Category: Grandpaisms

  • “He was born, lived, suffered & died for us and I know it!” — Grandpa Thomas (Gordon Monson Thomas) Christmas 2010  

  • “Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it.” — David Starr Jordan

  •   “I love this quote… “To the world you may be just one person… “But to one person you may be the world.”

  • “Nothing is every lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, cost nothing, and conveys much.” — Erastus Wiman

  • “Sympathizers are spectators; Empathizers wear game shoes.” — John Eyberg

  • “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” — Hellen Keller

  • “If you have made mistakes. . . there is always another chance for you. . . you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is no the falling down, but the staying down.” — Mary Pickford (1893 – 1979) Canadian Actress Printed January 15, 2013

  • “Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood — the virtues that made America.” — Theodore Roosevelt

  • “This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” — William Shakespeare

  • Thanksgiving — “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” — Senaca