| Great Quotes |
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| Dreams "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams; live the life you have imagined." -Henry David Thoreau Life Advice "If people listened to me more often, the world would be a much better place." -Me "If you want something, go for it, because it may not be there tomorrow." -Me "No one is a virgin; life screws us all." -Anonymous "There is no 'I' in team, but there is an 'i' in win." -Anonymous "You miss 100% of the shots that you never take." -Wayne Gretzky "No fear; no courage. Just faith!" -Me "To err is human. To lose is unheard of." -No Fear "The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50\50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability that you'll get it wrong." -Anonymous "Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak." -Anonymous "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted and then used against you." -Anonymous "Never ruin an apology with an excuse." -Kimberly Johnson "Today's greatest labor saving device is tomorrow." -Tom Wilson "To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when no one else will." -Sugar Ray Robinson "Start each day with a smile and get it over with." -W.C. Fields "The world is your playground. Why aren't you playing?" -Ellie Katz "True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leader." -Robert Townsend "Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." -Plato "'Tis better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt." -Abraham Lincoln "You can not depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain "It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us. The conscious really does not, and ought not to monopolize the whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part." -Henry David Thoreau Beauty "Some people are born with good looks, but beauty is something that you grow into." -An ad "The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated." -Charles Baudelaire "The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw." -Havelock Ellis Money "Money is the root of all evil; every woman needs roots." -Anonymous "Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent." -Plato Love "Never let a fool kiss you, and never let a kiss fool you." -An ad "A kiss may ruin a human life." -Oscar Wilde "Some women, when they kiss, blush, some call the cops, some swear, some bite, some laugh, some cry. Me? I die. Die. I die inside when you kiss me." -Samual Fuller (screenwriter) "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir. "By all means, marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philospher." -Socrates "Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles." -Beverly Jones "You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of that is only unsatisfied curiosity." -George Bernard Shaw (playwright) "Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command." -Alan Watts "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." -Bertrand Russell "There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness." -Friedrich Nietzsche "Love is the triumph of imagination over intellect." -H.L. Mencken "Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." -Iris Murdoch "Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less." -Rabbi Julius Gordon "For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is preparation." -Rainer Maria Rilke Individuality "To be great is to be misunderstood." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "I never found the companion that was so companiable as solitude." -Henry David Thoreau "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." -Henry David Thoreau "Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't." -Anonymous "Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason." -Jerry Seinfield "People who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music." -George Carlin Reflection "I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territoty." -Anonymous "A day without sun is like, well, night." -Anonymous "The problem with reality is the lack of background music." -Anonymous "Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes." -Woodrow Wilson "Just when you think you've graduated from the school of experience, someone thinks up a new course." -Mary Waldrip "I have not only use of all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." -Woodrow Wilson "It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied and most people live for the gratification of it." -Aristotle "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." -Socrates "Ignorance: the root and stem of every evil." -Plato "Life which is unexamined is not worth living." -Plato "Medicine, law, business, engineering. These are all noble pursuits. And necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love. These are what we stay alive for." -Tom Schulman (screenwriter) "Curiosity is one of the most permanant and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect." -Samual Johnson "Curiosity makes loneliness." -Mason Cooley "Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance." -Leonard Rubinstein "Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity." -Mason Cooley "Man alone resist the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall-upwards." -Friedrich Nietzsche "Life is a sexually transmitted disease." -Anonymous "Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect." -Steven Wright "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein "Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another." -H.L. Mencken Education "After three years' study, you want to tell the world; after three more, you hardly want to move an inch." -Chinese proverb Friendship "Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason." -Mason Cooley "Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves." -Oliver Goldsmith "Your friendship oft has made my heart to ache; Do be my enemy for frienship's sake." -William Blake "Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire." -Philip Dormer Stanhope "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." -Aristotle Rest "Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king." -Sophacles "Sleep, dear Sleep, sweet harlot of the senses, Delilah of the spirit." -Christopher Morley "Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep." -Ludwig Wittgentstein "There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow storm. We wake from one dream into another dream." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire." -Mason Cooley War "I must study politics and war that may sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosphy." -John Adams "It has been long noted that some conquerors prefer enemies as fierce as tigers and brave as eagles, for only then can they savor the true joy of victory." -Lu Xun "It is well that war is so terrible, else we would grow too fond of it." -Robert E. Lee "Blood alone moves the wheels of history." -Benito Mussolini "No battle is worth fighting except the last one." -J. Enoch Powell Mathematics "I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning." -Plato "Mathematics alone makes us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data...and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence." -Simone Weil "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we're saying is true." -Bertrand Russell "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possess not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture." -Bertrand Russell |
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