Quotes 7/31/09

A vendor sent a quote to me once and I didn't care for it, so I one up'ed her with an old favorite:

If you know you have to swallow a frog, swallow it first thing in the morning. If there are two frogs, swallow the big one first.
-Mark Twain

So she wrote me back recently (I think just remind that she exists) and asked if I had any more quotes. As long as I was putting these together, I might as well share them with the world:

Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.
-Teddy Roosevelt
Courage is grace under pressure.
-Ernest Hemingway
Little minds have little worries. Big minds have no time for worries.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every Artist was once an amateur.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've been all over the world, and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
-Leonard Bernstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
-Albert Einstein
Hope is passion for what is possible.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Many young men die at age 25, but are not buried until they're 75.
-Benjamin Franklin

And here’s one just for fun:

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
-Anonymous