Favorite Quote and It's Origin Please

cargal · Nov 18, 2001

" Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?"

-Jackson Browne

cargal · Nov 18, 2001

"Just when you think that you've been gyped, the bearded lady comes and does a double back flip." John Hiatt

Jenny P · Nov 18, 2001

The fortune cookie fortune I have taped above my computer screen is: "Love, time, and patience are your three great physicians." HHhhhhmmmmmmmmm, if I add "in bed" to that it could be VERY interesting-- with or without Viagra?

Some of my other favorite sayings are:

1. "Fast food isn't fast enough" from a "Women who do too much" calendar;

2. "God made time and He made plenty of it" an old Irish proverb; and

3. "Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify." Thoreau

rninformatics, DNP, RN · Nov 18, 2001

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."

-- Vernon Law

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."

-- Malcolm X

donmurray · Nov 18, 2001

"Take two buckets, one full, marked "luck" one empty, marked "experience". Try to fill the second one before you empty out the first."

Introduction by my old motorcycle riding instructor.

TracyB,RN, RN · Nov 18, 2001

I learned this one from my dear Dad, as a teen, when I often "wished" I had this or that . . .

"Wish in your left hand, s*** in your right hand. See which one fills up faster."

KatWright · Nov 20, 2001

I used to procastinate

now I practice avoidance

:D :D :D :D

kat

Andy S., BSN, RN · Nov 20, 2001

This is my all time fav!

"He who stands on toilet is also high on pot!"

So I am not the intellectual, but it suits me! Life is too serious on it's own. LOL

Later

Andy

bungies · Dec 3, 2001

I found a few in a quotes book that have stayed with me for the last 15 years or so:

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there

People are unhappy because they build walls, not bridges.

I'm not sure of the origins of these (I don't have the book any more) but I try to use them.

BadBird, BSN, RN · Dec 3, 2001

Some Gene Pools need a filter!!! I don't remember where I read this but I love it.

Kimbryn · Dec 3, 2001

One of my favorites is by Garth Brooks...or at least that's where I heard it first.

You aren't rich until you have what money can't buy.

ALISHAJO · Dec 3, 2001

Just had a great quote from one of my ER patients, (who happens to be a nurse)

" If you are going to be dumb, then you got to be tough"

Jo Beth

I wish several of our frequent flyers had learned this!!!!

Lish