Favourite Quotes - culled from http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/quote.html
| "RESPONSIBILITY --> RESPONSE ABILITY" - | -- carus-group.com |
| "A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man." - | -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." - | -- Proverbs 17:22 |
| "A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good." - | -- Barbara Jordan |
| "Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. " - | -- K. Clark |
| "A soft answer turneth away wrath but grievous words stir up anger." - | -- Proverbs 15:1 |
| "All things should be done decently and in order." - | -- 1 Corinthians 14:40 |
| "America is woven of many strands." - | -- Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man |
| "And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course." - | -- Kahlil Gibran |
| "Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellowman, either by a considerable gift, or a sum of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood, and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and the summit of charity's golden ladder." - | -- Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon) |
| "Be not righteous over much." - | -- Ecclesiastes 7:16 |
| "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." - | -- Matthew 5:9 |
| "But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is the final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you know what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart." - | -- Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead |
| "By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart." - | -- Confucius |
| "Coherence is optional." - | -- Dr. Peter G. Bryant |
| "Cultivation of tolerance for other faiths will impart to us a truer understanding of our own." - | -- Mahatma Gandhi |
| "Do not let yourself be guided by the authority of the sacred texts, nor by simple logic, nor by appearance or opinion, nor even by the teachings of your master; when you know in yourself that something is bad, then give it up, and accept the good and follow it." - | -- Buddha |
| "Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity." - | -- Lao-tzu |
| "Envy and wrath shorten the life and carefulness bringeth age before the time." - | -- Ecclesiasticus 30:24 |
| "Face the facts candidly - | -- and then you can alter them." -- Emmet Fox |
| "Faith is the proof of what cannot be seen. What is seen gives knowledge, not faith." - | -- Pope Gregory I |
| "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." - | -- Proverbs 23:7 |
| "For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect." - | -- Mahatma Gandhi |
| "For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church." - | -- Sylvain of Athos |
| "Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant." - | -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
| "Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means...to a free society." - | -- Felix Frankfurter |
| "Frustra fit per plura, quod potest fieri per pauciora." (It is vain to do with more what you can do with fewer.) - | -- William of Ockham |
| "Give all, but without expectation or hope of recompense." - | -- Pope John XXIII |
| "God changes not what is in a people, until they change what is in themselves." - | -- The Koran |
| "Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations." - | -- Walt Whitman |
| "Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles." - | -- Confucius |
| "I accept all the religions of the past, and I worship God with them all. I leave my heart open to those of the future. The Book of Revelation is not yet complete." - | -- Vivekananda |
| "I came to the conclusion long ago, after prayerful search and study and discussion with as many people as I could meet, that all religions were true, and also, that all had some error in them; and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear...." - | -- Mahatma Gandhi |
| "I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - | -- Attributed to Voltaire, though apparently said by someone else in summary of Voltaire's view. |
| "I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with the sense, reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use." - | -- Galileo Galilei |
| "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character..." - | -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers." - | -- Kahlil Gibran |
| "I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religion is a sacred duty." - | -- Mahatma Gandhi |
| "I may not have any design upon my neighbor as to this faith, which I must honor even as I honor my own. For I regard all the great religions of the world as true, at any rate for the people professing them, as mine is true for me." - | -- Mahatma Gandhi |
| "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." - | -- Martin Luther King Jr. |
| "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free...it expects what never was and never will be." - | -- Thomas Jefferson |
| "If either wealth or poverty are come by honestly, there is no shame." - | -- Confucius |
| "If one acquires a good name he acquires something for himself." - | -- The Talmud |
| "If thou hast abundance, give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little." - | -- Tobit 4:8 |
| "If three of us travel together, I shall find two teachers." - | -- Confucius |
| "If you can touch the clocks and never start them, you can start the clocks and never touch them. That's logic as I know and use it." - | -- The Golux, in The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber |
| "If you cannot make yourself what you would like to be, how can you expect to have another person exactly to your wishes? We want to see others perfect, yet our own faults go unattended." - | -- Thomas a Kempis |
| "If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?" - | -- Maya Lin |
| "If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble." - | -- Emmet Fox |
| "If you talk to God you are praying; if God talks to you you have schizophrenia." - | -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin |
| "In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good." - | -- Mahatma Gandhi |
| "In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand." - | -- Gerald Holton |
| "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - | -- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "Into the well which supplies thee with water, cast no stones." - | -- The Talmud |
| "It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings." - | -- Mahatma Gandhi |
| "It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing." - | -- John Henry, Cardinal Newman |
| "It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintain it and work it out in his life." - | -- Epictetus |
| "It must not be assumed that it is only through the order and finality of the universe that one comes to the Creator; one can also come to the knowledge of the light through shadows." - | -- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen |
| "Just as water extinguishes a fire, so love wipes away sin." - | -- St. John of God |
| "Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth." - | -- Proverbs 27:2 |
| "Let us do something beautiful for God." - | -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta |
| "Let us look at each other without mistrust, meet each other without fear, talk with each other without surrendering principle." - | -- Pope John XXIII |
| "Let us look at our own shortcomings and leave other people's alone; for those who live carefully ordered lives are apt to be shocked at everything, and we might well learn very important lessons from the persons who shock us." - | -- St. Teresa of Avila |
| "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace." - | -- Romans 14:19 |
| "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." - | -- Judge Learned Hand |
| "Listen to everything, forget much, correct little." - | -- Pope John XXIII |
| "Love does not make the world go around, just up and down a bit." - | -- Crossfire |
| "Love me truly, fail me never, woman will I be forever; but if love should fail me thrice, I shall vanish in a trice. So tells the tale, so runs the spell. Prince Jorn, do you love me well?" - | -- The Princess, in The White Deer by James Thurber |
| "Mankind is one, and all men are alike in that which concerns their creation." - | -- Bartolome de las Casas |
| "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." - | -- Song of Solomon 8:7 |
| "My political views are those of the Lord's prayer." - | -- St. John Bosco |
| "One cannot have a happy life without wisdom, honesty, and justice, but these three are inseparable from pleasure." - | -- Epicurus |
| "One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator." - | -- Chief Seattle |
| "Our deeds, good or evil, follow us like shadows." - | -- Buddha |
| "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do... And as we let our own light shine, we unconciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - | -- Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love |
| "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." - | -- Confucius |
| "Peace is a never ending process....It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together." - | -- Oscar Arias Sanchez |
| "Prayer is a special exercise of faith. Faith makes the prayer acceptable because it believes that either the prayer will be answered, or that something better will be given." - | -- Martin Luther |
| "Prejudices, jealousies and suspicions make the soul miserable." - | -- George Whitefield |
| "Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness." - | -- Confucius |
| "Religion is not something that you and I can touch. Religion is the worship of God - | -- therefore a matter of conscience. I alone must decide for myself and you for yourself, what we choose." -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta |
| "Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life." - | -- Jonathan Edwards |
| "Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live." - | -- Jonathan Edwards |
| "Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'" - | -- Kahlil Gibran |
| "Seven qualities characterize the clod and seven the wise man: the wise man does not speak before him that is greater than he in wisdom; he does not break into his fellow's speech; he is not in a rush to reply; he asks what is relevant and replies to the point; he speaks of first things first and of last things last; of what he has not heard he says: 'I have not heard'; and he acknowledges what is true. And the opposites apply to the clod." - | -- The Talmud |
| "Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue." - | -- Confucius |
| "Tears are often the telescope through which men see far into heaven." - | -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| "The basis of a democratic state is liberty." - | -- Aristotle |
| "The land was ours before we were the land's." - | -- Robert Frost, "The Gift Outright" |
| "The past must be abandoned to God's mercy, the present to our fidelity, the future to divine providence." - | -- St. Francis de Sales |
| "The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments." - | -- Mercy Otis Warren |
| "The steady state theory has a sweep and beauty which the architect of the universe seems unaccountably to have overlooked. The universe in fact is a botched job, but I suppose we shall have to make the best of it." - | -- Dennis Sciama (a cosmologist) |
| "There is no god higher than truth." - | -- Mahatma Gandhi |
| "There is only one God but his names are countless, and countless are the aspects under which He can be considered. Name Him with any name and worship Him in the form you like best, you are sure to reach Him." - | -- Ramakrishna |
| "Three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon, and the truth." - | -- Buddha |
| "To be able to hear the divine calling, for grace to flow abundantly, it is enough to love something dearly, music, the sun, or a little child." - | -- Ramakrishna |
| "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted..." - | -- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 |
| "To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short." - | -- Confucius |
| "To keep the body in good health is a duty: otherwise the mind is not strong and clear." - | -- Buddha |
| "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - | -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "To me God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality; God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience...He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men." - | -- Mahatma Gandhi |
| "To think twice is quite enough." - | -- Confucius |
| "Todos en el mundo sonreimos en la misma lengua." [Everyone in the world smiles in the same language.] - | -- Mexican American proverb |
| "Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors." - | -- Confucius |
| "We are rapidly becoming a nation that is polarized along every possible line: gay vs. straight, feminist vs. conservative, pro-choice vs. anti-choice...in a nation of laws we have started to resort to acts of terror on large and small scales on either side of the spectrum. For two hundred years we prided ourselves on the idea - | -- sometimes flawed, and with occasional interruptions -- that we solved our problems at the ballot box, not with bullets or trunchens or muggings or firebombings. But now more and more both sides are frozen in concrete, opposing opinions are no longer tolerated or are proof of disloyalty or stupidity or cupidity or bigotry or immorality, people are reduced to stereotypes and jingoisms, everybody's demonized and nobody listens. We don't talk with each other, we yell AT each other. We are two steps away from madness and one step away from Beirut." -- J. Michael Straczynski (creator of Babylon 5), January 23, 1995 |
| "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - | -- Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence |
| "We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire." - | -- George Saintsbury, A History of Criticism |
| "We will surely get to our destination if we join hands." - | -- Aung San Suu Kyi |
| "What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man." - | -- Chief Seattle |
| "When I am prey of terror and fear, I shall bless Him...when I am in distress, I shall praise Him. And when He saves me, I shall shout out with joy." - | -- from the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| "When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." - | -- Epictetus |
| "Whenever God intends to bring about any great thing, he generally begins with a day of small things." - | -- George Whitefield |
| "Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home..." - | -- Eleanor Roosevelt |
| "Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasure of the mind. Books are humanity in print." - | -- Barbara Tuchman |
| "You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance." - | -- Kahlil Gibran |
| "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." - | -- John 8:32 |
| ...the fog is rising - | -- Emily Dickinson - last words |
| A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. - | -- Martin H. Fischer |
| A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. - | -- Zsa Zsa Gabor |
| A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. - | -- Goethe |
| A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. - | -- Sydney Smith |
| A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - | -- George Benard Shaw |
| A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. - | -- Arthur Schoperhauer |
| A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? - | -- Robert Browning |
| A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - | -- Edward Abbey |
| A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. - | -- Anon. |
| A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. - | -- Alexander Pope |
| A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. - | -- Ed Howe |
| A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. - | -- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) _All's Well That Ends Well_ IV.v |
| A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. - | -- William Shedd |
| A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. - | -- Michael Winner (b. 1935) |
| A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. - | -- St. Augustine |
| Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - | -- Stephen Leacock |
| Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. - | -- Oscar Wilde - last words |
| All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. - | -- Cormac McCarthy |
| All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... - | -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" (Conclusion, sct. 2) |
| All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. - | -- Charlie Chaplin |
| All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds. What they want, primarily, is the job; the necessary equipment of unescapable issues, immutable principles and soaring ideals can wait until it becomes more certain which way the mob will be whooping. - | -- H. L. Mencken, on the 1920 election campaign |
| All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. - | -- Aristotle |
| Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. - | -- Anon. |
| Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. - | -- Richard Rosen |
| Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. - | -- Anon. |
| As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. - | -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. - | -- Maurice Maeterlink |
| Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1. Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2. Advising the President. 3. Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. - | -- David Letterman |
| Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. - | -- Gen. George S. Patton |
| Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. - | -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
| Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. - | -- Anon. |
| Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. - | -- Jim Beggs |
| Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. - | -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. - | --Loesje |
| Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - | -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Lord Darlington, in Lady Windermere’s Fan, act 2. |
| By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. - | -- ROBERT FROST (1874-1963) |
| Cable is not a luxury, since many areas have poor TV reception. - | -- The mayor of Tucson, Arizona, 1989 |
| Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected. Carefully planned projects take four times longer to complete than expected, mostly because the planners expect their planning to reduce the time it takes. - | -- Unknown |
| Character is what you are in the dark. - | -- Dwight L. Moody |
| Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. - | -- Clarence Darrow |
| Children are one-third of our population and all of our future. - | -- Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981 |
| Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky. - | -- Rabindranath Tagor |
| Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. - | -- Anon |
| Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. - | -- Anon |
| Conceit causes more conversation than wit. - | -- LaRouchefoucauld |
| Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. - | --Anon. |
| Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! - | -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon |
| Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. - | -- Clare Boothe Luce |
| Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. - | -- Amelia Earhart |
| Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - | -- Eddie Rickenbacker |
| Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. - | -- Bill Moyers |
| Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. - | -- Edward H. Land |
| Cricket is best described as organised loafing. - | -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 |
| Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? - | -- Socrates - last words |
| Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. - | --John Simon |
| Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. - | -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. - | -- Senator Soaper |
| Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - | -- G. B. Shaw |
| Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - | -- George bernard Shaw |
| Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - | -- George bernard Shaw |
| Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. - | -- Anon. |
| Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. - | -- Laurence J. Peter |
| Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. - | -- H. L. Mencken |
| Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. - | -- Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - | -- E. B. White |
| Democracy, n.: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy. - | -- U.S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932), since withdrawn. |
| Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. - | -- John Barrymore - last words |
| Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m tier. (God will forgive me. It's his job.) - | -- Heinrich Heine - last words |
| Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. - | -- Aristotle (384-322BC) |
| Discretion is the better part of virtue, Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you. - | -- Ogden Nash 1902-1971 from The Old Dog Barks Backwards [1972] |
| Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. - | -- Euripides (480-406BC) |
| Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. - | -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Does living take a lot of your time? - | --Loesje |
| Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - | -- Pancho Villa - last words |
| Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. - | -- Frank W. Woolworth |
| Drink to me. - | -- Pablo Picasso - last words |
| Dulce bellum inexpertis. (War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.) - | -- Erasmus Rotterdamus, Adagia |
| Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. - | -- Kenny Ausubel |
| Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - | -- Oscar Wilde |
| Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. - | -- William Yeats |
| Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. - | -- Charles Caleb Colton |
| Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - | -- John Adams |
| Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - | -- Aldous Huxley |
| Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. - | -- Simeon Strunsky |
| Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. - | -- Saint John Chrysostom |
| Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - | -- George Washington |
| Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. - | -- Hermione Gingold (1897-1987) |
| For my part, I believe that the vainglorious and the violent will not inherit the earth... In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one. - | -- Daniel Berrigan |
| For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" - | -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) _Maud Muller_ [1856] |
| For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. - | -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. |
| For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alternative? - | -- Thornton Wilder |
| Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. - | -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ |
| Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. - | -- John-Paul Sartre |
| Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. - | -- Ludwig von Beethoven - last words |
| Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. - | -- Thomas Jones |
| Frogs are smart- | --they eat what bugs them. |
| Genius is an African who dreams up snow. - | -- Vladimir Nabokov |
| Get yourself vaccinated - | -- seafloors are spreading! |
| Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. - | -- H.L. Mencken |
| Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. - | -- H.L. Mencken |
| Go away...I'm alright. - | -- H. G. Wells - last words |
| Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. - | -- Karl Marx to his housekeeper |
| Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. - | -- George Saunders - last words |
| Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. - | -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV |
| Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. - | -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - | -- Gore Vidal |
| Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. - | -- Gore Vidal |
| He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose - | -- Jim Elliott |
| He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. - | -- Confucius |
| He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. - | -- Publilius Syrus |
| He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. - | -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way...if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it! - | -- A. A. Milne, the opening paragraph ofWinnie-the-Pooh |
| His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. - | -- Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) _Tom Jones_ (1749) bk. xi, ch. 4 |
| Honor lies in honest toil. - | -- Grover Cleveland |
| Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, `the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' - | -- Bierce, Ambrose (1842-?1914) |
| Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. - | -- Jonson, Ben (1673-1637) |
| Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. - | -- Beaumont, Francis (c.1584-1616) |
| How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. - | -- Abraham Lincoln |
| How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. - | -- Abraham Lincoln |
| I always think twice before I say something stupid. - | --Loesje |
| I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. - | -- Gilbert & Sullivan, from HMS Pinafore |
| I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. - | -- Gilbert & Sullivan, from HMS Pinafore |
| I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. - | -- Anne Sullivan |
| I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. - | -- John Brown - last words |
| I belong to no organized political party - | -- I am a Democrat. -- Will Rogers |
| I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. - | -- Oscar Wilde |
| I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. - | -- Charlie Chaplin |
| I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. - | --Charlie Chaplin |
| I don't meet competition. I crush it. - | -- Charles Revlon (1906-1975) |
| I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. - | -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" |
| I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. - | -- Henry James |
| I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it. - | -- Henry James |
| I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. - | -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher |
| I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? - | -- Benjamin Disraeli |
| I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. - | -- Thoreau |
| I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life - | -- Calvin |
| I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right. - | -- Ani DiFranco |
| I still live. - | -- Daniel Webster - last words |
| I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough. - | -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates |
| I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough. - | -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates |
| I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. - | -- Winnie the Pooh |
| I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. - | -- Woody Allen |
| I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. - | -- Charlie Chaplin |
| Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - | -- John Steinbeck |
| If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. - | -- Marie Tonkin |
| If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. - | -- Marie Tonkin |
| If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. - | -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on April 14, 1954. |
| If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. - | -- Marcus Aurelius |
| If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. - | -- Eleanor Roosevelt |
| If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - | -- Henry David Thoreau |
| If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. - | -- Anon. |
| If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary. - | -- Ayn Rand |
| If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. - | -- Chinese saying |
| If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. - | -- Richard Mitchell, fromLess than Words Can Say |
| If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. - | -- Anon. |
| If you wait until the last minute, then it only takes a minute. - | -- -Someone in Mr. Deckert's senior design class |
| I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. - | -- Calvin |
| I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" - | -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" |
| I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" - | -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" |
| In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. - | -- Conway's Law |
| In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. - | -- Gamaliel Bradford |
| In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. - | -- David Deckert |
| In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar- | --a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland |
| In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. - | -- Mortimer J. Adler |
| In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung a sign: "The best violins in all Italy." Not to be outdone, their next-door neighbors, the family Guarnerius, hung a bolder sign proclaiming: "The Best Violins In All The World!" At the end of the street was the workshop of Anton Stradivarius, and on its front door was a simple notice which read: "The best violins on the block." - | -- Freda Bright |
| In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. - | -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Network |
| Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. - | --Don Galer |
| Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - | -- Samuel Johnson |
| Is there life before death? - | -- Belfast Graffito |
| Isn't it incredible that the news from all over the world always fit exactly into the newspaper? - | --Loesje |
| It is a product of Einstein's genius - | -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 |
| It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. - | -- St. Francis of Assisi |
| It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. - | -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca |
| It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. - | -- Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) |
| It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. - | -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais |
| It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. - | -- Gore Vidal |
| It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. - | -- Gore Vidal |
| It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - | -- Henry James |
| It takes two to speak truth - | --One to speak, and another to hear. <BR>-- Henry David Thoreau |
| It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? - | --Loesje |
| It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor . . . I fought to win. - | -- Orson Scott Card from Ender's Game |
| It’s no credit to anyone to work to hard. - | -- Ed Howe (1853-1937) American Journalist |
| It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. - | -- Rick Radebaugh |
| It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past. - | --Charles Wright |
| It's the notion that there is no perfection- | --that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances. -- Singer Leonard Cohen, 9/24/95 commenting on his song Hallelujah |
| Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - | -- Mark Twain |
| Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. - | -- Roger Babson (1875-1967) |
| Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. - | -- Anne Sullivan |
| Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. - | -- Essie Summers |
| Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. - | -- Danny Kaye |
| Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight - | -- Ishikawa Takuboku |
| Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. - | -- Ambrose Bierce |
| Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. - | -- Joan Collins |
| Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. - | -- Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) |
| Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. - | -- Cecilia Egan |
| Marriage is like a cage- | --one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins |
| Marry in haste, repent in leisure. - | -- Tilney |
| Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart. - | -- Minna Antrim (fl. 1900) from Naked Truths and Veiled Illusions |
| More light! - | -- Goethe - last words |
| My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. - | -- ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865) |
| My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. - | -- INDIRA GANDHI |
| My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed! - | -- Anne Sullivan |
| Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. - | -- George R. Kirkpatrick |
| Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. - | -- Wolfgang Amadč Mozart 1756-1791 |
| Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. - | -- Benjamin Disraeli |
| Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. - | -- Anon. |
| new beauty waiting to be born. - | -- Dr. Dale E. Turner |
| Next time I'll take parents of my own age. - | --Loesje |
| Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. - | -- Thornton Wilder |
| No matter how desperate the predicament is, I'm always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. - | -- Charlie Chaplin |
| No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality. - | -- Brooke Astor, age 15 |
| No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. - | -- Anon. |
| No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. - | -- Anon. |
| 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 |
| Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. - | -- Samuel Ullman |
| None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. - | -- Herman Melville |
| Not to anticipate is already to moan. - | -- Leonardo da Vinci |
| Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure. - | -- A. Lou Vickery |
| Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - | -- James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish dramatist and novelist |
| Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. - | -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Now comes the mystery. - | -- Henry Ward Beecher - last words |
| Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child. - | -- Anne Sullivan |
| Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. - | -- Hesiod, "The Theogony," line 694 |
| Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst. - | -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British playwright |
| One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belive that one’s work is terribly important. - | -- Bertrand Rusell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher |
| Only that day dawns. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - | -- T.S. Eliot |
| Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. - | -- Bill Stern |
| Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. - | -- Joan Thompson |
| Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. - | -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) |
| People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. - | -- Anne Sullivan |
| People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. - | -- Walter Savage Landor |
| Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). - | -- Nicholas Negroponte |
| Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. - | -- Dean Inge |
| Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour. - | -- Hare, Julius (1795-1855) and Hare, Augustus (1792-1834), Guesses at truth (1827) series 1 |
| Quoting: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - | -- Ambrose Bierce |
| Realism is a corruption of reality. - | -- Wallace Stevens |
| Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. - | -- Ralph N. Gerard |
| Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - | -- Thornton Wilder |
| Semper Gumby (always flexible) - | -- Anon. |
| She felt in italics and thought in capitals. - | -- Henry James |
| Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. - | -- Georges Danton, to his executioner |
| Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. - | -- Ed Abbey |
| Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. - | -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist. Bernard, in The Waves (1931; repr. 1943, p. 189). |
| Someday is not a day of the week. - | -- Anon. |
| Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - | -- Calvin |
| Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. - | -- Jerry Garcia |
| Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit. - | -- - Filmmaker Costa-Gavras, 9/6/95 |
| than other people? - | -- Beah Richards |
| Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle never know. - | -- Charles Kingsley |
| That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. - | -- Madeleine L'Engle |
| The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed. - | -- VAIL'S SECOND AXIOM |
| The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. - | -- Karl Barth |
| The better part of valor is discretion. - | -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I <BR>[1597-1598], Act: V, Scene: iv, Line: 120 |
| The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. - | -- T[homas] H[enry] Huxley 1825-1895 A Liberal Education [1868] |
| The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. - | -- William James |
| The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. - | -- Philo Vance |
| The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. - | -- Elting E. Morison |
| The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. - | -- Paul Ehrlich |
| The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from undigested learning. - | -- Thomas Henry Huxley |
| The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. - | -- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| The greatest homage to truth is to use it. - | -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. - | -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-188) Prime Minister of Great Britain |
| The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. - | -- Anon. |
| The important thing is not to stop questioning. - | -- Albert Einstein |
| The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. - | -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. - | -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) _Conduct of Life_ `Worship' |
| The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. - | -- Lou Holtz (American football coach) |
| The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. - | -- Thomas Jefferson |
| The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. - | -- William Hazlitt |
| The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. - | -- Bertrand Russell |
| The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. - | -- Thomas Jefferson |
| The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. - | -- Woodrow Wilson |
| The nourishment is palatable. - | -- Millard Fillmore - last words |
| The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. - | -- Nicholas Murray Butler |
| The only reward of virtue is virtue. - | -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. - | -- Author Unknown |
| The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. - | -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. - | -- Thornton Wilder |
| The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will. - | -- Ingrid Bengis |
| The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. - | -- ROBERT FROST |
| The soul is healed by being with children. - | -- Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. - | -- Robert Benchley |
| The time is always right to do what is right. - | -- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. - | -- Paul Valery |
| The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. - | -- Benjamin Jowett From: Lovisa Lindberg Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 00:01:04 -0500 Subject: Quotes from Loesje Hallo!Here are some quotes for your amusement. They are all from the home-page of Loesje Interntional (Http://www.loesje.nl). Loesje International is association which members make posters with texts like those below. The posters can be seen in big cities all over Europe, and in other continents as well. |
| The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. - | -- Bhagava Gita |
| There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. - | -- Modern Maturity |
| There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. - | -- Ernest Hemingway |
| There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years... - | -- Walt Whitman,from There Was a Child Went Forth, in Leaves of Grass |
| There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. - | -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| There's a difference between being open-minded & having a hole in your head. - | -- Tom Parsons |
| There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! - | -- Calvin |
| They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... - | -- General John B. Sedgwick, 1864 - last words |
| They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. - | -- Antonio Porchi |
| Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it. - | -- HENRY FORD |
| This is the fourth? - | -- Thomas Jefferson - last words |
| This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. - | -- Winston Churchill |
| Thomas Jefferson- | --still surv... -- John Adams - last words |
| To be nobody-but-yourself- | -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can ever fight; and never stop fighting. -- e.e. cummings |
| To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. - | -- Ghandi |
| To do great, important tasks, two things are necessary: a plan and not quite enough time. - | -- Anon. |
| To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. - | --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" |
| To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. - | -- Henry James |
| True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. - | -- Henry David Thoreau |
| True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. - | -- Victor Hugo |
| Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. - | -- R. Scott Richards |
| Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - | -- Mark Twain |
| Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. - | -- Jean Anouilh |
| Use your own best judgment at all times. - | -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual |
| Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. - | -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. - | -- Confucius |
| War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. - | -- Dryden, John (1631-1700) |
| We are the echo of the future. - | -- W. S. Merwin |
| We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. - | -- Wehrner von Braun |
| We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. - | -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, - from Hermann und Dorothea |
| -We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world. - | -- - Filmmaker Costa-Gavras, 9/6/95 |
| We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. - | -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, - from The Conduct of Life |
| We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. - | -- Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| We must believe in free will, we have no choice. - | -- Isaac B. Singer |
| We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done. - | -- Theodore Roosevelt |
| We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. - | -- Voltaire |
| We tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization - | -- Petronius Arbiter (d. 66 A.D.) |
| Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? - | -- James Thurber |
| What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. - | -- Racine |
| What a waste it is to lose one's mind- | Dan Quayle |
| What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. - | -- Singer Alanis Morissette, 7/30/95 explaining her video for You Oughtta Know |
| What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. - | -- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890 |
| What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. - | -- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80), French writer, moralist. Sentences et Maximes Morales, no. 83 (1678) |
| What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. - | -- Octavio Paz |
| When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. - | -- Helen Rowland |
| When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. - | -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seasons |
| When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." - | -- Anon. |
| When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. - | -- Malcolm Forbes |
| When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'd by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in, without impropriety - | -- W. S. Gilbert |
| Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. - | -- Thornton Wilder |
| Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. - | -- A A Milne, closing lines of Winnie-the-Pooh |
| Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. - | -- David Starr Jordan |
| With both feet on the ground you won't get far. - | --Loesje |
| Work and play are words to describe the same thing under different conditions. - | -- MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) |
| Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. - | -- MARK TWAIN, "THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER" |
| Work expands to fill the time available. - | -- PARKINSON'S LAW |
| Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - | -- OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) |
| You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. - | -- Seymour Papert |
| You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - | -- George Bernard Shaw |
| You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. - | -- Charlie Chaplin |
| Your body cannot heal without play. Your mind cannot heal without laughter. Your soul cannot heal without joy. - | -- Catherine Rippenger Fenwick |
| Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. - | -- Kahlil Gilbran, from The Prophet |
| Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. - | -- Grover Cleveland |
| Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. - | -- Grover Cleveland |
| You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. - | -- WARREN BEATTY |
| The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; The realist adjusts the sails. | -- Mark Twain |
| Somehow a bunch of sanctimonious wackos have managed to legalize torture. | (Anonymous Airline Passenger) |
| I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. | (Anonymous Chinese Student) |
| It's like the coming of civilization. | (Anonymous Moscow Resident) |
| The west wasn't won on salad. | (ND Beef Council) |
| If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, 'There goes another day of my life, never to return,' you will become time conscious. | A. B. Zu Tavern |
| I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones. | A. Einstein |
| Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. | Addison |
| Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural. | Alastair Reid |
| Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastry demands all of a person. | Albert Einstein |
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. | Albert Einstein |
| The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. | Albert Einstein |
| In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. | Alexis Carrel |
| Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. | Alexis Carrel |
| Everything important has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. | Alfred North Whitehead |
| The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. | Allan K. Chalmers |
| If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. | Anatole France |
| Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one. | Anon. |
| Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us. | Anon. |
| If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy. | Anon. |
| Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use. | Anon. |
| Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves. | Anon. |
| The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden. | Anon. |
| Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate. | Anon. |
| Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others. | Anon. |
| Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead. | Anon. |
| Well done is better than well said. | Anon. |
| It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,; what is essential is invisible to the eye. | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. | Anwar El-Sadat |
| I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victort is the victory over self. | Aristotle |
| Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people. Nor for others, easier. | Baltasar Gracian |
| I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. | Barbara Bush |
| A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Through perserverence many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead. | Benjamin Franklin |
| We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness. | Bern Williams |
| It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world. | Bernie S. Siegel, MD |
| Dare to be naive. | Buckminster Fuller |
| There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. | Buckminster Fuller |
| Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. | Buddha |
| Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. | Buddha |
| Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man. | C. C. Colton |
| He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so. | C.C. Colton |
| Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence and determination. | Calvin Coolidge |
| Our lives are like a candle in the wind. | Carl Sandburg |
| Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. | Charles de Gaulle |
| It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. | Charles H. Spurgeon |
| It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization - It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. | Charles Sorenson |
| I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have. | Coleman Cox |
| Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you. | Colette |
| A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. | Confucius |
| Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. | Confucius |
| Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. | Dale Carnegie |
| Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here. | Dan Quayle |
| It matters not how many fish are in the sea . . . if you don't have any bait on your hook. | Dial West |
| Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad. | Donald Trump |
| The 1990s sure aren't like the 1980s | Donald Trump |
| Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence. | Dr. Benjamin Spock |
| Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. | Dr. Dale Turner |
| You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive. | Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett |
| The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. | Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. | Edward Gibbon |
| There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. | Emmanuel |
| No man is free who is not master of himself. | Epictetus |
| Do not mistake a child for his symptom. | Erik Erikson |
| Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. | Euripides |
| A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. | Fontenelle |
| Progress is not created by contented people. | Frank Tyger |
| You cannot teach a man anything.; you can only help him to find it for himself. | Galileo Galilei |
| Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large. | Gandhi |
| The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. | Gandhi |
| Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. | George Allen |
| People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. | George Allen |
| It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Life is no brief candle to me. I is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. | George Bernard Shaw |
| This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out - and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot. | George Burns |
| I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. | George Bush |
| Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand. | George Eliot |
| There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. | George Eliot |
| Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; it is better to be alone than in bad company. | George Washington |
| Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. | Goethe |
| Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action. | Goethe |
| Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. | Goethe |
| There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. | Grahm Greene |
| Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. | H.G. Wells |
| You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. | Harvey Firestone |
| 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 he hears however measured and far away. | Henry David Thoreau |
| If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. | Henry David Thoreau |
| That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. | Henry David Thoreau |
| When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. | Henry David Thoreau |
| There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. | Henry Ford |
| You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do. | Henry Ford |
| In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. | Janos Arany |
| Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. | John D. Wright |
| Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination. | John Dewey |
| Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. | John Donne |
| Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. | John Quincy Adams |
| Argument is the worst sort of conversation. | Jonathan Swift |
| Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. | Josh Billings |
| If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch. I'm from cattle country. That's why I became a vegetarian. | K.D. Lang |
| Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes. | Kahlil Gibran |
| The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. | Kahlil Gibran |
| To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. | Kahlil Gibran |
| The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth. | La Rochefoucauld |
| Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. | Laurence Sterne |
| I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling. | Lech Walesa |
| Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. | Leo Tolstoy |
| Only the little people pay taxes. | Leona Helmsley |
| Ability is a poor man's wealth. | M. Wren |
| Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. | Marcus Aurelius |
| When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point. | Maria Callas |
| It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. | Mark Twain |
| Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. | Mark Twain |
| Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. | Mark Twain |
| Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. | Mark Twain |
| Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. | Mark Twain |
| Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. | Mark Twain |
| A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Does Mike Tyson live near here? | Nelson Mandela |
| I take as my guide the hope of a saint: | Newt Gingrich |
| It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. | Newt Gingrich |
| A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. | Oscar Wilde |
| Punctuality is the thief of time. | Oscar Wilde |
| People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. | Pete Incaviglia |
| my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement. | Pete Rose |
| To win without risk is to triumph without glory. | Pierre Corneille |
| Beware the fury of a patient man. | Publius Syrus |
| You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. | Publius Syrus |
| A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude, | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Life is a progress, and not a station. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Skill to do comes of doing. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| To fill the hour-that is happiness. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| You teach best what you most need to learn. | Richard Bach |
| Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. | Richard E. Byrd |
| Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? | Robert Browning |
| Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. | Robert Frost |
| I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Musically, we are more talented than any Bob Dylan. Musically, we are more talented than Paul McCartney...I'm the new Elvis. | Robert Pilatus |
| As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is. | Robertson Davies |
| I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. | Ronald Reagan |
| You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit. | Ronald Reagan |
| The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. | Roy L. Smith |
| Poetry: the best words in the best order. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. | Silvan Engel |
| It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the more important. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| A short saying often contains much wisdom. | Sophocles |
| There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. | Sophocles |
| Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. | Sophocles |
| There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. | St. Francis De Sales |
| Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure . . . than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to he man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew niether victory nor defeat. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. | Thomas Alva Edison |
| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration. | Thomas Alva Edison |
| The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. | Thomas Carlyle |
| Better hazard once than always be in fear. | Thomas Fuller |
| He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. | Thomas Fuller |
| Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. | Thomas Fuller |
| The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. | Thomas J. Watson |
| He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes. But he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. | Tom J. Connelly |
| Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. | Vincent Voiture |
| Each man is led by his own liking. | Virgil |
| Fortune favors the bold. | Virgil |
| It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. | Voltaire |
| Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. | Voltaire |
| Le sens commun n'est pas si commun | Voltaire |
| Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I'm doing. | Wernher von Braun |
| I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money. | Will Rogers |
| It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. | Will Rogers |
| Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead. | Will Rogers |
| The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved. | Will Rogers |
| The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman. | Willa Cather |
| The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. | William Blake |
| What is now proved was once only imagined. | William Blake |
| Destiny is no 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 |
| To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. | William M. Thackeray |
| There are no athiests in foxholes. | William T. Cummings |
| Not doing more than average is what keeps the average down. | William Winans |
| We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm. | Winston Churchill |
| We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. | Winston Churchill |
| When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone. | Winston Churchill |