The Wheeler Family

So as many of you know I work at the Iowa City domestic violence shelter. Yesterday I had a very funny experience and Becca has requested that I share it with my (many?) viewers. Sooo… here goes.

So, one of our directors made up these motivational posters of famous quotes and put them all over the shelter for both staff and clients to read and appreciate. As I was sitting in the office typing up the weekly newsletter, one of the quotes struck me and made me laugh right out loud. I directed the rest of the office to read the quote and see what they thought. This too was met with lots of laughter. Finally we called the director in question and asked her to come up to the front office, when she got up there we asked her where she got the quote and she admitted that she had gone to a conference where the speaker had posted motivational quotes and she liked them so she got copies to hang around the shelter.

What is the quote you ask???

“There is no such thing as try. You either do it; or you don’t.” Yoda

So we in the front office thought that it would be an enormously funny to take famous quotes and just paraphrase them. So last night Chris and I worked on just a few…. Enjoy!

Don’t ask your country questions, ask your country to ask you questions. (Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country)

Success is 10% having a good idea and 90% sweat. (Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.)

Go to sleep before it gets too late and get up by dawn and you can be smart, skinny, and rich. (Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.)

Better to shut up and be thought stupid rather than talk and make it painfully obvious. (Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.)

If at first you mess it up do it again and then again at least one more time. (If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.)

Job finished. (Mission accomplished.)

I couldn’t not tell the truth if you paid me too. (I cannot tell a lie.)