More Quotes
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana, "The Life of Reason: Reason in Society", 1906
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle. -- Arthur Rubinstein
Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. - Brendan Francis
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. - Phillips Brooks
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -- Booker T. Washington
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. -- David Starr Jordan
Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it. -- Randall "Tex" Cobb, boxer and actor
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -- Thomas Jefferson
When you love someone draw a circle around their name instead of a heart 'cause hearts can be broken but circles never end.
If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them? -- Bumper sticker
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. -- Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women", 1792
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
It is better to be on the ground wishing you were flying, than vice versa.
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
Matter cannot be created or destroyed; nor can it be returned without a receipt.
Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.
And some puns:
Man who arrives at party two hours late finds he has been beaten to the punch.
Man who falls in vat of molten optical glass makes spectacle of self.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -- William Feather
- If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, why don't we all waste time and have the time of our life? --Unknown
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." --Robert Wilensky
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -- George Bernard Shaw
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
- A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. -- Unknown
JEWISH WISDOM
Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call. Richard Lewis
My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada. David Steinberg
Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil! Golda Meir
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. Sam Levenson
Don't be humble; you are not that great. Golda Meir
I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks. Joe E. Lewis
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it. Oscar Levant
"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems".
"Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find."
"Volunteer--not so you can build your resume, but so you can build yourself."
"Always remember that you are unique--just like everybody else."
"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, you have time to do something about it."
"The greatest gift that you can give another person is your attention."
"Have a strong mind and a soft heart."
"Wisdom is only granted to those who find it themselves."
"Don't go through life--GROW through life."
"The only real failure in life is one not learned from."
"True courage is not the absence of fear; rather it is the taking of action in spite of the fear."
"Our mind is like a parachute. It only works when it is open."
"Those who say it cannot be done should get the hell out of the way of those who are doing it."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your own consent."
"Ignore other people's ignorance so that you may discover your own wisdom."
"Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness."
"Contrary to popular belief, it is not the first impression that is most important. It's the 1 million and first impressions that count. Your ability to have integrity in every area of life is invaluable."
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference". -- Robert Frost
There are three types of people - the will's the won'ts and the can'ts. The will's accomplish everything, the won'ts won't do anything and the can'ts will not try anything.
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"A heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." -- Charles Dickens, "Our Mutual Friend", 1864
"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." --Al Capone
"A lot of people wonder how you know if you're really in love. Just ask yourself this one question: "Would I mind being destroyed financially by this person?" --Ronnie Shakes
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." --Henry Kissinger
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." --Martin Luther King, Jr.
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself. --F. Hawes
"If you are experiencing resistance, you must exert some persistence in order to improve your existence." --Malcolm X. Trotter
"The grass is always greener on the other side, until you jump the fence and see the weeds up close." --Albert Grashuis
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."
"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose." --Darrin Weinberg
Great spirits have always encountered violent=20 pposition from mediocre minds."=20 "Life is a tragedy for those who feel; and a comedy for those who think." - Chinese Proverb
"The Oxen may be slow but the Earth is patient." - Chinese Proverb
"The palest ink is better than the sharpest memory." - Chinese Proverb
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it." - Chinese Proverb
"If there is light in the soul, there is beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there is harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world." - Chinese Proverb
It teaches the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid. To be proud and unbowed in defeat yet humble and gentle in victory. And to master ourselves before we attempt to master others. And to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep. And to give the predominance of courage over timidity. - General Douglas MacArthur, on the virtues of competitive athletics.
"Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock'n'roll is becoming. It's your parents' music." --Neil Young
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions." - Claude Levi-Strauss
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." --Virginia Woolfe
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." --Harriet Woods
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing = positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." --Faith Whittlesey "The universe is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering." - Chinese Proverb
"He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves." - Chinese Proverb
"Judge not the horse by his saddle. - Chinese Proverb
"If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else" - Chinese Proverb
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." - Vince Lombardi
If a= man watched three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. -Erma Bombeck
There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?" --Danny DeVito, The War of the Roses
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." --Albert Schweitzer
No man is ever completly worthless. He can at least be used as a bad example!
"I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages." - Nell Carter
"I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection." - Richard Lewis
"If it weren't for pickpockets I'd have no sex life at all." - Rodney Dangerfield
"It's been so long since I made love I can't even remember who gets tied up." - Joan Rivers
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." - Robert H. Schuller
"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." - Robert Ingersoll
Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it." --Danny, American History X
"If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's okay.= But you've got to shoot for something." - Robert Townsend
"You cannot take charge of the present if you are busy reliving the setbacks of the past." - Newman & Berkowitz
"The longer the walk, the farther you come" - Metallica
"Life is like a piano ... What you get out of it depends on how you play it." - Anonymous
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. --Thomas Carlyle
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov
People see God every day. They just don't recognize him. -Pearl Bailey
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell
The minute you start talking about what you are going to do if you lose, you have lost." --George Schultz
That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.
"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, = always makes you less than you are." - Malcolm Forbes
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon.= Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to." --Franklin P. Jones
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Luck: when preparation and opportunity meet." --Pierre Trudeau
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have." --Harry Emerson Fosdick
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them.= A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. -- Norman Vincent Peale
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." - George Bernard Shaw
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while." - Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) =1818-1885
"Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family." - Homer Simpson
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns
"There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over." - David Nichols
"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well." - H. T. Leslie
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen." - Mark Twain
"When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!" - Homer Simpson
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside." --Author Unknown
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, World Future Society Convention, 1977
Sports Quotes
- Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh. "I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."
- Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann 1996. *"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach. *"You guys line up alphabetically by height."
- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach. *"You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle."
- Clemson recruit Ray Forsythe, who was ineligible as a freshman because of academic requirements. *"I play football. I'm not trying to be a professor. The tests don't seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven't been through in school."
- Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King. "Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."
- Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawk's left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker. *"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my #%@# clothes."
- Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece. "I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."
- Shaquille O'Neal, on his lack of championship wins. *"I've won at every level, except college and pro."
- Lou Duva, Veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota. "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."
- 1992- Pat Williams, Orlando Magic general manager, on his team's 7-27 record. "We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play."
- 1982 - Chuck Nevitt , North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice. *"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."
- 1981 - Tommy Lasorda, Dodger manager, when asked what terms Mexican-born pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela might settle for in his upcoming contract negotiations. *"He wants Texas back."
- 1991 -Steve Spurrier, Florida football coach, telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books. "But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet."
- 1986 - Jim Finks, New Orleans Saints G.M., when asked after a loss what he thought of the refs. "I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating."
- 1996 - Lincoln Kennedy, Oakland Raider's tackle, on his decision not to vote. "I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot."
- 1987 - Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D. "Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject."
There is no pleasure in life so great as doing what others say you can't." - fortune cookie (submitted by "Sleepy")
"The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." - Unknown (submitted by Alexis)
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it!" - Yogi Berra (submitted by "Dutche")
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Shallow minds discuss people. Which are you?" - Ann Landers (submitted by Patricia C.)
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due." --William Inge
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." --Albert Schweitzer
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with = what you have." - Doris Mortman
"There are no secrets to success: Don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for who you work, and persistence." --General Colin Powell=20
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." --John F. Kennedy
"Do not follow where the path my lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." --George Bernard Shaw
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." --Franklin P. Jones
"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it." - Margaret Thatcher
"Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith = is to see what you believe." - Saint Augustine, _Sermons_
"... my life has been a long series of interwoven relationships, both good and bad ... My relationships are my major source of stimulation, causing me to remain open, curious, eager to learn and challenged by change." - Dr. Leo Buscaglia
The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch, and it wouldn't remind you of anything."
The hardest struggle of all is to be someting different from what the average man is." - Charles Schwab
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because = thorns have roses." - Tom Wilson (in Ziggy)
It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while=20 he's in love, drunk, or running for office." --Shirley MacLaine
"Superman isn't brave. You can't be brave if you are indestructible. It's every day people like me and you that are brave, Knowing we can easily be defeated but still continue forward. That's TRUE Bravery!" --Jesse Downs
"No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as=20 a lawyer interprets truth." - Jean Giraudoux
"A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition." - William Arthur Ward
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." - Douglas Everett
"Life is like a mine field, you must walk through it one step at a time, but with imagination.= Once you shut down your imagination and step in the wrong direction, things blow up." --Ty Howard
GREAT THINKERS OF OUR TIME!?
1. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever."
Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest
2. "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor, starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
Mariah Carey
3. "Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are."
Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show, August 22
4. "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.
5."Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign.
6. "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."
Winston Bennett, Univ. of KY basketball forward
7. "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
8. "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
9. "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.
10. "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
Former French President Charlie De Gaulle
11. "That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it."
A Congressional Candidate in Texas
12. "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
Former U. S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
13. "Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
General William Westmoreland
And last but not least--a parting word from Dan Quayle:
14. "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle. -- Orlando A. Battista
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." --Muhammad Ali
The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you.= But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your waking hours. -- Beatrice Vincent
America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased." --P. J. O'Rourke
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. ~ Maxwell Maltz
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." - Fr. Jerome Cummings
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell=
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes." - Doug Larson=
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.= In this life we get nothing save by effort." - Theodore Roosevelt
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." --Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley, _Texts_and_Pretexts_
"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters.= One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." - Gandhi=
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand. Take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose." --Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Famous Dog Quotes
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." -- Robert A. Heinlein
"Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it." -- Unknown
"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." -- Unknown
"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies." -- Gene Hill
"Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant." -- Unknown
"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs." -- Aldous Huxley
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." -- Robert Benchley
"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives." -- Sue Murphy
"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money." -- Joe Weinstein
"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons." -- James Thurber
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." -- Ann Landers
"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him." -- Dereke Bruce, Taipei, Taiwan
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." -- Ben Williams
"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem." -- Edward Abbey
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." -- Christopher Morley
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." -- Josh Billings
"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be." -- Holbrook Jackson
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." -- Andrew A. Rooney
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." -- Unknown
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -- Mark Twain
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. --Charles Kingsley
"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel." - John Churton Collins
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." --Henry L. Mencken
"You know nothing for sure... except the fact that you know nothing for sure." --John F. Kennedy
"Pick your friends like you would pick a diamond. They all start off unpolished, but with a little work, They can become a sparkle in your life." --Gary Harrington
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything." --Charles Kuralt
Truman's Law - "If you can't convince them, confuse them." - Harry S. Truman
Barnum's Law - "You can fool most of the people most of the time." - P. T. Barnum
"I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically." - Steven Wright
"I put instant coffee into a microwave oven and almost went back in time." - Steven Wright
"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier ...I put them in the same room and let them fight it out." - Steven Wright
"Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it." - Steven Wright
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours." - Anne-Wilson Schaef
"I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them." --George Bush
"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already." - Marcus Aurelius
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything." --Oscar Wilde
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." --Charles Dickens
"I won't sleep in the same bed with a woman who thinks I'm lazy! I'm going right downstairs, unfold the couch, unroll the sleeping ba- uh, goodnight." - Homer Simpson
"Oh, that's hot. There isn't a man alive that wouldn't get turned on by that. Well, g'night." - Homer Simpson
"Marge, I'm going to miss you so much. And it's not just the sex. It's also the food preparation." - Homer Simpson
"Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?"= - Homer Simpson
"I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES." - Homer Simpson
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. -- Elbert Hubbard
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. -- Horace Mann
The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menace and frowns; and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering. -- William Channing
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. -- William Cullen Bryant
"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." -- Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol
"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." --William Jennings Bryan
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." - Hugh Downs
"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen." - Joe DiMaggio
"I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact." --Diane Sawyer
You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first." - Mark Twain
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
"It is better to give than receive...especially advice." - Mark Twain=
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
"Love your neighbor--but don't pull down your hedge." - Benjamin Franklin
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." - Benjamin Franklin
"There are no gains without pains." - Benjamin Franklin
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do." - Jose Ortega Y Gasset
"What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day." --Phyllis Diller
"The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin." --Jay Leno
It is always preferable to visit home with a friend. Your parents will not be pleased with this plan, because they want you all to themselves and because in the presence of your friend, they will have to act like mature human beings..." --Playboy, 1983
"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." --Antonio Smith
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle.
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling." - Mark Twain
"Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character." - P. G. Wodehouse
"Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have." - Harvey Penick
"Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies." - Will Rogers
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." --Richard Bach
"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else." --J. M. Barrie
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts." - Booker T. Washington
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." - Booker T. Washington
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." - Booker T. Washington
"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." - Booker T. Washington
"If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something." --Steven Wright
"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory." --Steven Wright
Put your troubles in a pocket with a hole in it." --Author unknown
For a moment, nothing happened.= Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen." --Douglas Adams
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to = consume wealth without producing it." - George Bernard Shaw, _Candida_
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who = face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." - Douglas Everett
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." - Oscar Wilde
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." -Winnie the Pooh
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." -Charles Caleb Colton
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus.
"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."
"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." -Mencius
"Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." -Stone Temple Pilots
"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay." -Dave Matthews Band
"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them"
"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."
"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere" - Tim McGraw
Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy." - Groucho Marx
"Sex is an emotion in motion." - Mae West
"Lord give me chastity -- but not yet" - Saint Augustine (354-430)
"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body.= Then I realized who was telling me this." - Emo Phillips=20
"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless=20 I buy something." --Jackie Mason
The greatest lesson in life is to know that=20 even fools are right sometimes." - Sir. Winston Churchill (1874-1965)=20
"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Sir. Winston Churchill (1874-1965)=20
"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity." - Sir. Winston Churchill (1874-1965)=20
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Sir. Winston Churchill (1874-1965)=20
Every baby comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged.=20 -- Rabindranath Tagore=20
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." - David Brinkley
"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." - John R. Wooden= - Practical Modern Basketball
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor." - Robert L. Stevenson
"The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more." - Ed Parker
Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way." - J. Michael Straczynski
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment." - Robert Collier
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way." --Daniele Vare=20
"Bart, a woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!" - Homer Simpson
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the = one that crushed it." - Anonymous
"Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself=20 is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making=20 other people feel good about themselves." --Homer Simpson
"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple." - C. W. Ceram
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they = don't want, to impress people they don't like." - Will Rogers
"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.= Push it, and it will go nowhere at all." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools." - Confucius
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but = among those I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." - W.H. Auden
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