Quote Originally Posted by Karen
I have lots of ones I like, but this is one of my real favorites:

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain
While we are on Mark Twain,

here is my favorite all time quote which is also by him!!! And Oh so true...

"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years".