What's your favorite quote either made by someone in or about your Org???
 

Just wanted to hear what types of quotes really stick in your heart that have been made about your org?

lambda chi alpha
 

when speaking on why our ritual is the way it is and how he wrote it, brother jack mason said:

"the first question is, what is the highest aim of a college fraternity? the answer is-i think- to have men of sterling character, who are efficient workes along all lines of human activity; not students with big all around sympathies, who can deliever the goods in whatever activity they take up. In other words we have to preach two doctrines, the doctrine of work and the doctrine of character; or, if you wish to join the two, the doctrine of mighty energy working toward a high ideal. nothing else counts. it makes no difference of how pleasant a chap he is, if he can't do good sincere work he's not good, and we don't want him for a brother. the people we do take for brothers we want to encourage along these lines if we can."

the meaning of Alpha Sigma Phi's nickname
 

THE OLD GAL
by Alfred Dewey Follett

I almost hope that you will be shocked when I tell you that the first time I heard the expression "The Old Gal" was 41 years ago, in October of 1872. I like those words because they are feminine. I am a little weak on the women myself. Femininity is the symbol, the concrete expression of love and creation, and creation that is of any value comes only through love. The action of every man requiring energy and endurance comes from love of somebody or something, and the highest of all love is that of the mother because it is the most unselfish. The creation of the mother is what binds her to the child. It is undoubtedly that you love not those who do things for you, but those for whom you do things. Love is begotten of unselfish sacrifice, and you will never get into the proper attitude toward Alpha Sigma Phi until you learn the one great truth that it is not what you get out of it but what you put into it that makes it dear to you.

"The Old Gal" may at first blush seem to be a slang phrase. But slang is in a large degree the language of the heart. If I hear a man speak of his father as "father" I think he respects him, but when I hear him call his father "daddy", I know he loves him. Such terms are the spontaneous language of the heart, and as such "The Old Gal" expresses the affectionate attitude of every Sig to his fraternity. The most divine thing on this earth is unselfish love. It is the spark which connects us to the divine. This expression, "The Old Gal," means that the ideal of Alpha Sigma Phi is the unselfish love that a mother has for her offspring.

For a long time the Sigs of Marietta were orphans and without brothers or sisters. We were a little lonely, and we sincerely welcomed and took to our hearts the two men who came to us at Marietta and asked us to reconstruct and revivify Alpha Sigma Phi at Yale. I wish here to pay tribute to two brothers who are entitled to one. There are many good Sigs who have done good work, but Brother Musgrave and Brother Waterbury are the Peter and Paul of Alpha Sigma Phi. At Marietta from 1863 to 1907, Delta Chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi kept the faith for the fraternity. The flame having burned out at New Haven, the little torch way out there in Ohio burned brightly, and as a result this sturdy youngster had the miracle performed of re-entering the mother's womb and being re-born.

An old English bishop once said "Secrecy is the chastity of friendship." It is the white bridal veil, the veil that indicates maidenhood, virtue and purity. It is the wall of the home that shrouds the intimacies of the family. It is the same relation that the secrecy of the fraternity bears to its members. It is the emblem of chastity, and it therefore should be kept pure and unsullied.

From the time I entered Alpha Sigma Phi the Sig prayer meeting has existed. I believe there are young Sigs here present who have heard the old men tell how much they owed to the old Sig prayer meetings. These were not occasions for love fests nor for third degree sessions but they were occasions when a brother who had committed an offense, or was in danger of committing an error, was talked to and advised by his fraternity brothers. Any offense committed by a brother degrades him and degrades his fraternity. I think I have never heard such appeals to the better side of man as I have heard in those "prayer meetings." I trust we may have throughout the length and breadth of the land where Sig chapters are located, a "Sig prayer meeting" when it is necessary. They are honest attempts to guide the footsteps of a brother back into the path from which he has strayed.

If I were a sculptor I would take a block of the whitest marble and carve it into the from of a beautiful woman. Her brow should be high to denote her intellect, and wide to show her calm serenity of spirit. Her ears should be small to show her refinement, her eyes deep-set and clear to show her penetration; her nostrils should be widely expanding to show her alertness to every condition about her; her lips should be full to show her love; her well-founded breasts should show the power to sustain; her broad hips should show her power of reproduction; and her arms outstretched in an attitude of friendliness and welcome.

I would place that carved figure under a white canopy, the emblem of chastity and secrecy, and upon the pedestal of the temple thus created I would carve the letters Alpha Sigma Phi. Into this temple I would enter and raise my arms in token of praise and adoration, and before that statue I would bow my head in token of my willingness to receive her instruction, and I would bend my knee in token of my unswerving loyalty and undying fealty.

I trust that if not the marble statue, at least the letters Alpha Sigma Phi, standing for the fraternity, will be a constant inspiration to you after you are out of and away from college. And as you come to address younger Sigs, as I am doing tonight, you will be glad and proud to say that to "The Old Gal" you owe in a great measure the good that you have been able to do.

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Alfred Dewey Follett (Delta (Marietta College) 1872) was the first Grand Senior President of Alpha Sigma Phi after its revival in 1907. He served from 1907 to 1909. He was elected Grand Marshal at the 1913 Convention in New York City, where he delivered the above address. Brother Follett was a member of the United States Congress, as well as an outstanding lawyer, banker and executive in Marietta, Ohio. He has since entered Omega Chapter, but his words serve as inspiration to every member of Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity.

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
- Calvin Coolidge (Amherst 1895)
President of the United States 1924-29

Forgot to post my own...
 

My first quote can be seen in my signature at the end of this post so look at that...

the other one is like this

Again, the Beta is distinguishable and distinguished from all other kinds of fraternity men whatsoever by just a little warmer and stronger, just a little tenderer and more eduring fraternity feeling than any of them can attain to. For it was always so.

I do not in the least know how it happened nor why it persisted after it happened, but a long time ago there came in to Beta Theta Pi a fraternity spirit that was, and is, and apparently will continue to be, unique. We know it, who are inside and they see and record it who are outside the Beta pale.

Whether young or old, in college or out, from the small school or the great university, we are conscious of a heritage of genuine fraternalism that has not been vouchsafed in like measure --I say it deliberately -- to any other of the great college fraternities.

And we cannot doubt that in this, as in other respects, our 'future will copy fair the past,' and that in the world of fifty years from now, as in that of years ago -- as in that that lies around us today -- the first mark of a Beta will be his Beta Spirit

Willis O. Robb, Ohio Wesleyan 1879

Read my sig

I have a lot of favorites, including the one in my GC sig. The following is my favorite, and truly sums up Alpha Omicron Pi.

"One motto, one badge, one bond, and singleness of heart."


Christin

"It's a great life is you can Teke it."
 

"It's a great life is you can Teke it."

"Why not, my Brothers, since we of today live and cherish the principles of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, throw such a halo around those principles that they may be handed down as a precious heirloom to ages yet unborn? Why not put our apples of gold in pictures of silver? May we not rest contentedly until the Star and Crescent is the pride of every college and university in the land!"
-- Stephen Alonzo Jackson, the Golden Hearted Virginian, 1878.

one of our girls closed her speech at an informal pref night with this: "I learned that Alpha Phi doesnt promise to make life easy, but it does make it memorable."

well, we were having a sisterhood night and there was a bunch of new girls there for the event. they asked me to talk about my life as far as sorority. and the last thing i said was a quote from willy wonka. . .


Dont forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. . .he lived happily ever after.


everyone was snifling when it was over.





PHI SIGMA SIGMA. . .because sometimes you want to go where EVERYBODY knows your name. . .

I love this thread because we are working on our scrapbook and everyone has to come up with a saying that they want on thier personal page and I have not come up with mine yet.
For AST we always say "anchored for life" but myfavorite one is not just for my sorority--
"I am smiling because you are my sister, I am lauging because there is nothing you can do about it"
and
"God doesn't give sororities sisters he doesn't want them to use" (okay so I changed that one a little).

I like the one in my signature, one of my brothers adapted it from somewhere, not really sure where. The other is from one of our founder Hagues' benediction the night of our founding.
"Let us...keep on growing till our beloved Fraternity shall become full grown...having the strength to help and protect its members, wisdom to guide them to helpful and good things as to college life, and love so warm that its members shall feel its kindly glow, that brotherly love may indeed be a reality and not an idea."

Alpha Sigma Alpha
Aspire, Seek, Attain (our open letter motto)


Failure is an "F" word

My Favorite
 

My favorite quote about our house comes from our dear friends at Sigma Chi. "Extreme". Thats it.

you guys rock
-A freshman at a party back in 98

"If you're not mixing with us, you're not mixing with anyone important."

-my chapter sister Kim to a Sigma Chi

Nothing can take the place of persistence ....

Calvin Coolidge (US President and FIJI)

The Hague quote is a good one PSK 480

My favorite quote is the source of the "Hills and a Star"

"Phi Sigma Kappa offers you not idle meadows and indolent shores, she offers you hills and a star." Frank Prentice Rand, Chi '12, Former Signet Editor

I also liked the piece put together to mark the passing of "Big Chief" Barrett in 1918

To The Big Chief
And now, farewell! For many moons your strong
And stalwart form has lead our fearless band
By pleasant trails about this mighty land,
Your voice lent power to our tribal song.
Around the council fire, when some few
Spake whirling words, you smoked and held your peace;
But when our tongues would in confusion cease,
In quiet tones you told us what to do.

And now fate safely to that hunting-ground
Where bold and faithful spirits draw the bow,
And weary not, nor suffer winter's chill;
And we will chant in triumph by your mound,
And make a grateful vow, and proudly go
To valiant deeds- your braves, Great Chieftain , still.

(from "All the Phi Sigs" page 79)

The best quote anyone from our chapter ever made ( I think it sums it all up)

"Delta Phi Sigma, Phi Sigma Epsilon, Phi Sigma Kappa. Thank God!"

and the most memorable quote I ever made (and have never lived down to this day)
"Ingrid Bergman was not a chubby thespian." (1988)

Its a long story involving a pony keg of long island iced teas, the lovely ladies of Kappa Alpha Theta, and a homeless guy on a bicycle with a great big marajuana leaf belt buckle.



:D

one of my favorites, though not for me, for Sigma Sigma Sigma, is from Lousia May Alcott -> I'm not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Another Alcott quote - to help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

random - i came to college to find my husband, i'm leaving college having found my bridesmaids!

dz - behold the turtle, for he only makes progress when he sticks his neck out

random - wearing the same badge doesn't make you my sister, but being my sister lets you wear my badge

dz - I LOVE OUR CREED - i love when during the process of a normal day i can find a way to practice the creed in real life, and i'm the only one who knows!


eh, that's all for now

One of our executive directors coined a phrase that imparts a theme amoung GLOs

"....not for college days alone.."

See my sig. This comes from a letter to the Brotherhood from Ossian E. Mills, Father of Sinfonia and Honorary Grand Supreme President for Life, printed in the 1912 FMA Annual.

Edited to add:
Well, it used to be in my sig, until I scaled down. This is it:

This it is to be a man of the highest type.
To be and not seem;
to do and not simply to talk;
to have the right ideal, the true motive
and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.
So let it be for SINFONIA.

ttt
 

"If God has created a better man than an Alpha man, I do not know where he is."

Mona Humpries Bailey, Past National President of Delta Sigma Theta

(Her blood Brother is an Alpha Phi Alpha)

Bluto: What?! Over? Did you say over? NOTHING is over until WE
decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
HELL, NO!

I love the one in my signature.

It's actually funny this thread came up, becasue I was thinking of a qote I heard once, just this morning. I think it goes something like:

Sometimes the best place to go is the place where you don't have to be anyone else

I realize it could be for anyone, but it really hits home for our chapter.

And also: A sister is one who will teach you the song in your heart, when you have forgotten how to sing.

And then, I just have to add the words of the very sage Aerosmith:

I want to be your lover
I wanna wrap you in rubber
As pink as the sheets that we lay on
Pink it's my favorite crayon, yeah

One of my many favorites from one of our founders:

"I am not here as a preacher, nor do I ask to be accepted as a philosopher, but I am here as an older brother to beg you that you frame your lives upon a foundation more secure than sand. There is a rock that affords a safe anchorage. He is the Rock of Ages." - Otis Allen Glazebrook, Address to Congress, May 1925

Jason

Minna Goldsmith Mahler*, Eva Effron Robin*, Ida Bienstock Landau*, Sylvia Steierman Cohn* and Dorothy Cohen Schwartzman*, five young law students saw Delta Phi Epsilon as a society to "promote good fellowship among the women students among the various colleges in the country...to create a secret society composed of these women based upon their good moral character, regardless of nationality or creed...to have distinct chapters at various colleges..." with the motto Esse Quam Videri: to be rather than to seem to be. (* deceased)

Minna Goldsmith Mahler, a founder of Delta Phi Epsilon, wrote this to celebrate the 50th Anniversary in 1967.

"I appreciate the opportunity to join with you in marking the 50th Anniversary of Delta Phi Epsilon. It is a privilege given to us, the founders of this sorority, to watch its growth and development and see our principles extend unto generations to come.
All of us have a continuous responsibility long after the 50th year to face problems which will always be with us. Although we are united by the principles of our charter we are not characterized by sameness, but by human diversity which is healthful. Resolving the tensions of ordinary living, working together with each other, and with our neighbors of differing opinions; working towards a system where men and nations can ultimately live together in peace on this troubled planet, needs intelligent understanding and enlightenment.
This seed of enlightened understanding is implanted in our formative years at school and it grows and flourishes in sorority relationship. I am proud to have witnessed the vitality of the life-tree of Delta Phi Epsilon, which has spread its many strong branches and will continue to be a dynamic force through the dedication of our sorors, and an influence for the betterment of mankind through its teachings."

"If Sig Tau were a bowl of porridge, I'd dip my balls in it" - a founding father at his last active meeting

Favorite quote
 

An AOII is not someone that you become; it is who you have always been.
Silver

First the serious one -

"I'm really sorry that I joined (name of sorority) before learning about Theta. Had I known how cool the Thetas are, I totally woud have rushed them."

And now the not so serious one -

"What's a Theta Pi Gamma dinner without garlic bread?"

This was on our slide show this year and I had to leave the room so I wouldn't cry in front of the PNM's(I am an advisor) but it just really struck a cord with me.....

An AOTT sister is the one who will pick you up when you are down but if you can't get up, she will be the one to lay down beside you till you can


I love it--tearing up right now!

Talk Doesn't Cook Rice
 

I first read those words from my wonderful sister, OTW Sandy. I'm pretty sure she said she didn't write them first, but what the heck!;) :D

I have it on my board at work. Of course..most times I have to explain it, lol. :D

To me, it means whether it's Alpha Gamma Delta or other parts of my life. if I (we) don't do something about it, it won't get done.

Soo...Just Do It! (Okay...I KNOW that wasn't Sandy's original, lol):D