The most notable quotes; 1950 to 1988; Contains 9,000 quotations; 4,000 sources; organized into 25 categories and 60 sections. |
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To all the young people out there...STAY IN SCHOOL! Jerry Aragon/The Humor Doctor humordoctormd@yahoo.com |
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When I first starting building my website, one of the first things I did, was to create a storage place for all my graphics. Whenever I would go out surfing in the clip-art library, I would see graphcs I liked, and rather than bookmark them, I would bring them in and store them here. I'm glad I did that, because Homestead (host) has since done away with the clip-art library, and I would have lost all those images. This page has never been open to the public until now (2007), and I certainly hope you find it interesting. I was dis-connected from my website and from the Internet for over 2 1/2 years because of hardship and heart failure, etc. After my return, I deleted many pages on my website, and all the images were placed in storage, for use at another time. |
Articles; quips; ideas; stories; captioned graphics; teaching aid the do's and dont's; poems; sayings/quots; |
Everyone is creative, and so are YOU! .Most of us have heard the term, "writer's block," which usually pertains to writers. I like to use the term, "creative block," because everyone is creative in their own way...some people are more creative than others. In his book, Sam Walton (Wal-Mart), said that he never stole ideas from his competitor's, but that he would see what they were doing, and modify their ideas to his way of thinking. This website is about humor and ideas! And, people can come here and see the ideas I have used on my site, modify them for their own use, etc. |
Recently, I received the following email from a woman named Caroline, who lives in Honolulu, Hawaii and she writes: "Hi Jerry...I think your website is wonderfully funny! I am a consultant and director of a non-profit. We are in the Honolulu office, of the Small Business Development Center (associated with the SBA), and are in the formation stage of putting a newsletter together, for our small business clients. I would like to ask permission to use some of the material on your website, to help keep our clients laughing (and healthy)...with some of your quips; stories, or maybe even visuals. May I gain your permission? Would you like for me to put in a request.for each item, or how would you like me to process that? Looking forward to hearing positively from you. Thanks loads, and I still have a smile on my face from last night...Caroline." Permission was given to Caroline. The "idea" for this page came because of the email from Caroline, and it allowed me to put this page to work, as it was just gathering dust, etc. |
Anyone can use the material on my website, if they do the following: 1) Give proper credit and/or a link back to my site. You can learn about captioning graphics; color and page balance; the use of white space; black and white pages; enlarging/reducing graphics; backgrounds, silliness, taking chances, etc...etc...etc. |
Get Inspired...Get Motivated...Get Going! These funny one-liners (quips), can be used in letters; articles and books, or for whatever you choose...and all are FREE! |
For many months, I have collected the sayings/quots that you see on this page, and I have used them throughout my website and for my display show. The visitor can use them for free, and use them for their websites; projects; newsletters; or any other way they may choose. School kids can use the sayings/quots for their school projects, and I will add to the list as I get them.. |
"I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy." . Murie Curie "They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." Carl W. Buecher "My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made." Robert Browning "Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone expects of you, and never excuse yourself." Henry Ward Beecher "We design our lives through the power of choices." Richard Bach "When you have to make a choice, and don't make it...that in itself is a choice." William James "If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals...you don't take the risk." Rosyln Carter "Many of life's failures, are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up" Thomas Edison " Our greatest glory, is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Persistent people begin their success, where others end in failure." Edward Eggeston "Failure is the opportunity to begin more intelligently." Henry Ford |
"The trouble with our times is the future is not what it used to be." Paul Valery "Good Humor is one of the best articles of dress in society." William Thakery "Failures are made by those who fail to dare...not by those who dare to fail." Lester Pearson "How you spend your time is more important, than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected...but time is gone forever." David Norris "The fine art of success requires persistence." French proverb "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." Helen Keller "No matter what accomplishments you have...somebody helped you." Aretha Gipson "The best way to cheer yourself up...is to try to cheer someone else up." Mark Twain "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Elenor Roosevelt "If you feel inferior to someone, it's because of your beliefs." Catherine Pulsifer "Straighten up your room, and then the world." Jeff Jordon "It's so hard to detect good luck...it looks so much like something you've earned." Fred Clark "Welcome every morning with a smile. Look at a new day as another special day from the Creator. Another golden opportunity to complete what you didn't finish yesterday." Og Mandino |
"Laughter is a tranquillizer with no side-effects." Arnold Glasow "There are only two ways to live your life...one is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein "There are always flowers for those who want to see them." Henri Matisse "Goals determine what you want to be." Julius Erving "Act if what you makes a difference...it does!" William James "If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't hve anything to laugh at when you grow old." Ed Howe "Take calculated risks. That's different from being rash." George S. Patton "There's no security on earth...only opportunity." Douglas MacArther "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." James Bryant Conant "Laughter is the best shock absorber of life." Unkown "Humor can be dangerous to your illness." Steve Sultanoff "Treat your friends like you do your pictures...put them in the best light." Jennie Jerome Churchill "Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it." Irving Berlin "A joy that isn't shared...dies young." Ann Sexton "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers "Perhaps, you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the receipient may cherish them over a lifetime." Dale Carnegie "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nothing of great value in life comes easily." Norman Vincent Peale "If you wait to do everything until you're right, you'll probably never do much of anything." Win Borlen ""It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quite we are towards to defects of others." Joseph Addison "I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet." Indian proverb "If you don't like something...change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou "If you have time to whine and complain about something...then you have time to do something about it." Anthony Ward |
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"Don't complain about what you don't have. Enjoy what you have." H. Stanley Judd "When I started counting my blessings...my life turned around." Willie Nelson "Every burden is a blessing." Walt Kelly "There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster. Richard Bach "Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many...and not on your past mis-fortunes of which all men have some." Charles Dickens "I'm a great believer in luck...and I find that the harder I work, the more of it I have." Thomas Jefferson "Positive thoughts, not only make you feel happier, but make you live longer." M. Soni "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." Les Brown "All men who have achieved great things, have been great dreamers." Orisen Marden "You will never find time for anything...you must make it." Charles Buxton "Looking back, I have this to regret...that too ofter when I've loved...I did not say so." David Grayson "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." John Barrymore |
"II have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times you go through builds character, making you a much stronger person." Rita Moreno "I'd rather regret the things I have done, than the things I have not." Lucille Ball "If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there?" Unknow "For those who want to succeed, will find a way...and for those who don't...will find an excuse." Leo Aquila "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless." Mother Teresa "Winners take time to relish their work. Knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view so exhilariting." Dennis Whatley "If you have a lemon...make lemonade." Howard Gossage "Live your life, so that whenever you lose, you are ahead." Will Rogers "Bad habits are like a comfortable bed...easy to get into...but hard to get out of." Anonymous "What seems to us as bitter trials, are often blessings in disguise." Oscar Wilde "Never talk defeat. Use words like hope; belief; faith; victory." Norman Vincent Peale " Hope is the best part of our riches." Christian Neuell Bovee "What oxegon is to the lungs, such is hope is to the meaning of life." Unknown "Hope never abandons you...you abandon it." George Weinberg |
"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." William Sloan Coffin "We cannot do great things on this Earth. We can only do little things with great love." Mother Theresa "Hope is the thing with feathers...that perches on the soul." Emily Dickenson "It's not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsible to change." Charle Darwin "The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." William James "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change, but what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better." G.C Lichtenberg "Often times the only change people like is when the change makes noise in their pocket." Unknown "I don't ever look back...I look forward." Steffi Graf "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." Harry Truman "Life's challanges are not supposed to paralize you...they're supposed to help you discover who you are." Bernice Johnson Reagan "To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like." Mike Gatka "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it." Washington Irving "The obsticles you face...mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach." Clarence Blasier "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Maquib Mahfouz "Having a positive mental attitude, is asking how something can be done, instead of saying it can't be done." Bo Bennett "The only difference between a good and a bad day is your attitude." Dennis Brown "It takes but one positive thought, when given a chance to survive and thrive to over-power an entire army of negative thougts." Robert. H. Schuller "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." Martin Luther King "Out of clutter...find simplicity." Albert Einstein "If you tell the truth...you don't have to remember anything." Mark Twain "Never look down at anybody, unless you're helping him up." Jesse Jackson "What would your life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything." Vincent Van Gogh "The time for action is now. It's never to late to do something." Carl Sandberg "You don't get in life what you want. You get in life what you are. Les Brown "Life reflects your own life back to you." Napoleon Hill "The essence of all beautiful art...all great art is gratitude." Friedrich Nietzhe "Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinetely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." Isak Dinesen "Do your best and people may like it." Sam Ewing "Although, no one can make a brand new start, anyone from now on, can make a brand new ending. Carl Bard "Our greatest power is often simple patience." E. Joseph Cossman "Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life." Denis Whatley "A man who trims himself to suit everybody, will whittle himself away." Charles Schwab "He that is good for making excuses, is seldom good for anything else." Benjamin Franklin "You don't choose the day you enter the world, and you don't choose the day when you leave. It's what you do in between that makes all the difference." Anita Septimus "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." Lucille Ball "It's not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanks giving." W.T. Purkiser "When asked if my cup is half full or half empty...my only response is that I am thankful that I have a cup." Sam Lefkowitz "If the only prayer you said your whole life was 'thank you,' that would suffice." Meister Eckhart "A real friend is one who walks in, when the rest of the world walks out." Walter Winchell"You've got to work with what you've got to work with." Stevie Wonder |
To all the young people out there...STAY IN SCHOOL! Jerry Aragon/The Humor Doctor humordoctormd@yahoo.com |
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"The more I help others to succeed...the more I succeed." Ray Krock "Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." Danny Thomas "You will discover that you have two hands. One to help yourself, and the other is for helping others." Audrey Hepburn "Nobody has even measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." Zelda Fitzgerald "We have the ability to decide which thoughts to dwell on." David Denotaris "Without discipline, there's no life at all." Katherin Hepburn "Don't be afraid to give up the good, to go for the great." Kenny Rogers "Love yourself first and everything falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." Lucille Ball |
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." Confucius "Creativity takes guts and creativity takes courage." Brenda Johima "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln "One of the major reasons why people are not doing well, is because they keep trying |