| Achievement If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can�t ,you�re right. n Mary Kay Ash My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that�s nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. n Helen Hayes Those that have done nothing in life are not qualified to judge of those who had done little. n Samuel Johnson I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. n Jonas Salk Advertising Advertising is 85% comfusion and 15% commission. n Fred Allen Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. n Stephen Butler Leacock Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. n Edgar Shoaff Advice Good advice is one of those insults that ought to be forgiven. n Anonymous In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice. n Winston Churchill A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. n E. W. Howe The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. n Oscar Wilde Age and Maturity There is a fountain of youth : it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. n Sophia Loren From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash. n Sophie Tucker Agreement If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless. n Darryl F. Zanuck Ambition Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. n Ambrose Bierce By working faithfully eight hours per day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. n Robert Frost Ancestry I don�t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. n Abraham Lincoln Anger Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. n Phyllis Diller Beware the fury of a patient man. n John Dryden To rule one�s anger is well; to prevent it is still better. n Tyron Edwards Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. n Horace No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. n George Jean Nathan Arts Painting is silent poetry; poetry is painting that speaks. n Simonides An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of Frebch operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clear understanding of English speaking audiences. n Edith Wharton When power leads man toward arrogance, peotry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man�s concern, poetry reminds him of richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. n John F. Kennedy With me peotry has not been a purpose, but a passion. n Edgar Allan Poe All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. n Oscar Wilde If you can�t annoy somebody, there�s little point in writing. n Kingsley Amis Bachelors Call no man unhappy until he�s married. n Socrates Beauty Nothing�s beautiful from every point of view. n Horace Beauty is only skin deep, but it�s a valuable asset if you�re poor or haven�t any sense. n Kin Hubbard I�m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That�s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? n Jean Kerr Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. n Sophia Loren Behaviour He who takes a stand is often wrong, but he who fails to take a stand is always wrong. n Anonymous Be nice to poeple on your way up because you�ll meet them on your way down. n Wilson Mizner With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud i try to be a fraud and a half. n Otto von Bismarck Betrayal It is all right to rat, but you can�t re-rat. n Winston Churchill Bible The Bible tells us to love our neighbours and also to love our enemies, probably because they are generally the same people. n G. K. Chesterton The Body One�s eyes are what one is, one�s mouth what one becomes. n John Galsworthy Boldness and Initiative Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. n Alexander Pope Change It�s hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. n George Burns The reasonable man adopts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. n George Bernard Shaw Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. n Leo Tolstoy If you want to make enemes, try to change something. n Woodrow Wilson Character The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know. n Kin Hubbard Every man has three characters : that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. n Alphonse Karr We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions. n Dwight Moody Charity A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. n Jack London Charm If you have it, you don�t need to have anything else, and if you don�t have it, it doesn�t much matter what else you have. n J. M. Barrie Charm is more than beauty n Yiddish proverb Children and Childhood Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. n Oliver Wendell Holmes Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. n Lord Rochester Conscience Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us. n Henry Fielding Conversation Wise men talk because they have something to say ; fools, because they have to say something. n Plato Courage The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. n Robert Ingersoll Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you�re scared. n Eddie Rickenbacker Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. n Horace Smith Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. n Mark Twain Criticism and Critics To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. n Elbert Hubbard Danger Th most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. n William Lloyd George Deception You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. n Frank Crane It is double the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. n Jean de la Fontaine Despair, Depression, Misery When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. n Roger W. Babson Facing it, always facing it, that�s the way to get through. Face it. n Joseph Conrad Diplomacy A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman�s birthday but never remembers her age. n Robert Frost Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. n Isaac Goldberg Dogs A dog is the only thing on this earth that loves you more than he loves himself. n Josh Billings The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. n Samuel Butler To his dog, every man is Napolean ; hence the constant popularity of dogs. n Aldous Huxley To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to men, not to other dogs. n Karl Kraus The more I see of men, the better I like dogs. n Mme. Roland 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. n Mark Twain Earth Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth. n Archimedes Ego He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. n Benjamin Franklin Emotion When dealing with people remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity. n Dale Carnegie The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. n George Santayana Enemies One should forgive one�s enemies, but not before they are hanged. n Heinrich Heine Equality Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. n Honor� de Balzac Evil The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary ; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. n Joseph Conrad It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. n H.L. Mencken Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. n Joseph Roux Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. n Mae West Experience Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. n Josh Billings Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. n Oscar Wilde Failure He�s no failure. He�s not dead yet. n William Lloyd George No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. n Groucho Marx Fame I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. n Shirley Temple Fear The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. n Michel de Montaigne To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. n Bertrand Russell Flattery Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. n Dale Carnegie It is easy to flatter ; it is harder to praise. n Jean Paul Richter Food and Eating A good eater must be a good man ; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience. n Benjamin Disraeli Forgiveness There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. n Josh Billings Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. n Oscar Wilde Freedom The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse. n Jules Renard Friendship Think twice before you speak to a friend in need. n Ambrose Bierce The only thing your friends will never forgive you is your happiness. n Albert Camus It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. n Marlene Dietrich We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter... It�s the way friends make love to one another. n Annie Gottlieb If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone ; one should keep his friendships in constant repair. n Samuel Johnson The only safe and sure way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend. n Mark Twain A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. n Walter Winchell Future I never think of the future ; it comes soon enough. n Albert Einstein Genius The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limit. n Anonymous God I look at the universe and I know there�s an architect. n Jack Anderson Satan hasn�t a single salaried helper ; the Opposition employs a million. n Mark Twain Gossip The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. n Will Rogers Grief To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in suffering. n Viktor Frankel Happiness It�s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. n Elbert Hubbard Happiness is not something you experience, it�s something you remember. n Oscar Levant Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. n Abraham Lincoln Hate The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is. n Louis-Ferdinand C�line Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. n Harry Emerson Fosdick It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. n Andr� Gide I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. n Booker T. Washington Hell When people no longer believe in hell, they promptly make this world into a place of torment. - Edward Coleson History All history is the propaganda of the victorious. n Anonymous History is a set of lies agreed upon. n Napoleon Bonaparte Hypocrisy Men is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat. n Samuel Butler Ideas Ideas are the root of creation. n Ernest Dimnet The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein ; it rejects it. n P.B. Medawar We use ideas merely to justify our evil, and speech merly to conceal our ideas. n Voltaire Idleness Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. n Johann G. Seume Imitation There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him. n Benjamin Franklin No man ever yet became great by imitation. n Samuel Johnson To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. n Pablo Picasso Insanity Only the insane take themselves seriously. n Max Beerbohm Intelligence It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. n Ren� Descartes The voice of intelligence ... is drowned out by the roar of fear ... Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. n Karl Menninger Jealousy And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not. n William ShakespeareJudgment Judgment It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. n Arnold Bennett You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. n Joseph Conrad Justice The love of justice in most men is only the fear of themselves suffering by injustice. n Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld Killing Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are God. n Jean Rostand All creatures kill - there seems to be no exception. But of the whole list man is the only one that kills for fun ; he is the only one that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge. n Mark Twain Kindness Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. n Christian Nestell Bovee Forget injuries ; never forget kindness. n Confucius Knowledge To the small part of ignorance that we arrange abd classify, we give the name knowledge. n Ambrose Bierce Labour Labor is man�s greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without work. n Orville Dewey Language Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. n Samuel Taylor Coleridge How can I tell what I think till I see what I say ? n E.M. Forster The learned fool writes his nonsense in a better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. n Benjamin Franklin Laughter He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. n Bertolt Brecht I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. n Wilson Mizner Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. n Oscar Wilde Law The English laws punish vice ; the Chinese laws do more ; they reward virtue. n Oliver Goldsmith Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but let the wasps and hornets break through. n Jonathan Swift Life Life is not lost by dying ; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. n Stephen Vincent Ben�t You live and learn, or you don�t live long. n Robert Heinlein The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life. n William James The difference between life and movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn�t. n Joseph L. Mankiewicz Life is a gamble at terrible odds. If it was a bet you wouldn�t take it. n Tom Stoppard Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. n Mark Twain Logic Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. n Joseph Wood Krutch Loneliness The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. n Norman Cousins In cities no one is quite but many are lonely ; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. n Geoffrey Francis Fisher Language has created the word �loneliness� to express the pain of being alone, and the word �solitude� to express the glory of being alone. n Paul Tillich Loss When wealth is lost, nothing is lost ; when health is lost, something is lost ; when character is lost, all is lost. n German proverb The cheerful loser is the winner. n Elbert Hubbard Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. n William Shakespeare Love If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. n Anonymous It is impossible to love and be wise. n Francis Bacon I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella. n Jimmy Cannon One is very crazy when in love. n Sigmund Freud Romantic love is a mental illness. But it�s a pleasurable one. It�s a drug. It distort reality, and that�s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. n Fran Lebowitz A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick - a youth with his first girl makes other people sick. n Mary Wilson Little Love is the triumph of imagination over imtelligence. n H.L. Mencken By the time you swear you�re his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying - One of you is lying. n Dorothy Parker Luck As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness ; our bad luck we give the god crdit for. n Josh Billings Luxury War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind ; at once corrupts the body and the mind. n John Crowne Lying Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it. n Lyman Beecher I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. n Samuel Butler There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. n William James Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. n Oliver Wendell Holmes The truth that survives is simply the lie that is the pleasantest to believe. n H.L. Mencken Man and Men The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. n Marlene Dietrich Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. n Alexander Hamilton Man is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and indeed, the only one that preys systematically on ist own species. n William James Manners The great secret is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manners for all human souls. n George Bernard Shaw Marriage Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces ; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash. n Dr. Joyce Brothers The difficulty with a marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. n Peter De Vries When there�s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. n Benjamin Franklin Only choose in a marriage a woman who you would choose as a friend if she were a man. n Joseph Joubert By all means marry ; if you get a good wife, you�ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you�ll become a philosopher. n Socrates Maturity The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one. n Wilhelm Stekel Medicine and the Medical Profession God heals and doctor takes the fee. n Benjamin Franklin We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. n George Bernard Shaw Money The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. n Kin Hubbard Virtue has never been as respectable as money. n Mark Twain When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. n Voltaire Morality About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. n Ernest Hemingway Go into the street and give one man a lecture on morality and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. n Samuel Johnson Mothers A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. n Mary Kay Blakely When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. n Sophia Loren Name Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. n Thomas C. Haliburton A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. n William Hazlitt A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. n Lord Jeffery Nostalgia Living in the past has one thing in ist favour - it�s cheaper. n Anonymous Obedience Wicked men obey from fear ; good men, from love. n Aristotle The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. n Thomas � Kempis Opinion New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. n John Locke Opportunity A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. n Francis Bacon Occasions are rare ; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. n Josh Billings You will never �find� thing for anything. If you want time you must make it. n Charles Buxton Optimism The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum. n Havelock Ellis A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. n Elbert G. Hubbard An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. n Don Marquis Originality Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. n Friedrich Nietzche A man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. n Mark Twain Pain Man endure pain as an undeserved punishment ; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. n Anonymous Passion The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. n Christian Nestell Bovee Patriotism Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. n Oscar Wilde Pessimism Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. n Philander Johnson My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. n Jean Rostand Pessimist : one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. n Oscar Wilde Philosophy Philosophy : a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. n Ambrose Bierce Plagiarism About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. n Josh Billings Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. n Samuel Taylor Coleridge Politics Politics : the conduct of public affairs for private advantage. n Ambrose Bierce Power Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. n Lord Acton Power is the ability not to have to please. n Elizabeth Janeway Praise Praises to the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving. n Samuel Taylor Coleridge Prejudice If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and colour, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon. n George Aiken Prejudice is the reasoning of the stupid. n Voltaire Pride There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. n Elbert Hubbard Procrastination Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action. n Aaron Burr Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. n Mark Twain Progress What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. n Havelock Ellis The Public The public is a ferocious beast : one must either chain it up or flee from it. n Votaire Quality It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. n Mahatma Gandhi Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. n Juvenal Quarrel People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. n G.K. Chesterton He thats blow the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do wiht has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. n Benjamin Franklin Question A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. n English Proverb No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. n George Bernard Shaw No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. n Charles Steinmetz Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. n Voltaire Race The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance. n Benjamin Disraeli Reading Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. n Ed howe Reason He that will not reason is a bigot ; he that cannot reason is a fool ; and he that dares not reason is a slave. n William Drummond It�s common for men to give pretended reasons instead of one real one. n Benjamin Franklin Religion Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. n Napoleon Bonaparte We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. n Jonathan Swift Reputation Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation ; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. n George Washington Responsibility Responsibility is the price of greatness. n Winston Churchill Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother. n Voltaire Reward The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. n Ralph Waldo Emerson He that does good for good�s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of noth in the end. n William Penn Rights Always do right ; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. n Mark Twain Sacrifice In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. n Henry Ward Beecher The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cat�s teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. n Mahatma Gandhi Scandal Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing n Paul Chatfield Science Most �scientists� are bottlewashers and button sorters. n Robert Heinlein Secrets and Secrecy Two things a man cannot hide : that he is drunk, and that he is in love. n Antiphanes How can we expect someone else to keep our secret if we have not been able to keep it to ourselves ? n Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. n Benjamin Franklin Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom ; wait until they have been married longer. n Ed Howe Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. n Elbert Hubbard To keep your secret is wisdom ; but to expect others to keep it is folly. n Samuel Johnson Self- Esteem Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. n Eleanor Roosevelt Self-Improvement What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. n Thomas Sprat Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish. n Cecile M. Springer Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength. n August Wilson Self-Knowledge We know what we are, but know not what we may be. n William Shakespeare I am the only person in the world I should like to know throughly. n Oscar Wilde Self-Respect He that respects himself is safe from others ; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. n Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Have respect for your species. You are a man ; do not dishonour mankind. n Jean-Jacques Rousseau Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has low opinions of himself. n Anthony Trollope Selling To sell something, tell a woman it�s a bargain ; tell a man it�s deductible. n Earl Wilson Sex Cheap sex and precious love ; you can�t have one if you have the other. n Jim Conway Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of mdern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist ; the moderns pretend that nothing else exists. n Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Sex : The Gender Gap In a husband there is only a man ; in a married woman there is a man, a father, a mother, and a woman. n Honor� de Balzac If Nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than 3 in a family. n Laurence Housman Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can�t find any clean socks. n Jean Kerr Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariable have the upper hand. n Stephen Potter To women, love is an occupation ; to men, a preoccupation. n Lionel Strachey Men marry because they are tired ; women marry because they are curious. Both are dissapointed. n Oscar Wilde Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. n Lois Wyse Show Business I beg you to remember that acceptance speeches should be intelligent, witty, and brief. When you leave the stage, your award will be taken from you so that it can be engraved. If you take longer than 30 seconds to accept your award, it will be returned to you eventually, but your name will be misspelled. n Alexander Cohen Sin Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven ; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at. n Josh Billings Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. n Benjamin Franklin Skepticism Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. n Denis Diderot Great intellects are skeptical. n Friedrich Nietzsche Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. n Romain Rolland Sleep Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day. n Chamfort Fatigue is the best pillow. n Benjamin Franklin Smoking The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches. n Anonymous Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind. n Philip Freneau A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless. n King James I I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn�t want to smoke, but I didn�t believe myself. n Barbara Kelly I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading. n Henry G. Strauss To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did ; I ought to know because I�ve done it a thousand times. n Mark Twain Solitude I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. n Albert Einstein Sorrow Sorrow makes men sincere. n Henry Ward Beecher There can bo no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. n J.H. Vincent Space The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth. n Anonymous Speech Speech is power : speech is to presuade, to convert, to compel. n Ralph Waldo Emerson Half of the world is composed of people who have something to say and can�t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. n Robert Frost Many a man�s tounge broke his nose. n Seamus MacManus All speech, written or spoke, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. n Robert Louis Stevenson Sports If you want to meet new people, pick up the wrong golf ball. n Anonymous Winning is not everything. It�s the only thing. n Vince Lombardi I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people�s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man�s failures. n Chief Justice Earl Warren Strength There is only one right in the world and that right is one�s own strength. n Adolf Hitler Strength without gentleness is tyranny. -Joanne D. Holland My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. n Lord Tennyson Success Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. n Albert Einstein Success has ruined many a man. n Benjamin Franklin Success or failure lies in conformity to the times. n Niccolo Machiavelli All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and the Success is sure. n Mark Twain It is not enough to succeed ; others must fail. n Gore Vidal Suffering By suffering comes wisdom. n Aeschylus Man cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is noth the marble and the sculptor. n Alexis Carrel Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. n Mark Twain Suicide To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. n Aristotle Survival If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. n Nikita Khrushchev One can survive anything these days except death. n Oscar Wilde Sympathy The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best strength that he may be able to bear the burden. n Phillips Brooke Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other. n Mother Teresa Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those word. n Rainer Maria Rilke When you see a man in distress, recognise him as a fellow man. n Seneca Teaching A teacher affects eternity. n Henry B. Adams It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. n Albert Einstein Knowledge exists to be imparted. n Ralph Waldo Emerson You cannot teach a man anything ; you can only help him find it within himself. n Galileo He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. n George Bernard Shaw To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - and less trouble. n Mark Twain Technology One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. n Elbert Hubbard Television I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. n Groucho Marx Temptation There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. n Mark Twain Truth It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you wer in his place. n H.L. Mencken Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. n Mark Twain The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. n Oscar Wilde Understanding What you cannot understand, you cannot possess. n Goethe If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. n Carl Jung Unity Men�s hearts ought not to be set againts one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only. n Thomas Carlyle Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. n Mahatma Gandhi Vanity We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don�t care for. n Marie von ebner-Eschenbach Vengeance The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us. n Jane Potter Victory The most important thing in the Olympic games is not winning but taking part ... The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. n Pierre de Coubertin We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace. n Paul Hoffmann Victory and defeat are each of the same price. n Thomas Jefferson Violence All violence, all that is dready and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. n Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing good ever comes of violence. n Martin Luther In violence we forget who we are. n Mary McCarthy Vision The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. n Winston Churchill You see things ; and say �Why?� But I dream things that never were and I say �Why not?� n George Bernard Shaw Vote I never vote for anyone. I always vote againts. n W.C. Fields War Soldiers usually win battles and generals get the credit for them. n Napoleon Bonaparte There never was a good war or a bad peace. n Benjamin Franklin War is, at first, the hope that we will be better off ; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off ; then, the satisfaction that he isn�t any better off ; and, finally, the surprise at everyone�s being worse off. n Karl Kraus Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. n Will Rogers Waste A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. n Charles Darwin Weakness Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. n Josh Billings A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. n Lord Chesterfield Weather Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating ; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. n John Ruskin Wickedness It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. n Josh Billings It is a fact that cannot be denied : the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. n Carl Jung Wife Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. n Jim Backus Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife. She has thought much worse things about you. n Jean Rostand Will People do not lack strength ; they lack will. n Victor Hugo Wit You can pretend to be serious ; you can�t pretend to be witty. n Sacha Guitry Wit lies in recognising the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. n Madame de Sta�l Woman and Women Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. n Ambrose Bierce The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run. n John Barrymore Woman is at once apple and serpent. n Heinrich Heine You don�t know a woman until you have had a letter from her. n Ada Leverson Words A blow with word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. n Robert Burton A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. n Henrik Ibsen Work Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. n J.M. Barrie The world is filled with willing people ; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. n Robert Frost Youth In youth we run into difficulties, in old age difficulties run into us. n Josh Billings When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress. n Gelett Burgess Zeal To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious. n William Penn |