The Wish I
Said That items below are used with the permission of the author Ralph Milton.
WISH I SAID THAT… 21
Thus the task is not so much to see what no one yet
has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody
sees.
Arthur Schopenhauer via
You see, our fingers are circumcised, which gives them a very good dexterity,
you know, particularly in the pinky.
Itzhak Perlman, responding to a
comment that so many great violinists are Jewish.
Virtue is a seed that grows through grace when we act upon it.
Source unknown
WISH I SAID THAT… 22
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which
it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo via Arthur Kaltenborn
What the world really needs is more love and less paper
work.
Pearl Bailey
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
WISH I SAID THAT… 23
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure
for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker via Cliff Boldt
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson via Clayton McWhirter
To do great and important tasks, two things are necessary: a plan and
not quite enough time.
Author unknown via Evelyn McLachlan
WISH I SAID THAT… 24
On getting a new computer system: "It's like
getting gored by a bull, in slow motion."
Jan Karon via Evelyn McLachlan
The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort
and convenience, but where they stand in times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr. via Clayton McWhirter
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of
a misprint.
Mark Twain via Margaret and Wally Wood
WISH I SAID THAT… 25
We have always needed old people to keep things from
going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth
has fire and age has light and we need both.
Vance Havner via Evelyn McLachlan
I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace. But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings via Nancy McClure-Long
Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
Victor Borge via Margaret and
Wally Wood