| QUOTABLE QUOTES You're at your best in a fight when you feel you're being given a raw deal. People who pretend to diet live in a food's paradise. Every road has a friend, every friend has a road. Man is a fountain pen, Cerebrum the ink fluid, God is the notepad. God is very kind we don�t have the patience to believe in his goodness but he never lets us down. There is only one emotion you are born with, that is fear. He travels fastest who travels alone. When a fellow says it isn�t money but the principle of the things, it's money. One who gets down to brass tracks rises rapidly. You miss 100% of the slots you never take. A jury consists of 12 persons chooses to decide who has the better lawyer. Everyday is a good day, your attitude makes it better. Gambling is a sure way of getting something from nothing. Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. Only make a great deal if you have no intention of ever doing business with that person again otherwise make a good deal. We don�t know how much good a simple smile can do. It is always the best policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Don�t hog the credit ...share it. People will work with you and for you if they are recognized, they will work against you if they are not. Idea of stricking minding our own business is rubbish, who could be so selfish. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. The number one thing a poisonous snake should remember ....never bite your tongue ...you may kill yourselves with your own poison. By all means marry if you get a good wife you will be happy. If you get a bad one you will become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man. Flattery is all right so long as you don�t inhale. Nobody plans to fail, they only fail to plan. When the weight is up, how can the spirits be low? All of the greatest technological innovations of man - the automobile, the airplane, the computer, says little about man's intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. One of the greatest advantages of holding your tongue is that you have nothing to take back. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Anything free is worth what you pay for it. A witty saying proves nothing. Happy people don�t necessarily have best of everything. They make the best of everything. You can�t build a reputation on what you're going to do. There are two types of employees - those who do the work and those who take credit. Try to be in the first group, there is much less competition there. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but who doesn�t ask remains a fool forever. Bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of meeting the schedule has been forgotten. Nobody believes the official spokesman...but everybody trusts an unidentified source. Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Never let what you can�t do, interfere with what you can do. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. It is better to slip with the foot than with the tongue. Good and bad luck is often synonym in many cases for good and bad judgement. I CANT DO IT has never yet accomplished anything I WILL TRY has performed wonders. Test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority. Test of courage comes when we are in minority. Wise man learns more from fools than fools learn from the wise. Good listeners generally make more sales than good talker. One who considers too much will perform too less. There are no stupid questions. There are only stupid answers. Agree to disagree agreeable. Our grateful glory is in never failing, but in raising up every time we fail. Conscious small inner voice usually talking to a stone wall. Bad massage parlors rub people the wrong way. Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Alcohol and calculus don�t mix. Never drink and derive. It is not the load that breaks you down, it is the way you carry it. Every successful person has had failures, but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventful success. Learn from the mistakes of others, you cant live long enough to make them all yourselves. How come marriage license doesn�t require a learning permit. Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you are alive, it isn't. Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. We can�t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking as we used when we created it. Never test for an error you don�t know how to handle it. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg not by smashing it. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. Never explain - your friends don�t need it and your enemies won�t believe you anyhow. I feel television is very educating, every time somebody turns on the set, I go in to the other room to read a book. One should be aware of barrenness of busy life. "Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." "Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace with yourself." "To find yourself, think for yourself." Socrates "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, theother is pulling up." "The only way to have a friend is to be one." "The road to a friend's house is never long." Don't walk ahead of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me, and be my friend. "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." "If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others." "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." "Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." "We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are." "Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." "In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future. It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." "The only way to have a friend is to be one." "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were "Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." "Love means never having to say you're sorry." When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling. "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." "Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind." "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly." "If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it." Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. A friend is someone who has the same enemies you have. For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is. Discipline is remembering what you want. It is better to be unborn than untaught; for ignorance is the root of misfortune. "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." "When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing." It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. It is taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel. Life is like a ladder, the higher you climb, the more expansive your view is. "Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it." "Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly." "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better." "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." "Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." No man is rich enough to buy back his past. Nothing is as soft as water, yet who can withstand the raging flood? Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." "When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" "When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing." "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." "When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." "The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." "Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by." The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly. The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs. "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." "He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere." "If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us." Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." "We aim above the mark to hit the mark." "Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you." "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision." "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." "The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going." "To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." "To err is human; to forgive, divine." "Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do." "Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view." "Beware how you take away hope from another human being." "Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat." "Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." "I never learned anything from a man who always agreed with me." "No one is listening until you make a mistake." "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." "A clever man is known by his answers; a wise man by his questions." "There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start." "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." "The ends must justify the means." "Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength." "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." "If you can't make it good, at least make it look good." "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm" "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." "A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with." "In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them.'' "Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." "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." "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." "Guide to understanding a net addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on Usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of Usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of Usenet." "The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it." "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." "There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." "The worst thing you can do to yourself is to stop learning" "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." "Every exit is an entry somewhere." "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." Well, to create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" "Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure." "Wit is the lowest form of humor." The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. [The] Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." "We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." "If you can't return a favor, pass it on." "The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own." "They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve." "If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind." The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating system. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." "When you're the best, the rest follow." "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." "Silence is one great art of conversation." "The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing." "A thief believes everybody steals." "Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?" "To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." "When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." "We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision." "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger." Dreams are renewable. As long as we keep them alive within us, They are always within reach. Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future. Every person you meet knows something you don't, Learn from them. Things work out best for the people who make the best out of the way things work out. Only those who will risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go. Victory is what happens when ten thousand hours of hard work meet up with one moment of opportunity. "We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." "If you can't return a favor, pass it on." We are all Gifted, Average, or Slow depending on the task at hand. Ive learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. Age 82 A thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. MARRIAGE QUOTES --------------- An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. --------------------------------------------------------------------- It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Men have a better time than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --------------------------------------------------------------------- "A man without a woman is like a fish without a bicycle." --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street bald and still think they are beautiful." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriage is a three ring circus: --engagement ring ---wedding ring ---suffering ----------------------------------------------------------------- When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why. When a ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why. ----------------------------------------------------------------- A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. ----------------------------------------------------------------- When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife. ------------------------------------------------------------------ When a man is single, he's incomplete. When he's married, he's finished. Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak? Statistics show that at the age of seventy, there are five women to every man. Isn't that the damnedest time for a guy to get those odds? ************************************************************ Maybe it's true that life begins at forty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. ************************************************************ You're getting old when you don't care where your wife goes, just as long as you don't have to go along. All generalizations are false. Impotence: Nature's Way Of Saying "No Hard Feelings". |