The Wish I
Said That items below are used with the permission of the author Ralph Milton.
WISH I SAID THAT… 26
My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people
would stop dying.
Rodney Dangerfield via Margaret and Wally Wood
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to
their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacob Bronowski via Bob
Lewis
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
WISH I SAID THAT… 27
When we forget the obvious, the little joys, the meals
together, the birthday celebrations, the weeping together in time of pain, the
wonder of a sunset or of a daffodil peeping through the snow, we become less
human.
Madeleine L'Engle via Evelyn McLachlan
The chief duty of a statesman is to find out what God is up to, and then
to head in that direction.
William Gladstone
All dancing comes from an awareness that life does in
fact end.
William Saroyan
WISH I SAID THAT… 28
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything,
but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what
I can do."
Edward Everett Hale via Sandra Friesen
Nothing changes more constantly than the past, for the past that influences our
lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what [we] believe
happened."
Gerald White Johnson via Jim Taylor
Too many freaks. Not enough circuses.
source unknown
WISH I SAID THAT… 29
It is better to give than lend, and it costs just
about the same.
Evan Esar via Nancy
McClure-Long
Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.
We are prophets of a future not our own.
Oscar Romero via Jim Taylor
WISH I SAID THAT… 30
The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving
than nature.
Arthur D. Hlavaty
Just because you're on their side doesn't mean they're on your side.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be
enthusiastic about."
Charles Kingsley