Jacob Barkley:
CLASS OF 2004
Ft. Zumwalt North High SchoolClass of 2004
O'fallon, MO
Jacob's Story
Jacob is from Wentzville, Missouri. Jacob's schools include Ft. Zumwalt North High School. Jacob later attended University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Electrical Engineering) .
Music Jacob likes includes The Avett Brothers, Most Anything Will Do. TV shows Jacob likes include M*A*S*H, Repo Games, Wilfred.
One of Jacob's favorite quotes is:""Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
~Marcus Aurelius
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke
"Life is too important to be taken seriously." ~ Oscar Wilde
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be â Marcel Pagnol
"Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder." Thoreau
"I live in a world of fantasy, so keep your reality away from me. I see what I want, I want what I see & that is all okay with me."
- Itzah C. Kret
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
-Henry David Thoreau
I honestly think is is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. - George Burns
"We are here on earth to good for others. What the others are here for I do not know." ~W. H. Auden
Moderation in all things including moderation. To be truly moderate, you must be extreme in some things.
-Valerie Whitcomb
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence Peter
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves.
Freidrich Nietzsche
History, n. An account (mostly false), of events (mostly unimportant), which are brought about by rul...Expand for more
ers (mostly knaves) and soldiers (mostly fools).
Ambrose Bierce
Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else.
Will Rogers
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlois
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill
Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.
- Otto von Bismark
The harder it is; The stronger the friendship. Why do you think the POWs are always having reunions.
-Peggy Hill, King of the Hill
Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out. - E. Joseph Cossman
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. - Pythagoras
The person who is not hungry says that the coconut has a hard shell.
"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you." -- Francis Roberts
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he or she gets to know something."
-- Wilson Mizner
I'll integrate my infinitely long line charge over her Gaussian surfcae.
--Woody & Sloppy
We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur. - Al Gore
"Happiness is like peeing your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel its warmth."
Better to regret what you do than regret what you don't.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. -- Dave Barry
To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. -- Samuel Butler
âI know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.â --Robert McCloskey
The feeling of being âokayâ does not imply that the person has risen above all his faults and emotional problems. It merely implies that he refuses to be paralyzed by them
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." -Victoria Holt
"Soul mates aren't perfect people. They can come into your life and provide polar emotional experiences from intense love to intense pain. Growth comes from both. And a soul mate helps you grow. It isn't just "...and they lived happily ever after" but "...and they lived!"
- Lori Chidori Phillips
A girl in a Bikini is like having a loaded pistol on the table-there's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
- Garrison Keillor".
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