Quotes, Revisited (Or, "The Rerun")

Re-posted from an earlier date.  

Just a collection of quotes that I've recently been thinking about.  

• "May ye be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead" -- Old Irish blessing

• "It's not easy being green" - Kermit the Frog

• "If you're going through hell, keep going" - Sir Winston Churchill

• "We should do three things every day of our (lives)...laugh...think...and...have (our) emotions moved to tears. That's a heck of a day!" -- Jim Valvano (1946-1993)

• "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!', he chortled in his joy" - Lewis Carroll ("Jabberwocky")

• "It will soon pass, whatever it is" - Bobby McFerrin ("Don't Worry, Be Happy")

• "Always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise, they won't come to yours" - Yogi Berra

• "It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant.  It's just that they know so many things that aren't so" - President Ronald Reagan

• "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 ("Hamlet", Act 1, Scene III)

• "No one ever got anywhere by half-assing it" - My father

• "Be quick, but don't hurry" - John Wooden (1910-2010)

• "One good thing about music; when it hits you, you feel no pain" - Robert Nesta (Bob) Marley (1945-1981)

• "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds" - Bob Marley

• "To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose unto heaven" - Ecclesiastes 3:1 (quoted by "The Byrds' in 'Turn! Turn! Turn!")

• "If you want respect, give respect" - Me

• "Remember that somewhere, someone somehow has it worse off than you do" - Me

• "Don't ever be afraid to see what you see, believe what you believe, and say what needs to be said" - Me, with thanks to President Ronald Reagan

• "You can't always get what you want; but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need" - Mick Jagger & The Rolling Stones

• "Every man's heart one day beats its final beat; his lungs breathe their final breath. (And) if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others...then his spirit will be immortalized...by the memory of those who honor him, and make the running the man did live forever" - James Hellwig, AKA "The Ultimate Warrior/Warrior" (1959-2014) (1)

1 Author's note: Mr. Hellwig passed away on April 8, not quite twenty-four hours after making this speech.