“Happy, Happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!” Charles Dickens
“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” ― Alan Turing
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! Audrey Hepburn
Arnold, CA…Watching the presidential race acceptance and concession speeches should make one appreciative of our system of government regardless if your candidate will be moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave or moving into political retirement. Knowing also that here locally there have been winners and losers on issues and in quests to obtain or retain an […]
“In all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.” Mark Twain
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.” Dale Carnegie 1888 – 1955
“In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.” Proverbs 14:23 KJV King James who reigned from 4 July 1567 – 27 March 1625. He sponsored the King James Translation of the Bible. It was completed in 1611 and was until the last 50 years or so regarded […]
“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” –Henry Ford
“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.” Muhammad Ali
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist” Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare Brought To You By Allison James Real Estate
“When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.” Thomas Jefferson Brought To You By Allison James Real Estate
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” Thomas Jefferson Brought To You By Allison James Real Estate
“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.” ― John Wooden Brought To You By Allison James Real Estate
“Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.” Ben Franklin Brought To You By Allison James Real Estate
“I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.” Steve McQueen Brought To You By Allison James Real Estate
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. Thomas Jefferson Brought To You By Allison James Real Estate
I bargained with Life for a penny And Life would pay no more However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer He gives you what you ask But once you have set the wages Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial’s hire […]
Paris, FR…Written when he was Ambassador to France. “I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, […]
“The king’s cheese is half wasted in parings; but no matter, ’tis made of the people’s milk.” Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack Portrait of U.S. statesman, inventor, and diplomat Benjamin Franklin as he looks on one hundred dollar bill
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible” Walt Disney 1901 – 1966
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.” Dr. Wayne Dryer 1940-2015
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer 1940 – August 29, 2015
“A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.” Bret Harte 1836 – 1902 Bret Harte was born on this day in 1836
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or abilities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” William Penn 1644-1718
