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A Bit of Wisdom from Jack Benny |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 02/14/2024 01:25 PM
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Los Angeles, CA...Entertainer Jack Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky, February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974.
"My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never."
"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."
"It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause."
"If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
"Modesty is my best quality." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Thomas Paine on His Birthday |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 02/09/2024 11:11 AM
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New York, NY...Thomas Paine February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809. Thomas Paine was born on this day in 1737 in Thetford, England. His most impactful work was the tract Common Sense. In many ways it codified the grievances the Colonies had with the Crown and many historians credit it as the match that lit the flame of the American Revolution. He was also controversial even in his own lifetime. The Thomas Paine that wrote Common Sense was universally loved and revered. The Thomas Paine that in later life seemed to let his fame go to his head a bit was at times almost a different person. As history looks back on all our lives we can only hope we are remembered for the positive and impactful times in our lives and not for the other times. With that a few Bits of Wisdom from Paine are below...
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection."
"Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from William Tecumseh Sherman |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 02/08/2024 12:30 PM
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New York, NY...William Tecumseh Sherman February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891. American Soldier & General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."
"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now we stand by each other always."
"There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."
"War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."
"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."
"I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected."
"War is hell" |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Babe Ruth |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 02/06/2024 11:57 AM
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New York, NY...George Herman "Babe" Ruth, February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948. Homerun King, "The Bambino" & "The Sultan of Swat".
"I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun."
"Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading."
"I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run."
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."
"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Dwight L. Moody |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 02/05/2024 12:53 PM
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Chicago, IL...A Bit of Wisdom from Dwight L. Moody. Dwight L. Moody February 5, 1837 – December 26, 1899
"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine."
"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God."
"Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy."
"God never made a promise that was too good to be true."
"A good example is far better than a good precept." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Horace Greeley |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 02/03/2024 09:54 AM
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New York, NY...Horace Greeley, February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872. American newspaper editor, publisher of New-York Tribune.
“Our country right or wrong is an evil motto – what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.”
“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”
“We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.”
“Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.”
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.”
“Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.”
“Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.”
“The way we do things is to begin.”
“Common sense is very uncommon.”
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A Bit of Wisdom from Zane Grey |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 01/31/2024 12:27 PM
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Altadena, CA...Pearl Zane Grey, January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939. American author of popular adventure novels and stories that glorified the West.
"Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself."
"I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me."
"Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply."
"Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things."
"I will see this game of life out to its bitter end."
"What is writing but an expression of my own life?"
"I need this wild life, this freedom."
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A Bit of Wisdom form Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 01/30/2024 11:01 AM
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Hyde Park, NY...A Few Bits of Wisdom from FDR. In looking at FDR's life whether you are a fan of him our not the man that was FDR after polio was a much better, tougher & wiser man than the one who had two strong legs. I venture to say that the pre-polio FDR would not have been our longest serving President.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945
"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting." ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made." ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country." ~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945 |
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A Bit of Wisdom from General Douglas MacArthur |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 01/26/2024 12:24 PM
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Washington, DC...General Douglas MacArthur, 26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964. American military leader from WW1 all to the Korean War. One bit of history people tend to forget is that the current constitution of Japan is known as the MacArthur Constitution because he wrote most of it.
"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
"You are remembered for the rules you break."
"In war there is no substitute for victory."
"Americans never quit." |
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A Bit of Wisdom from Robert Burns on His Birthday |
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Posted by: thepinetree on 01/25/2024 10:50 AM
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Dumfries, Scotland...Robert Burns, 25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796. Widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland.
"It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us."
"There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters."
"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"
"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."
"Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!"
"Dare to be honest and fear no labor."
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