funny quotes about attitude

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~Tehyi Hsieh



If food is your best friend, it's also your worst enemy. ~Edward "Grandpa" Jones, 1978



There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. ~Colette



Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



See, the human mind is kind of like... a pinata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the pinata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience. ~Jane Wagner



I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, "Who's the dyke in the dress?" ~Karen Ripley



All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ~Albert Einstein



I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Today's world is one in which the age-old risks of humankind - the drought, floods, communicable diseases - are less of a problem than ever before. They have been replaced by risks of humanity's own making - the unintended side-effects of beneficial technologies and the intended effects of the technologies of war. Society must hope that the world's ability to assess and manage risks will keep pace with its ability to create them. ~J. Clarence Davies, quoted in Conservation Foundation, State of the Environment: An Assessment at Mid-Decade, 1984



Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. ~Tiger Woods



Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can't play it. ~Ted Ray, Golf - My Slice of Life, 1972



It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823



If only closed minds came with closed mouths. ~As seen on a button at evolvefish.com



Love is grand; divorce a hundred grand. ~Author Unknown



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



A healthy mind has an easy breath. ~Author Unknown



Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. ~Author Unknown



A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. ~Lord John Russell



Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. ~Goethe