, not a verb.” -Author Unknown
Housekeeping Tips
If it’s loose, pick it up;
If it isn’t, dust it;
If it moves, feed it.
By Author Unknown
Is the dust in your house stardust?
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“Always turn out your closet light. Otherwise, you’ll get up some morning and find you can’t start your closet.” -Charles Schulz (Charles Monroe ‘Sparky’ Schulz (1922 - 2000))
“An efficient homemaker is one who, after dinner, gives the children something to play with in the bathtub, namely, the dinner dishes!” -Author Unknown
“Happiness is . . . walking through my front door and seeing a clean, comfortable, and organized home.” -Author Unknown
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“A place for everything, and everything in its place.” -Author Unknown: proverb
May the very lightness of your being have you walking on air . . . as you MFOL! each and every day . . .
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“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” -Phyllis Diller (pseudonym of Phyllis Ada Driver (1917 - 2012)): as quoted in Jilly Cooper and Tom Hartman: “Violets and Vinegar” (1980), ‘I Liked You Better Smaller’
Housecleanin’ Time
Well, housecleanin’ time is with us once more;
And, landsakes alive, it’s an awful chore!
What with scrubbin’, rubbin’, and washin’ paint,
It’s not any picnic; you bet it ain’t! . . .
For it has to be done each Spring and Fall:
The attic and cellar, bedrooms and hall.
Each room, in its order, gives up its dirt,
Till I am weary and my back does hurt!
By Gertrude Tooley Buckingham (born 1880) (1940’s)
“My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.” -Bette Midler (born 1945)
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“The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.” -Jack Rosenbaum
“There may be dust in my house but there isn’t any on me.” -Author Unknown
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“I think housework is the reason most women go to the office!” -Heloise Cruse (Ponce Kiah Marchelle Heloise Cruse Evans (born 1951))
“I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on the sofa than sweep underneath it. But you have to be efficient if you’re going to be lazy.” -Shirley Conran (born 1932): “Superwoman” (1975), ‘The Reason Why’
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“Helping his wife wash the dishes, a minister protested, ‘This isn’t a man’s job.’ ‘Oh yes, it is,’ his wife retorted, quoting 2nd Kings, chapter 21, verse 13: ‘I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.’” -Tal Bonham
“We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning?” -Marcus Buckingham
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“Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.” -Marcelene Cox
“This is a honeydew day. That is when you get a day off and the wife says, ‘Honey, do this,’ and ‘Honey, do that,’ around the house.” -Jim Lemon (James Robert ‘Jim’ Lemon (1928 - 2006))
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” -A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956))
Overheard: I avoid cleaning my house because I get easily distracted by all of the interesting things I keep finding.
“Housekeeping ain’t no joke.” -Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888): “Little Women” (1868), part 1, chapter 11: ‘Experiments’; line spoken by cook Hannah
“At my house, ‘dust’ is a noun, not a verb.” -Author Unknown
Housekeeping Tips
If it’s loose, pick it up;
If it isn’t, dust it;
If it moves, feed it.
By Author Unknown
Is the dust in your house stardust?
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“Always turn out your closet light. Otherwise, you’ll get up some morning and find you can’t start your closet.” -Charles Schulz (Charles Monroe ‘Sparky’ Schulz (1922 - 2000))
“An efficient homemaker is one who, after dinner, gives the children something to play with in the bathtub, namely, the dinner dishes!” -Author Unknown
“Happiness is . . . walking through my front door and seeing a clean, comfortable, and organized home.” -Author Unknown
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“A place for everything, and everything in its place.” -Author Unknown: proverb
May the very lightness of your being have you walking on air . . . as you MFOL! each and every day . . .
“Life becomes happy, delightful and enjoyable when you set yourself free from worries.” -Author Unknown
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“Much that worries us beforehand can afterwards, quite unexpectedly, have a happy and simple solution. Worries just don’t matter. Things really are in a better hand than ours.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
“Sometimes you have to stop worrying, wondering and doubting. Have faith that things will work out.” -Author Unknown
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Jeb: Let’s make a list of new things to worry about.
Jed: Wow, I never would have thought of that.
Jeb: Sure, it’ll be fun!
“Only a lack of imagination saves me from immobilizing myself with imaginary fears.” -Author Unknown
“A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” -Roy T. Bennett: “The Light in the Heart” (25 February 2016)
“If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.” -Author Unknown
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“There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.” -Duke Ellington (Edward Kennedy ‘Duke’ Ellington (1899 - 1974))
If you’re worried and you can’t sleep,
Just count your blessings instead of sheep,
And you’ll fall asleep counting your blessings.
-Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989): “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep” (1954) song
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” -Morris West (Morris Langlo West (1916 - 1999))
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“We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.” -Cullen Hightower
“Stop worrying . . . and start making jokes!” -Author Unknown
“Stop telling men not to worry; all thinking men do; and such only are the ones who do the world’s work.” -Martin H. Fischer (1879 - 1962)
“The best antidote to worry is work.” -A. J. Cronin (Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 - 1981))
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“Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.” -James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891): “Democracy” (1887)
“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.” -Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
“When despair for the world grows in me . . . I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief . . . For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” -Wendell Berry (Wendell Erdman Berry (born 1934)): “The Peace of Wild Things” (1968) at berrycenter.org
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“We sort our lives into carefully labeled boxes: things we definitely need to worry about; things we may need to worry about; things we already have worried about and it didn’t do any good; things we worried about where there was a definite payoff; things we are worried about worrying about; things that we definitely do not need to worry about.” -Anne Wilson Schaef
“Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow.” -Author Unknown
My Worry
A little bitty worry
Started early in the day;
By noon it seemed my worry
Hovered, standing in my way;
The things and thoughts
I should have had
Got buried in my mind,
Until my little worry turned
Into the horrid kind.
By bedtime I was frantic -
What to do, oh what to do!
And then I couldn’t go to sleep,
For worrying - fretting, too.
By morning I was almost sick,
When suddenly and soon,
My worry had been all worked out
Before the toll of noon;
Then I looked back
And saw my worry
Just for what it was -
A thing that didn’t happen,
As a worry seldom does.
By Bonnie Daisy Nelson: as published in “A Garden of Poems” from the Salesian Collection
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“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965))
“The antidote to worry is purposeful action.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
“I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.” -Dorothy Dix (pseudonym of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (1861 - 1951)): “Dorothy Dix, Her Book,” ‘Introduction’
“By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.” -Jack Dempsey
“Worry is like anything else you do: keep practicing and, unfortunately, you’ll get better at it.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
“Worry is today’s mice nibbling on tomorrow’s cheese.” -Author Unknown
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“Worrying won’t stop the bad stuff from happening, it just stops you from enjoying the good.” -Author Unknown
“There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Anne of Windy Poplars” (1936)
“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.” -Ethel Barrett (1913 - 1998)
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“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” -Author Unknown: Swedish proverb
“Let not your heart be troubled.” -John: as quoted in “The Bible” (King James Version (1611)), ‘The Gospel According to John,’ chapter 14, verse 1
Overheard: Don’t tell me worrying doesn’t do any good - I know better! Most of the things I worry about never happen.
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“Meditate upon exile, torture, wars, diseases, shipwreck . . . so that you may not be a novice to any misfortune.” -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.” -Shannon L. Alder at https://www.shannonalder.com/
“Worrying takes up just as much time as work, but work pays better dividends.” -Author Unknown
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“People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.” -Jean Molière (pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 - 1673))
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (1595), Book 3, chapter 1
“All forms of worry and anxiety are in essence fear . . .” -William J. Fielding (1927)
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“Worry: A state of mind that leads some persons to fear, every time the tide goes out, that it won’t come in again.” -Charles Wayland Towne: “The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc.” (1904)
“The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the Universe for God to worry about.” -Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis (1878 - 1937))
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“Much that worries us beforehand can afterwards, quite unexpectedly, have a happy and simple solution. Worries just don’t matter. Things really are in a better hand than ours.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
“Sometimes you have to stop worrying, wondering and doubting. Have faith that things will work out.” -Author Unknown
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Jeb: Let’s make a list of new things to worry about.
Jed: Wow, I never would have thought of that.
Jeb: Sure, it’ll be fun!
“Only a lack of imagination saves me from immobilizing myself with imaginary fears.” -Author Unknown
“A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” -Roy T. Bennett: “The Light in the Heart” (25 February 2016)
“If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.” -Author Unknown
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“There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.” -Duke Ellington (Edward Kennedy ‘Duke’ Ellington (1899 - 1974))
If you’re worried and you can’t sleep,
Just count your blessings instead of sheep,
And you’ll fall asleep counting your blessings.
-Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989): “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep” (1954) song
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” -Morris West (Morris Langlo West (1916 - 1999))
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“We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.” -Cullen Hightower
“Stop worrying . . . and start making jokes!” -Author Unknown
“Stop telling men not to worry; all thinking men do; and such only are the ones who do the world’s work.” -Martin H. Fischer (1879 - 1962)
“The best antidote to worry is work.” -A. J. Cronin (Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 - 1981))
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“Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.” -James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891): “Democracy” (1887)
“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.” -Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
“When despair for the world grows in me . . . I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief . . . For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” -Wendell Berry (Wendell Erdman Berry (born 1934)): “The Peace of Wild Things” (1968) at berrycenter.org
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“We sort our lives into carefully labeled boxes: things we definitely need to worry about; things we may need to worry about; things we already have worried about and it didn’t do any good; things we worried about where there was a definite payoff; things we are worried about worrying about; things that we definitely do not need to worry about.” -Anne Wilson Schaef
“Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow.” -Author Unknown
My Worry
A little bitty worry
Started early in the day;
By noon it seemed my worry
Hovered, standing in my way;
The things and thoughts
I should have had
Got buried in my mind,
Until my little worry turned
Into the horrid kind.
By bedtime I was frantic -
What to do, oh what to do!
And then I couldn’t go to sleep,
For worrying - fretting, too.
By morning I was almost sick,
When suddenly and soon,
My worry had been all worked out
Before the toll of noon;
Then I looked back
And saw my worry
Just for what it was -
A thing that didn’t happen,
As a worry seldom does.
By Bonnie Daisy Nelson: as published in “A Garden of Poems” from the Salesian Collection
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“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965))
“The antidote to worry is purposeful action.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com
“I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.” -Dorothy Dix (pseudonym of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (1861 - 1951)): “Dorothy Dix, Her Book,” ‘Introduction’
“By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.” -Jack Dempsey
“Worry is like anything else you do: keep practicing and, unfortunately, you’ll get better at it.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
“Worry is today’s mice nibbling on tomorrow’s cheese.” -Author Unknown
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“Worrying won’t stop the bad stuff from happening, it just stops you from enjoying the good.” -Author Unknown
“There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Anne of Windy Poplars” (1936)
“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.” -Ethel Barrett (1913 - 1998)
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“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” -Author Unknown: Swedish proverb
“Let not your heart be troubled.” -John: as quoted in “The Bible” (King James Version (1611)), ‘The Gospel According to John,’ chapter 14, verse 1
Overheard: Don’t tell me worrying doesn’t do any good - I know better! Most of the things I worry about never happen.
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“Meditate upon exile, torture, wars, diseases, shipwreck . . . so that you may not be a novice to any misfortune.” -Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Younger (3 B.C.E. - C.E. 65))
“When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.” -Shannon L. Alder at https://www.shannonalder.com/
“Worrying takes up just as much time as work, but work pays better dividends.” -Author Unknown
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“People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.” -Jean Molière (pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622 - 1673))
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)): “Essais” (English: “Essays”) (1595), Book 3, chapter 1
“All forms of worry and anxiety are in essence fear . . .” -William J. Fielding (1927)
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“Worry: A state of mind that leads some persons to fear, every time the tide goes out, that it won’t come in again.” -Charles Wayland Towne: “The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc.” (1904)
“The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the Universe for God to worry about.” -Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis (1878 - 1937))
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A Worry
A worry crept into a mind,
Leaving claw marks and gashes behind.
It turned the mind blue
As it twisted each screw
Then it chuckled, and left, with a grind.
By Author Unknown
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“Don’t let your worries get the best of you. Remember, Moses started out as a basket case.” -Author Unknown
A worry crept into a mind,
Leaving claw marks and gashes behind.
It turned the mind blue
As it twisted each screw
Then it chuckled, and left, with a grind.
By Author Unknown
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“Don’t let your worries get the best of you. Remember, Moses started out as a basket case.” -Author Unknown
Never Happens
We often distress ourselves greatly in the
apprehension of misfortune which
after all never happens at all.
We should do our best, and wait calmly the result,
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork;
but in nine cases out of ten they are really
suffering from worry or anxiety.
By John Lubbock (1834 - 1913)
We often distress ourselves greatly in the
apprehension of misfortune which
after all never happens at all.
We should do our best, and wait calmly the result,
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork;
but in nine cases out of ten they are really
suffering from worry or anxiety.
By John Lubbock (1834 - 1913)
“Worry whomps and wails on weary souls.” -Terri Guillemets
“Wringing your hands only stops you from rolling up your sleeves.” -James Rollins
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“How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” (1948) is a self-help book by Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955))). Mr. Carnegie wrote in the preface of the book that he wrote it because he “was one of the unhappiest lads in New York.” He said that he made himself sick with worry because he hated his position in life. The goal of the book is to lead the reader to a more enjoyable and fulfilling life, helping them to become more aware of not only themselves, but of others around them. Mr. Carnegie addresses the everyday nuances of living, in order to get the reader to focus on the larger canvas of life. Available in print or e-reader version from your favorite book seller.
“Don’t fill your head with worries. There won’t be room for anything else.” -Author Unknown
“If you’re overwhelmed by thinking of all there is to be done, stop thinking about it so much and start working on it.” -Author Unknown
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“Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles, it takes away today’s peace.” -Author Unknown
“Some of today’s worries are like puddles: tomorrow they will have evaporated.” -Author Unknown
“‘Each day has troubles enough of its own,’ so why anticipate them? If we do, we double them. For if our fear does not materialize, we have worried once for nothing; if it does materialize, we have worried twice instead of once. In both cases, it is foolish; worry doubles trouble.” -John R. W. Stott
“Do not worry too much - you will create a problem that was not even there in the first place!” -Author Unknown
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Every life has some trouble
When you worry you make it double.
-Bobby McFerrin (born 1950)
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” -Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - about C.E. 17))
“There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.” -Harold Stephens (born 1926)
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“Work is as necessary for peace of mind as for health of the body. A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system, work keeps it in health and order. Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): “The Use of Life” (1894), ‘Industry’
“Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.” -Leo Aikman (James Leo Aikman (1908 - 1978))
“Worry: Mountain climbing over molehills.” -Author Unknown
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“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
“The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.” -Rick Warren (Richard Duane Warren (born 1954)) at https://pastorrick.com/
Worry
Worry is a futile thing,
It’s somewhat like a rocking chair;
Although it keeps you occupied,
It doesn’t get you anywhere.
By Author Unknown
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“It only seems as if you’re doing something when you worry.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Anne of Windy Poplars” (1936)
“Don’t worry; we all make mistakes, so forget about the past and move on with life.” -Author Unknown
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“A worry a day drains the vitality away.” -Author Unknown
“Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“Worry takes as much time as work and pays less.” -Author Unknown
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“Show me a worrying person and I will show you a person who does not know how to relax.” -Albert E. Cliffe (Albert Edward Cliffe (1892 - 1954))
“Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don’t take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.” -Douglas Pagels (born 1950)
“You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.” -Janis Joplin (1943 - 1970)
“The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.” -Wayne Dyer (born 1940)
“Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” -Epictetus (about C.E. 55 - about C.E. 135)
“Wringing your hands only stops you from rolling up your sleeves.” -James Rollins
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“How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” (1948) is a self-help book by Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955))). Mr. Carnegie wrote in the preface of the book that he wrote it because he “was one of the unhappiest lads in New York.” He said that he made himself sick with worry because he hated his position in life. The goal of the book is to lead the reader to a more enjoyable and fulfilling life, helping them to become more aware of not only themselves, but of others around them. Mr. Carnegie addresses the everyday nuances of living, in order to get the reader to focus on the larger canvas of life. Available in print or e-reader version from your favorite book seller.
“Don’t fill your head with worries. There won’t be room for anything else.” -Author Unknown
“If you’re overwhelmed by thinking of all there is to be done, stop thinking about it so much and start working on it.” -Author Unknown
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“Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles, it takes away today’s peace.” -Author Unknown
“Some of today’s worries are like puddles: tomorrow they will have evaporated.” -Author Unknown
“‘Each day has troubles enough of its own,’ so why anticipate them? If we do, we double them. For if our fear does not materialize, we have worried once for nothing; if it does materialize, we have worried twice instead of once. In both cases, it is foolish; worry doubles trouble.” -John R. W. Stott
“Do not worry too much - you will create a problem that was not even there in the first place!” -Author Unknown
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Every life has some trouble
When you worry you make it double.
-Bobby McFerrin (born 1950)
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” -Publius Ovidius Naso (also known simply as Ovid (43 B.C.E. - about C.E. 17))
“There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.” -Harold Stephens (born 1926)
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“Work is as necessary for peace of mind as for health of the body. A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system, work keeps it in health and order. Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.” -John Lubbock (1834 - 1913): “The Use of Life” (1894), ‘Industry’
“Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.” -Leo Aikman (James Leo Aikman (1908 - 1978))
“Worry: Mountain climbing over molehills.” -Author Unknown
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“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.” -William James (1842 - 1910)
“The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.” -Rick Warren (Richard Duane Warren (born 1954)) at https://pastorrick.com/
Worry
Worry is a futile thing,
It’s somewhat like a rocking chair;
Although it keeps you occupied,
It doesn’t get you anywhere.
By Author Unknown
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“It only seems as if you’re doing something when you worry.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Anne of Windy Poplars” (1936)
“Don’t worry; we all make mistakes, so forget about the past and move on with life.” -Author Unknown
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“A worry a day drains the vitality away.” -Author Unknown
“Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))
“Worry takes as much time as work and pays less.” -Author Unknown
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“Show me a worrying person and I will show you a person who does not know how to relax.” -Albert E. Cliffe (Albert Edward Cliffe (1892 - 1954))
“Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don’t take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.” -Douglas Pagels (born 1950)
“You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.” -Janis Joplin (1943 - 1970)
“The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.” -Wayne Dyer (born 1940)
“Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” -Epictetus (about C.E. 55 - about C.E. 135)
“Many people worry a lot today about tomorrow because they didn’t worry a little yesterday about today.” -Author Unknown: “Capsules of Wisdom”
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“How much pain have cost us, the evils that have never happened.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826): letter (21 February 1825) to Thomas Jefferson Smith
“We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.” -Etty Hillesum (Esther ‘Etty’ Hillesum (1914 - 1943))
“Worry never accomplishes anything. When you have a problem, it is best to concentrate on the solution to that problem, not the problem itself.” -Thomas D. Willhite (Thomas Dale Willhite (1940 - 1983))
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“A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. ‘I reckon,’ he said with a twinkle in his eye, ‘It’s because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.’” -Dorothea Kent (1916 - 1990)
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“How much pain have cost us, the evils that have never happened.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826): letter (21 February 1825) to Thomas Jefferson Smith
“We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.” -Etty Hillesum (Esther ‘Etty’ Hillesum (1914 - 1943))
“Worry never accomplishes anything. When you have a problem, it is best to concentrate on the solution to that problem, not the problem itself.” -Thomas D. Willhite (Thomas Dale Willhite (1940 - 1983))
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“A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. ‘I reckon,’ he said with a twinkle in his eye, ‘It’s because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.’” -Dorothea Kent (1916 - 1990)
Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
So do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
By Jesus of Nazareth: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Matthew,’ chapter 6, verses 25 through 34
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
So do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
By Jesus of Nazareth: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Matthew,’ chapter 6, verses 25 through 34
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength - carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” -Corrie ten Boom (Cornelia ‘Corrie’ ten Boom (1892 - 1983)): “Clippings from my Notebook” (1982)
“Worrying is silly - it is like walking around with an umbrella, waiting for it to rain.” -Author Unknown
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“If any man or woman knows more about worrying than I do, that man or woman is sincerely to be pitied. To begin with, I come of honorable generations of worriers, all of whom seemed to be deeply sensible of their responsibility for the carrying on of a world which they did not create. My grandfather used to worry about the weather and crops. My mother worried with an elaboration and finish which really lent distinction to her performance. She could worry harder and longer on less provocation than anybody else I ever knew. When it became my turn to take up the burden of the universe I was quite as successful as she.” -Mary Boardman Page: “The Confessions of a Worrier” (1899)
“To worry about tomorrow is to be unhappy today.” -Author Unknown
How can you make the ‘Worry List’ you carry in your head a little shorter?
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Don’t shoulder the burdens of others! . . .
Each man has his own special troubles,
His worries and problems and woes;
Give aid when you can to each mortal,
But try not to feel all his blows!
For you, too, have burdens to carry;
And, if you just wear yourself out
In agony over all others,
How can you, your own troubles, rout?
-Gertrude Tooley Buckingham (1880 - 1971): “Good Advice”
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!” -Barbara Hoffman
“In order to be done in a useful manner, worrying must be done quickly and then completely gotten over with. Worrying is a natural trait that helps us to figure out if there is something that needs to be done so that we can then do it, and if not, then stop worrying and get on with the daily activities and the great adventure of life!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.” -Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
“There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way, they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.” -Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818 - 1885))
“You can’t change the past, but you can a ruin a perfectly good present worrying about the future.” -Author Unknown
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“Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.” -Walt Disney (Walter Elias ‘Walt’ Disney (1901 - 1966))
“Worry is like riding a roller coaster. It scares the wits out of you, and you always end up right where you started.” -Author Unknown
“What if we knew for certain that everything we’re worried about today will work out fine? What if . . . we knew the future was going to be good, and we would have an abundance of resources and guidance to handle whatever comes our way? What if . . . we knew everything was okay, and we didn’t have to worry about a thing? What would we do then? We’d be free to let go and enjoy life.” -Melody Beattie (Melody Lynn Beattie (born 1948)): “The Language of Letting Go” (1990) at https://melodybeattie.com/
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Unreal Troubles
If I must have an ill, may it be real,
That I may meet it eye to eye and fight,
And wheresoever it may strength reveal
Get after it with all my main and might.
The woe that but impends and wears the mind
With worry deep and most vexatious care,
Is harder fighting than the realler kind,
For when you come to strike - it isn’t there!
By John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922): “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day” (1920), ‘Unreal Troubles’ (March Fifteenth)
“Lots of men spend two dollars’ worth of worry over the loss of a quarter.” -Noah Lott (George V. Hobart): “The Silly Syclopedia” (1905)
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“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.” -Corrie ten Boom (Cornelia ‘Corrie’ ten Boom (1892 - 1983))
“Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn’t change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keep you busy doing nothing.” -Author Unknown
“If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will overlook what is.” -Author Unknown
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“It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can’t dodge a fly.” -Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818 - 1885))
“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime, you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.” -Mary Hemingway (1908 - 1986)
“I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.” -William Powell
“I’ve got 99 problems and 86 of them are completely made up scenarios in my head that I’m stressing about for absolutely no logical reason.” -Author Unknown
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“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep always in the sunlight.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
“Worrying is like wishing for something that you do not want.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“All worry is your imagination. Why not use your imagination to explore happier options?” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly (born 1952) at www.JoyOfQuotes.com
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“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.” -A. J. Cronin (Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 - 1981)): as quoted in “Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families” (1985) by Hazelden Publishing, page 11 at https://www.hazelden.org/
I was early taught to work as well as play,
My life has been one long, happy holiday;
Full of work and full of play -
I dropped the worry on the way -
And God was good to me every day.
-John Davison Rockefeller, Senior (1839 - 1937): verses written on his eighty-sixth birthday (8 July 1925)
“One day you’ll look back and realize that you worried too much about things that didn’t really matter.” -Author Unknown
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The other day someone sent me a “Don’t Worry Book.” Have you seen it? The book purports to be the constitution and by-laws of the “Don’t Worry Club,” which is exempt from fees, unlimited as to membership, has no badge and has absolutely no requirements except that worry is strictly forbidden . . .
Its best feature, to my mind, is its very simplicity. There are no public meetings or conventions, no wearisome harangues, no “boards,” no “secretaries” to entertain, no fellow members to buttonhole or bore you, no badge to publish you. In short, the “Don’t Worry Club” seems to be a sort of independent secret society whose members, unknown to each other, are not restricted to race or color . . .
As for myself, I am starting a “Don’t Worry Club” forthwith, and I wish to be its president - not that I crave office, but because I am seething with enthusiasm and want to push the society. If all eligible men and women were to become members, I am persuaded that the list would be a long one . . .
-Paterfamilias: ‘Don’t Worry’ published in “The Evangelical Episcopalian” (1900)
“The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life.” -Leon Brown
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At MFOL! we are worried that we might be taken seriously . . . okay, that’s enough worrying for one day . . . now let’s have fun or do work . . . whatever prevents worry from taking over . . .
“Worrying is silly - it is like walking around with an umbrella, waiting for it to rain.” -Author Unknown
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“If any man or woman knows more about worrying than I do, that man or woman is sincerely to be pitied. To begin with, I come of honorable generations of worriers, all of whom seemed to be deeply sensible of their responsibility for the carrying on of a world which they did not create. My grandfather used to worry about the weather and crops. My mother worried with an elaboration and finish which really lent distinction to her performance. She could worry harder and longer on less provocation than anybody else I ever knew. When it became my turn to take up the burden of the universe I was quite as successful as she.” -Mary Boardman Page: “The Confessions of a Worrier” (1899)
“To worry about tomorrow is to be unhappy today.” -Author Unknown
How can you make the ‘Worry List’ you carry in your head a little shorter?
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Don’t shoulder the burdens of others! . . .
Each man has his own special troubles,
His worries and problems and woes;
Give aid when you can to each mortal,
But try not to feel all his blows!
For you, too, have burdens to carry;
And, if you just wear yourself out
In agony over all others,
How can you, your own troubles, rout?
-Gertrude Tooley Buckingham (1880 - 1971): “Good Advice”
“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!” -Barbara Hoffman
“In order to be done in a useful manner, worrying must be done quickly and then completely gotten over with. Worrying is a natural trait that helps us to figure out if there is something that needs to be done so that we can then do it, and if not, then stop worrying and get on with the daily activities and the great adventure of life!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.” -Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
“There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way, they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.” -Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818 - 1885))
“You can’t change the past, but you can a ruin a perfectly good present worrying about the future.” -Author Unknown
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“Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.” -Walt Disney (Walter Elias ‘Walt’ Disney (1901 - 1966))
“Worry is like riding a roller coaster. It scares the wits out of you, and you always end up right where you started.” -Author Unknown
“What if we knew for certain that everything we’re worried about today will work out fine? What if . . . we knew the future was going to be good, and we would have an abundance of resources and guidance to handle whatever comes our way? What if . . . we knew everything was okay, and we didn’t have to worry about a thing? What would we do then? We’d be free to let go and enjoy life.” -Melody Beattie (Melody Lynn Beattie (born 1948)): “The Language of Letting Go” (1990) at https://melodybeattie.com/
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Unreal Troubles
If I must have an ill, may it be real,
That I may meet it eye to eye and fight,
And wheresoever it may strength reveal
Get after it with all my main and might.
The woe that but impends and wears the mind
With worry deep and most vexatious care,
Is harder fighting than the realler kind,
For when you come to strike - it isn’t there!
By John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922): “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day” (1920), ‘Unreal Troubles’ (March Fifteenth)
“Lots of men spend two dollars’ worth of worry over the loss of a quarter.” -Noah Lott (George V. Hobart): “The Silly Syclopedia” (1905)
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“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.” -Corrie ten Boom (Cornelia ‘Corrie’ ten Boom (1892 - 1983))
“Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn’t change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keep you busy doing nothing.” -Author Unknown
“If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will overlook what is.” -Author Unknown
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“It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can’t dodge a fly.” -Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818 - 1885))
“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime, you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.” -Mary Hemingway (1908 - 1986)
“I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.” -William Powell
“I’ve got 99 problems and 86 of them are completely made up scenarios in my head that I’m stressing about for absolutely no logical reason.” -Author Unknown
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“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep always in the sunlight.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790))
“Worrying is like wishing for something that you do not want.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“All worry is your imagination. Why not use your imagination to explore happier options?” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly (born 1952) at www.JoyOfQuotes.com
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“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.” -A. J. Cronin (Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896 - 1981)): as quoted in “Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families” (1985) by Hazelden Publishing, page 11 at https://www.hazelden.org/
I was early taught to work as well as play,
My life has been one long, happy holiday;
Full of work and full of play -
I dropped the worry on the way -
And God was good to me every day.
-John Davison Rockefeller, Senior (1839 - 1937): verses written on his eighty-sixth birthday (8 July 1925)
“One day you’ll look back and realize that you worried too much about things that didn’t really matter.” -Author Unknown
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The other day someone sent me a “Don’t Worry Book.” Have you seen it? The book purports to be the constitution and by-laws of the “Don’t Worry Club,” which is exempt from fees, unlimited as to membership, has no badge and has absolutely no requirements except that worry is strictly forbidden . . .
Its best feature, to my mind, is its very simplicity. There are no public meetings or conventions, no wearisome harangues, no “boards,” no “secretaries” to entertain, no fellow members to buttonhole or bore you, no badge to publish you. In short, the “Don’t Worry Club” seems to be a sort of independent secret society whose members, unknown to each other, are not restricted to race or color . . .
As for myself, I am starting a “Don’t Worry Club” forthwith, and I wish to be its president - not that I crave office, but because I am seething with enthusiasm and want to push the society. If all eligible men and women were to become members, I am persuaded that the list would be a long one . . .
-Paterfamilias: ‘Don’t Worry’ published in “The Evangelical Episcopalian” (1900)
“The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life.” -Leon Brown
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At MFOL! we are worried that we might be taken seriously . . . okay, that’s enough worrying for one day . . . now let’s have fun or do work . . . whatever prevents worry from taking over . . .
