Hotels, Mail and Soldiers

A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of twenty-five-watt bulbs in business.
Shelley Berman

Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.
Louis Rukeyser

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holster and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges: the old ones, grub.
George Bernard Shaw

Better Than Gold
Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.
Zig Ziglar

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Dogs

I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl.
Penny Moser

Dachshund: A dog who wags his tail by remote control.
Anonymous

All dogs know all about the Twilight Barking. It is their way of keeping in touch with distant friends, passing on important news, enjoying good gossip.
Dodi Smith

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Nothing will be attempted if all possible obstacles must first be removed.
Samuel Johnson

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Cars

If you care at all what the inside of your car looks like, you might want to think again about becoming a father.
Jason Wilson

A pedestrian is a man who has two cars – one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children.
Robert Bradbury

My parents had two constant arguments while they were driving, over how fast my father was going or how much gas was left in the tank. My father had a standard defense for either of these. It was always, “That’s because you’re looking at it from an angle. If you were over here, you’d see.”
Jerry Seinfeld

Better Than Gold
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William Bennett

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Hospitality

The art of hospitality is to make guests feel at home when you wish they were.
Violet Smart

A husband’s job is to keep talking to unexpected guests at the front gate while his wife straightens out the living room.
Anonymous

Introduce yourselves, I can smell something burning.
Katherine Whitehorn, recommended greeting for hostesses who have forgotten guests’ names

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The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi

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Conversation

Beware of the conversationalist who adds “in other words.” He is merely starting afresh.
Christopher Morley

A bore is a person who can change the subject to his topic faster than you can change it back to yours.
Laurence Peter

Please don’t talk while I am interrupting.
Todd Rockefeller

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Those feeble efforts of yours which were so imperfect that you could scarcely hope them to be successful, are all cooperating to produce a victory the shouts of which shall be heard all down the ages.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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Baseball

There are days when you know that God invented baseball to give us all a concept of eternity.
Michael Olesker

You know you’re getting bad when your wife takes you aside and tries to change your batting stance. And you take her advice.
Thomas Boswell

Baseball is something of a ballet, the trouble is that the music is substandard – they use pretty much the same score at the hockey rink – and the performers often spit tobacco juice all over the place.
Dave Shiflett

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You will never really be sure you have aimed high enough until you have suffered a failure.
Robert Schuller

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Work

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
Edmund Brown

God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind I will never die.
Anonymous

Better Than Gold
If you don’t have obstacles, it probably means you’re not setting your goals high enough.
Derek Jeter

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