Five more quotes

1. Oh that I could go, yet stay. Have tomorrow, keep today. Cherish, hold my yesterday. My yesterday, now treasured dear, was once tomorrow, seen with fear. --Kimber Ricks.

2. You cannot run from weakness. You must sometime either fight it out or perish, and if that be so...why not now, and where you stand? --Robert Louis Stevenson

3. It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain a harmonious conception of memory. --F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. This life is a test, it is only a test. If it were not a test, we would have been given instruction on where to go and what to do. -- via Jenny

5. The advantage of a classical education is it enables you to despise the wealth it prevents you from achieving. --Russel Green

Tuesday quotes

1. Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is, most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most marriages take a high degree of toleration, most jobs are more often boring than otherwise.

Life is a lot like an old time rail journey...delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts interspersed only occaionally with beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride. --Jenkins Lloyd Jones

2. But remember, young man...you are not the first person who has ever been alone and alone...--F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. There is no terra firma. Eternal rest must be earned, sleep must be earned, dreams must be lived, and life must be dreamt. --Kurt Wolff

4. If you can't convince them, confuse them.  --Harry S. Truman

5. I would that my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me. --Tennyson