Often on Fridays I will post a favorite quote. I wanted to show you some of my quote collection, that's right, a collection. Like some folks collect stamps, or seashells, I collect quotes. This has been going on for twenty-some years. I believe it started back in the early 90's whilst working in Missouri. We had a certain computer system that we logged into each morning, and after logging in a quote popped up will the system booted. I started writing down the good ones ("If time heals all wounds, why don't belly buttons fill in?") and started a "Quote" file. Once the file was started then I began to collect quotes from all kinds of places, books I was reading, Chinese Fortune Cookies, Billboards, TV & Radio shows. The supply was endless.
Some I collected because they were just funny, many because they made me think. I think it's good to think. Don't you think?
A little taste from the Quote File:
"Diplomacy: The art of saying 'Nice Doggie' until you can find a rock."
"As long as your eyes leak you head will not swell."
"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be called research!"
"Experience: What you receive just after you needed it."
"It is always the novice that exaggerates." - C.S. Lewis
"It is a good thing for an educated man to read books of quotations." - Winston Churchill
Litera Scripta Manet - The Written Word Endues
Chuck
I LOVE quotes. I turn things I hear preachers preach into quotes. I buy quote books. I put them into notes in my phone. I take pictures of quotes so I won't forget them. I even have some quotes from famous rabbits..... There is a quote book I'm fixing to look up....and just might buy it. The Yale Book of Quotes by Shapiro. I also got Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett for a dime at a thrift store......
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