Flute Quotes

Nature hates calculators.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot

if you don't put a few nickels in the machine

Flip Wilson

Deep into that darkness peering,

long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting,

dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life

to be happy—it’s all that matters.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery,

it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

The value of a dollar is social,

as it is created by society.

The most luxurious possession,

the richest treasure anybody has,

is his personal dignity.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Success is a mindset,

not a number.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

We seldom realize,

for example,

that our most private thoughts

and emotions are not actually our own.

Self knowledge involves relationship.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action

with another person.

If I had been white with the things I did,

they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

I am grateful for

what I am and have.

My thanksgiving is perpetual

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Blessed are the young,

for they shall inherit the national debt.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.

The charm of fishing is that

it is the pursuit of what is

elusive but attainable

a perpetual series of

occasions for hope.

Always forgive your enemies;

nothing annoys them so much.