Favourite Quotes - culled from http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/quote.html

"ASSUME - you make an ASS of U and ME"-- Anonymous 9/6/95"
"You can't move forward in life by standing still...take that first step ahead and everything else will follow."
"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"
"A Dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfaction in past greatness & half-remembered glory - John Steinbeck (1902-1968)"
"Good things do not come to those who wait! -- Anonymous"
"Fortune helps the Bold - Andentes fortura Jumat -- Anonymous"
"Your attitude determines your altitude -- Anonymous"
""But God wisely granted No man any knowledge Of the next minute Talk less of the mystery Behind tomorrow's curtain" -- Wondering Thoughts from SONGS FROM EXILE"
"Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit." "-- - Filmmaker Costa-Gavras, 9/6/95"
"The essence of war is violence..moderation in war is imbecility." "-- Sir John Fisher"
"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"
"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"
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
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
"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"
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley
"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
Quoting: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. -- Ambrose Bierce
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart
"We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent." -- Anatole France (1844-1924)
"when you are in a hole, stop digging" -- British saying
"I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right." -- Ani DiFranco
"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
"No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in." -- Anon.
"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.
"To do great, important tasks, two things are necessary: a plan and not quite enough time." -- Anon.
Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. -- Anon.
"If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example." -- Anon.
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon.
Semper Gumby (always flexible) -- Anon.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon.
"If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer." -- Anon.
Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon.
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. -- Anon.
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times. -- Anon.
Cricket is best described as organised loafing. "-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996"
"They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own." -- Antonio Porchi
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. " -- Aristotle (384-322BC)
"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"
"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants." -- Arthur Schoperhauer
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown
"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
than other people? -- Beah Richards
"Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. " "-- Beaumont, Francis (c.1584-1616)"
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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 most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita
"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)"
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern
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
"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"
Your body cannot heal without play. Your mind cannot heal without laughter. Your soul cannot heal without joy. -- Catherine Rippenger Fenwick
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer." -- Charles Caleb Colton
"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
"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. " -- Clarence Darrow
"Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. " "-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)"
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy
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"
"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
I still live. -- Daniel Webster - last words
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye
"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
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan
"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
new beauty waiting to be born. -- Dr. Dale E. Turner
"For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect." "-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963."
"the purpose of history is to teach us not to repeat its mistakes. "-- Anonymous
"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."
"War, he sung, is toil and trouble; >Honour but an empty bubble. " "-- Dryden, John (1631-1700)"
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
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison
"The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. " "-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) _Conduct of Life_ `Worship'"
...the fog is rising -- Emily Dickinson - last words
"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
"Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. " -- Euripides (480-406BC)
"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"
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
"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
The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
"In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. " -- Gamaliel Bradford
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
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist... "-- General John B. Sedgwick, 1864 - last words"
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington
"Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. " "-- Georges Danton, to his executioner"
"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. " -- Ghandi
"I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all." "-- Gilbert & Sullivan, from HMS Pinafore"
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. -- Goethe
More light! -- Goethe - last words
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- 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
"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust." -- Grover Cleveland
Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland
Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells - last words
"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"
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken
"Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour. " "-- Hare, Julius (1795-1855) and Hare, Augustus (1792-1834), Guesses at truth (1827) series 1"
Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m tier. >(God will forgive me. It's his job.) -- Heinrich Heine - last words
"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
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau
Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher - last words
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold (1897-1987)
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 belong to no organized political party -- I am a Democrat. -- Will Rogers
"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
"Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?" -- James Thurber
"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage." -- Jean Anouilh
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... "-- Jean-Paul Sartre, ""Being and Nothingness"" (Conclusion, sct. 2)"
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins
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"
"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
"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. " -- John Barrymore - last words
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." -- John Steinbeck
"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"
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. "-- Jonson, Ben (1673-1637)"
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
"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"
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)"
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. -- Karl Barth
"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. " -- Karl Marx to his housekeeper
"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"""
Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter
Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci
"Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. " -- Ludwig von Beethoven - last words
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
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin
"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
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer
The time is always right to do what is right. "-- Martin Luther King, Jr."
"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past." -- Maurice Maeterlink
The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore - last words
"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
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity
"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
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler
"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
"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity." -- Octavio Paz
"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]
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"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."
"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
"Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -- Oscar Wilde
"I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing." -- Oscar Wilde
"Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. " -- Oscar Wilde - last words
Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso - last words
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa - last words
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich
"The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence." -- Philo Vance
"a victorious soldier is one that lives to fight another day " -- Anonymous
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards
"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them." -- Ralph N. Gerard
"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
The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. " -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
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"
"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"
"Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen." -- Richard Rosen
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley
"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
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson (1875-1967)
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. " -- Samuel Johnson
"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
Children are one-third of our population and all of our future. "-- Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981"
"You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something." -- Seymour Papert
"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"
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky
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"
"Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? " -- Socrates - last words
"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. " -- St. Augustine
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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"
Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual
"Cable is not a luxury, since many areas have poor TV reception." "-- The mayor of Tucson, Arizona, 1989"
"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
"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. " -- Thomas Carlyle
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle
"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
This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson - last words
"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
Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov
We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin
Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens
"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"
"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend." -- Walter Savage Landor
"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." -- Wehrner von Braun
"The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have." -- William Hazlitt
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"
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. "-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV"
"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." -- William Shedd
"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." -- William Yeats
"I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead." -- Winnie the Pooh
"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read." -- Winston Churchill
"The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. " -- Woodrow Wilson
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon.
"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
"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
"Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. " --Don Galer
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon
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"""
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje
Isn't it incredible that the news from all over the world always fit exactly into the newspaper? --Loesje
With both feet on the ground you won't get far. --Loesje
Next time I'll take parents of my own age. --Loesje
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje
Does living take a lot of your time? --Loesje
I always think twice before I say something stupid. --Loesje
"It takes two to speak truth, One to speak, and another to hear" Henry David Thoreau
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal
"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"""
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern
"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"
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. -- Gore Vidal
"No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in." -- Anon.
"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.
"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust." -- Grover Cleveland
"I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all." "-- Gilbert & Sullivan, from HMS Pinafore"
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins
"Marry in haste, repent in leisure." -- Tilney
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.
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar --a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce
Marriage is like a cag --one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan
"It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out." -- Rick Radebaugh
There's a difference between being open-minded &amp; having a hole in your head. -- Tom Parsons
"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
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire
"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
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon.
"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
"Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child." -- Anne Sullivan
"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
"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
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. -- Anne Sullivan
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James
She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James
"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
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 don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James
"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
"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
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." -- Charlie Chaplin
"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
"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
"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day." -- Thornton Wilder
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder
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
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alternative? -- Thornton Wilder
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
"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
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
"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)"
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)."
"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."
"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
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish dramatist and novelist
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe (1853-1937) American Journalist
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
"Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British playwright
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine
Dulce bellum inexpertis. (War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.) "-- Erasmus Rotterdamus, Adagia"
The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the amount of work already completed. -- VAIL'S SECOND AXIOM
Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)
Work and play are words to describe the same thing under different conditions. -- MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -- ROBERT FROST
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. -- OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900)
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
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it." -- HENRY FORD
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- J.M. BARRIE
"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)
"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"""
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
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey
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
"I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life" -- Calvin
"I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information." -- Calvin
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_
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)
"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.)
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner (b. 1935)
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate." -- Thomas Jones
I don't meet competition. I crush it. -- Charles Revlon (1906-1975)
"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 Amadè Mozart 1756-1791
"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
"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]
"We must believe in free will, we have no choice." -- Isaac B. Singer
"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]
"Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor." "-- Hesiod, ""The Theogony,"" line 694"
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock
"If you wait until the last minute, then it only takes a minute." -- -Someone in Mr. Deckert's senior design class
"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
"Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight" -- Ishikawa Takuboku
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius
"If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading." -- Chinese saying
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. -- H. L. Mencken
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 government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James
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
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- G. B. Shaw
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."
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky." -- Rabindranath Tagor
Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot
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
"A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?" -- Robert Browning
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers
Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody
To be nobody-but-yoursels "-- 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"
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
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz (American football coach)
"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available." -- Jim Beggs
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson
"A diplomat is a person who: always knows what to talk about, but doesn't always talk about what he knows. always tries to settle problems created by other diplomats. can always make himself misunderstood. can bring home the bacon without spilling the beans. can say the nastiest things in the nicest way. can tell you to go to hell so tactfully that you look forward to the trip. comes right out and says what he thinks when he agrees with you. divides his time between running for office and running for cover. lets you do all the talking while he gets what he wants. puts his cards on the table, but still has some up each sleeve. will lay down your life for his country. " Unknown
"My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity." Unknown
"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals." Unknown
Truth is on the side of the oppressed. Unknown
"Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise." Unknown
"Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe that everyone in here is a friend and I don't want to leave anybody out." Unknown
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. Unknown
"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time." Unknown
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. Unknown
They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time. Unknown
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. Unknown
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things." Unknown
"When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself." Unknown
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle. Unknown
"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." Unknown
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Unknown
"There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." Unknown
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. Unknown
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Unknown
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." Unknown
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you. Unknown
"Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife." Unknown
"The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency." Unknown
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. Unknown
"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant." Unknown
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. Unknown
"Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him." Unknown
"I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." Unknown
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end. Unknown
"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." Unknown
"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack." Unknown
"That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it." Unknown
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning . . . Every day I find something creative to do with my life. Unknown
I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. Unknown
"Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change." Unknown
"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. <LI>There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto III [1816], st. 21" Unknown
"If you eat a live frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for the rest of the day." Unknown
Vain the ambition of kings Unknown
Never fear big long words. Unknown
Only that day dawns Unknown
"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and" Unknown
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? Unknown
The six phases of a project: 1. Enthusiasm 2. Disillusionment 3. Panic 4. Search for the Guilty 5. Punishment of the innocent 6. Praise and Honors for the Non-Participants Unknown
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good. Unknown
Conscious is when you are aware of something and conscience is when you wish you weren't. Unknown
Wasting time is an important part of life. Unknown
"Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary" Unknown
"Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return. <BR>Boileau, Nicolas (1636-1711) _Satires_ (1666) satire 10, l. 167" Unknown
Life after Fifty (thanks to Rex Guinn) Unknown
Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt doesn't work Unknown
The gleam in your eyes is from the sun hitting your bifocals Unknown
You feel like the night before and you haven't been anywhere Unknown
You get winded playing chess Unknown
Your children begin to look middle aged Unknown
You begin to outlive enthusiasm Unknown
Your mind makes contracts your body can't meet Unknown
"You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions" Unknown
You look forward to a dull evening Unknown
Your favorite part of the newspaper is 25 Years Ago Today Unknown
You sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going Unknown
Your knees buckle and your belt won't Unknown
You reget all those mistakes resisting temptation Unknown
Dialing long distance wears you out Unknown
Your back goes out more than you do Unknown
A fortune teller offers to read your face Unknown
You burn the midnight oil after 9:00 pm Unknown
You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there Unknown
You get your exercise acting as a pallbearer for your friends who exercise Unknown
You have too mech room in the house and not enough room in the medicine cabinet Unknown
The best part of my day is over when the alarm goes off Unknown
A blank page is God's way of showing you how hard it is to be God. Unknown
A bore is a person who brightens a room simply by leaving it. Unknown
"A bore is someone who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." Unknown
A closed mouth gathers no feet. Unknown
A complete catastrophe includes not learning from the experience. Unknown
A conference is a way of postponing a decision. Unknown
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure. Unknown
"A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it." Unknown
A good sermon leaves you wondering how the preacher knew all about you. Unknown
A man is known by the company he avoids. Unknown
A mind is like a parachute: it only functions when it is open. Unknown
A person who has a right to boast doesn't have to. Unknown
A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. Unknown
A smile confuses an approaching frown. Unknown
A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity. Unknown
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein. Unknown
A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense. Unknown
"A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody." Unknown
A wish is a desire without an attempt. Unknown
"After all is said and done, more is said than done." Unknown
"All men are self-made, but only the successful will admit it." Unknown
Always put off until tomorrow the things you shouldn't do at all. Unknown
An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness. Unknown
An excuse is often substituted for reason. Unknown
"As a rule, a quitter isn't a very good beginner either." Unknown
"As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time." Unknown
"As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less." Unknown
Better aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher. Unknown
"Death and taxes may be certain, but we don't have to die every year." Unknown
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. Unknown
Doing nothing gets pretty tiresome because you can't stop and rest. Unknown
Don't give other people a piece of your mind unless you can afford it. Unknown
Don't wait for your ship to come; swim out to it. Unknown
"Don't worry too much about what people think, because they seldom do." Unknown
Don't wrestle with pigs; you get dirty and they enjoy it. Unknown
Education is learning a lot about how little you know. Unknown
Education should include knowledge of what to do with it. Unknown
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. Unknown
Every person in the world is either a missionary or a mission field. Unknown
Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. Unknown
Few blame themselves until they have exhausted all other possibilities. Unknown
"Flowers are the poetry of earth, as stars are the poetry of heaven." Unknown
Footprints on the sands of time are never made by sitting down. Unknown
For people who like peace and quiet; a phoneless cord. Unknown
Foresight is knowing when to shut your mouth before someone suggests it. Unknown
Free advice generally costs more than the other kind. Unknown
Frustration is when you have ulcers but still aren't a success. Unknown
"Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you will see farther." Unknown
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. Unknown
"He was a how thinker, not an if thinker." Unknown
"He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit." Unknown
Hear the other side. Unknown
Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it. Unknown
Hyperpolysyllabicomania is a fondness for big words. Unknown
"I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck." Unknown
I wash everything on the gentle cycle. It's much more humane. Unknown
I'll always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you. Unknown
"I've tried relaxing, but - I don't know - I feel more comfortable tense." Unknown
"If God is your partner, make your plans large." Unknown
If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. Unknown
"If it isn't one thing, it's another, unless it's neither." Unknown
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done." Unknown
"If people said what they thought, most conversations would be very brief." Unknown
"If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country." Unknown
"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape." Unknown
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." Unknown
"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to expect a few blisters." Unknown
"In a negotiation, he who cares less, wins." Unknown
In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out. Unknown
Is life worth living? That depends on the liver. Unknown
It is better to how nothing than to learn nothing. Unknown
It makes no difference whether you win or lose until you lose. Unknown
It seems confusing that narrow-minded people are thick headed. Unknown
It was such a primitive country we didn't even see any joggers. Unknown
It's easy to get lost in thought if it's not familiar territory to you. Unknown
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. Unknown
Knowledge become power only when we put it into use. Unknown
Knowledge is not what the pupil remembers but what he cannot forget. Unknown
"Live not for time, but eternity." Unknown
Man has now conquered almost everything in nature except human nature. Unknown
"Many men boast of having an open mind, when it is only vacant." Unknown
Misers make wonderful ancestors. Unknown
Most people know how to keep silent but few of us know when. Unknown
My mind's made up - don't confuse me with the facts. Unknown
Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed person. Unknown
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry. Unknown
Never let your studies interfere with your education. Unknown
Never mistake endurance for hospitality. Unknown
No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work. Unknown
Nothing of importance is ever done without a plan. Unknown
Nothing relieves the monotony of a job like finding ways to improve it. Unknown
"Old mufflers never die, they just get exhausted." Unknown
Old termites never die. They just get board and lumber on. Unknown
Patience is what you require when the fish are not hungry. Unknown
Patton's Law: A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Unknown
People who can agree on what's funny can usually agree on other things. Unknown
People will believe anything if you whisper it. Unknown
Plan for today as well as for tomorrow. Unknown
Plan in marble if you would work in stone. Unknown
Plan your work. Work your plan. Unknown
Punctuality is disappointing if no one is there to appreciate it. Unknown
Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal. Unknown
"Regarding trade relations, most people would like to." Unknown
"Running is an unnatural act, except from enemies &amp; to the john." Unknown
"Science opens to us the book of nature; comedy, the book of human nature." Unknown
"Secular education can make men clever, but it cannot make them good." Unknown
Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control. Unknown
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. Unknown
So far the only successful substitute for brains is silence. Unknown
So near and yet so what? Unknown
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. Unknown
Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Unknown
Some people jump to conclusions while others dig for facts. Unknown
Some peoples heads are particularly suited to handle empty praise. Unknown
Some pursue happiness - others create it. Unknown
Someday is not a day of the week. Unknown
Sometimes we are limited more by attitude than by opportunities. Unknown
Sometimes we miss happiness by looking too far for things nearby. Unknown
"Spellers of the world, untie!" Unknown
Stand still and silently watch the world go by - and it will. Unknown
Strategy is when you run out of ammunition but keep firing anyway. Unknown
Success comes before work only in the dictionary. Unknown
Success is more dependent on the backbone than the wishbone. Unknown
Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. Unknown
The beginning of wisdom is silence. The second step is listening. Unknown
The best way to bluff is to keep your mouth shut. Unknown
The biggest block to any man's success is in his head. Unknown
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. Unknown
The closest anyone ever comes to perfection is on a job application form. Unknown
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Unknown
The fire of glory is the torch of the mind. Unknown
The foolish and the dead are the only ones who never change their opinion. Unknown
The hardest work is being idle. Unknown
The heart of education is the education of the heart. Unknown
The inability to make a decision has often been passed off as patience. Unknown
The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep. Unknown
The most effective answer to an insult is silence. Unknown
The nicest thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Unknown
The person who sings his own praise is probably a soloist. Unknown
The person who thinks too little usually talks too much. Unknown
The person with nothing to do always gives it his personal attention. Unknown
The relationship of editor to author is knife to throat. Unknown
The shortest distance between two points is usually under repair. Unknown
The silver lining is always easier to find in someone else's cloud. Unknown
The tanned appearance of many Londoners is not a sunburn- it is rust. Unknown
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure &amp; success. Unknown
The way to kill time profitably is to work it to death. Unknown
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the first to be replaced. Unknown
There are so many ways of being a fool that it's hard to avoid them all. Unknown
There is a difference between a reason that sounds good and good reason. Unknown
There is no right way to do a wrong thing. Unknown
There is nothing like sealing a letter to inspire a fresh thought. Unknown
Those who are afraid of doing too much always do too little. Unknown
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. Unknown
"To err is human, but it is against company policy." Unknown
"To get nowhere, follow the crowd." Unknown
"To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight." Unknown
"To have more, desire less." Unknown
To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth. Unknown
Today's mighty oak is yesterday's little nut that held its ground. Unknown
Torture the data long enough and they will confess to anything. Unknown
Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones. Unknown
We generally admire the wisdom of those who come to us for advice. Unknown
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did. Unknown
"What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning." Unknown
"When a person is always right, there is something wrong." Unknown
"When the going seems easy, you may be going downhill." Unknown
"When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains." Unknown
Why is there so much month left at the end of the month? Unknown
Wisdom consists of letting the non-essentials pass by. Unknown
Worry takes as much time as work and pays less. Unknown
"You can lead a car to a highway, but you can't make it think." Unknown
You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first. Unknown
You never have to worry about contradictions when you stick to the facts. Unknown
"You're entitled to your own opinion, even if it is wrong." Unknown
You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit. Ronald Reagan
"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
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth. La Rochefoucauld
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
"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
"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
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. Anwar El-Sadat
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. St. Francis De Sales
"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
"It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date." George Bernard Shaw
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Our lives are like a candle in the wind. Carl Sandburg
"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
"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"
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. Roy L. Smith
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Sophocles
A short saying often contains much wisdom. Sophocles
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
"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
"It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." Charles H. Spurgeon
"Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood." Laurence Sterne
"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
"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
"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
"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
"I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work." Robert Louis Stevenson
Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Jonathan Swift
Beware the fury of a patient man. Publius Syrus
You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. Publius Syrus
"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
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." William M. Thackeray
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
"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
"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 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
"Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled." Henry David Thoreau
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. Henry David Thoreau
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy
"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
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
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Mark Twain
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. 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
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
Progress is not created by contented people. Frank Tyger
Fortune favors the bold. Virgil
Each man is led by his own liking. Virgil
Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. Vincent Voiture
Le sens commun n'est pas si commun Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire
The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; The realist adjusts the sails. George Bernard Shaw
"Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; it is better to be alone than in bad company." George Washington
The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer. Thomas J. Watson
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H.G. Wells
It matters not how many fish are in the sea . . . if you don't have any bait on your hook. Dial West
Everything important has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. Alfred North Whitehead
Punctuality is the thief of time. Oscar Wilde
"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
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness. Bern Williams
Not doing more than average is what keeps the average down. William Winans
Ability is a poor man's wealth. M. Wren
Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. John D. Wright
Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." Addison
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
"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
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.
"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.
Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one. Anon.
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others. Anon.
Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves. Anon.
"Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us." Anon.
Well done is better than well said. Anon.
Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead. Anon.
"Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate." Anon.
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. Janos Arany
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. Aristotle
"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain." Marcus Aurelius
You teach best what you most need to learn. Richard Bach
"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
"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope." Josh Billings
"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
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Wernher von Braun
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" Robert Browning
"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
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Buddha
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. Buddha
The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"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
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
"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
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle
"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
"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
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman. Willa Cather
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. Miguel de Cervantes
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." Allan K. Chalmers
"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone." Winston Churchill
"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
Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you." Colette
"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
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Confucius
A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. Confucius
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence and determination. Calvin Coolidge
To win without risk is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have. Coleman Cox
There are no athiests in foxholes. William T. Cummings
"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
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination. John Dewey
"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
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Benjamin Disraeli
Through perserverence many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. Benjamin Disraeli
"A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better." Benjamin Disraeli
"Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes." John Donne
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the more important. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"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
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 pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein
"I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones." A. 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
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
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 successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skill to do comes of doing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is a progress, and not a station." Ralph Waldo Emerson
To fill the hour-that is happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary." Emmanuel
"It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." Silvan Engel
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
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. Harvey Firestone
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. Fontenelle
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
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." Anatole France
Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. Benjamin Franklin
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. Benjamin Franklin
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost
"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help." Thomas Fuller
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. Thomas Fuller
Better hazard once than always be in fear. Thomas Fuller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Buckminster Fuller
Dare to be naive. Buckminster Fuller
You cannot teach a man anything.; you can only help him to find it for himself. Galileo Galilei
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Gandhi
"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
"Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown." Charles de Gaulle
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. Edward Gibbon
"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
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
"Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Goethe
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action. Goethe
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." Goethe
"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people. Nor for others, easier." Baltasar Gracian
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Grahm Greene
"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you are not." Unknown
"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. " Unknown