Need saying of the day....

Here's my favorite quote, but I don't know who said it first:

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming..."Wow! What a ride!"

In a similar vein: A good friend will come at 3am with the bail money. Your best friend is in the cell with you, saying 'wasn't this a fun night?'.

MM

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways. -- Anonymous

OR...


Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. -- Steven Coallier

OR...

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. --- James Dean

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

-- Mark Twain

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One of my favorites

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
-Edgar R. Fiedler

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
-Edward R. Murrow

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Shakespeare

There is no winning, only losing. ^_^

-An

StephanieFox said:

I've got an office meeting coming up tomorrow (11/9/09) and have been assigned to give 'the saying of the day.' I'm looking for something that's NOT one of those things from an inspirational poster. I'm a wise-ass by nature and am having trouble finding something that's not too flippant. Anyone have any suggestions?

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It would help if we knew what thoughts you were trying to express.

Failing that, for some quick morality try
The Book of Proverbs
and
Poor Richard's Almanac.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. - Cicero


Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

You may have no need for more, but I find Bertrand Russell to be very quotable:

1) A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

2) If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

3) Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

4) The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.