Category: Grandpaisms

  • “Be short on pessimism and long on optimism.” — David McCullough, Pulitzer Prise Award Recipient, Conference Center, April 29, 2010

  •   “A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.”

  • ‘We are fallible. We certainly haven’t attained perfection. But we can strive for it, and the virtue is in the striving” — Carlos T. Romulo

  • “The only failure is not knowing how to be happy.” – Celine Dion

  • “People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question!” — Paul Simon (and Grandpa)

  • You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. — Dale […]

  • There are no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart. — Apocrypha

  • The chief function of your body is to carry your brain around — Thomas Edison

  • As long as a horse is pulling, he never kicks.

  • When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy” — Samuel Goldwyn