Favorite Quotes

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I thought everyone would like to post their favorite quote!

One of mine is (hard to pick,because I have books of them!)

"If you're going to do something, you might as well do it right"

-- Melissa (cmnorris@1st.net), October 20, 2001

Answers

It's not quite a quote but close enough for me-"I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me."-Philippians 4:13

-- Micheale from SE Kansas (mbfrye@totelcsi.net), October 20, 2001.

Oh i love quotes and sayings, but i'd have to go with "Let your conversations be without covetouness; and be content with such things as ye have; for he hath said,I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." Hebrews 13:5 I think a something everyone fights with is thinking the grass is greener on the other side. But God promises to meet our needs, and thats something i need to remind myself a lot!

-- jillian (sweetunes483@yahoo.com), October 20, 2001.

"God doesn't call us to be successful. He calls us to be faithful." Mother Teresa

-- melina b. (goatgalmjb1@hotmail.com), October 20, 2001.

How is it we never have time to do something right yet we always have time to do it over?

-- Gary in Indiana (gk6854@aol.com), October 20, 2001.

How come I don't always follow this one?

"It's better to keep you mouth shut and have people think you're a food and to open it and remove all doubt."

Wishing you enough.

-- Trevilians (aka Dianne in Mass) (Trevilians@mediaone.net), October 20, 2001.



"Don't you wish you were me? I know I do!"

from Arthur Moore as Arthur.

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), October 20, 2001.


Duh... that was Dudly Moore!

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), October 20, 2001.

"If you are a mother, you don't need to worry about looking elsewhere for service for God. Motherhood is your sevice." --Elisabeth Elliot

-- Cathy N. (keeper8@attcanada.ca), October 20, 2001.

Choose your friends wisely, for if you lie down with dogs you will get up with fleas.

-- lesley (martchas@bellsouth.net), October 20, 2001.

Don't know where this came from, but here it is: "If you are content with little, enough is as good as a feast."

-- Jo (mamamia2kids@msn.com), October 20, 2001.


Joy comes in the morning, To thine ownself be true, and Timing is everything.

-- Cindy (S.E.IN) (atilrthehony@countrylife.net), October 20, 2001.

Our desire shouldn't be to GET WHAT WE WANT, but to WANT WHAT WE GET.

-- jillian (sweetunes483@yahoo.com), October 21, 2001.

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits"...Mark Twain

-- Polly (tigger@moultrie.com), October 23, 2001.

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