Posted by MaggieH (admin)
Oct 19, 2009 11:57 am

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• The one I remember the most is something my dad always used to say to me:
  
  "Work hard, play hard but don't get the two mixed up."

  Oct 19, 2009 1:03 pm
  by cresswga

• "Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."

  Oct 19, 2009 2:24 pm
  by snarkmeister

• My favorite expression, I use it all the time:
  
  You can't tell which way the train went by looking at its tracks.

  Oct 20, 2009 10:03 pm
  by Golem100

• We went to my Dad's all-school reunion sometime in the mid-'60s. There was a display of class mottos and this one for a 1920-something high school class made a real impression on me:
  
  "Don't grow a wishbone where your backbone should be."

  Oct 21, 2009 2:51 pm
  by marander

• Here's the one that @gretchenrubin mentioned to me that she heard: "if you're not sure whether to have kids, do; if you're not sure whether to go to law school, don't."
  
  

  Oct 21, 2009 9:45 pm
  by susandanziger (admin)

• Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainity is absurb. Voltaire

  Oct 25, 2009 11:22 am
  by dreamdust

• There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
  
  Hamlet V.ii.219-220

  Oct 25, 2009 2:40 pm
  by sonata58

• 'Don't look at others, make your own kind of life' - Keanu Reeves
  
  'The thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it...' - Johnny Depp

  Nov 28, 2009 10:43 am
  by GurpreetSihat

• "Where there's life, there's hope." I thought it was Anne Frank, but I've since seen it everywhere, so I'm not sure.

  Dec 7, 2009 7:10 pm
  by hellohello