Perhaps we need a "WORDS TO LIVE BY " thread

[sandhiller]

[Steve C.]

1 hour ago, sandhiller said:

Boy, that hits the nail on the head.

[mike newman]

....think where   man's glory begins and ends

....and say my glory was I  had such friends...

William   Butler    Yeats

[just Dave]

When you argue with a fool, a bystander will not be able to tell which one is the fool.

[Steve C.]

3 minutes ago, just Dave said:

When you argue with a fool, a bystander will not be able to tell which one is the fool.

Excellent.

[sandhiller]

[sandhiller]

[mikem]

Text of the prayer Eleanor Roosevelt carried in her wallet until the day she died:

"Dear Lord, lest I continue in my complacent ways, help me to remember that somewhere someone died for me today. And if there be war, help me to remember to ask, "Am I worth dying for?"

 

Can any of us can answer in the affirmative?  

 

 

Mike

[sandhiller]

[augercreek]

On 1/22/2023 at 11:01 PM, mikem said:

Text of the prayer Eleanor Roosevelt carried in her wallet until the day she died:

"Dear Lord, lest I continue in my complacent ways, help me to remember that somewhere someone died for me today. And if there be war, help me to remember to ask, "Am I worth dying for?"

 

Can any of us can answer in the affirmative?  

 

 

Mike

We all must be worth dying for because God gave His Son to die for us ALL!!!!!

[lorenzo]

[hardtail]

Buy gold and take possession of it

[sandhiller]

[mike newman]

On 1/23/2023 at 6:01 PM, mikem said:

Text of the prayer Eleanor Roosevelt carried in her wallet until the day she died:

"Dear Lord, lest I continue in my complacent ways, help me to remember that somewhere someone died for me today. And if there be war, help me to remember to ask, "Am I worth dying for?"

 

Can any of us can answer in the affirmative?  

 

 

Mike

..to dodge the question  above...but to comment on Eleanor  Roosevelt  's quotes.... I am a great admirer of her quote re  loved ones ..........''leaving foot prints  on (my)   heart.."

I reckon that is really something

Mike

[TN Hillbilly]

12 hours ago, sandhiller said:

It is said that that is the difference between an amateur and a professional.  The amateur practices until they get it right.  The professional, until they CANT get it wrong. 

[mike newman]

....Don't want to die alone ??

...become a bus driver...!!

Mike

[Ian Beale]

On 1/22/2023 at 5:55 AM, sandhiller said:

Rudyard Kipling "Tomlinson"

https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_tomlinson.htm

Long, conclusion is

"

Go back to Earth with a lip unsealed - go back with an open eye,
And carry my word to the Sons of Men or ever ye come to die:
That the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one -
And. . .the God that you took from a printed book be with you, Tomlinson!"

[sandhiller]

[lorenzo]

This one is par for the course lately.

[TN Hillbilly]

56 minutes ago, lorenzo said:

This one is par for the course lately.

Agreed.

In that same vein - 

You can tell all you need to know about a man's character by what he says about others.

[Farmall Doctor]

A father should not live close enough to see the smoke from his son’s chimney. 
 

[Ian Beale]

3 hours ago, Farmall Doctor said:

A father should not live close enough to see the smoke from his son’s chimney. 
 

For years I've been telling people that if the houses are closer than four miles apart it is overpopulated!

[hillman]

[yellowrosefarm]

[mike newman]

....'''  if  you lose your pluck....you lose  the most there is  in you........all you've got to live with..."

 

A   quote from an 80 yr old Grandma of 22    kids.....forced to leave her Oklahoma farm  during the Great Depression..1936...

Mike