It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution.
The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising
strides.
-- George Sand
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the
only animal that is never satisfied.
-- Henry George
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those
with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
-- Bethania McKenstry
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
-- Gian Vincenzo Gravina
As you sit on the hillside,
or lie prone under the trees of the forest,
or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream,
the great door,
that does not look like a door,
opens.
Stephen Graham, 1884-1975
British Travel Writer and Novelist
Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
-- Unknown
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person
you were intended to be.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-- Aesop
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks
right out of the bottle.
-- Henny Youngman
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only
limitations those of libel.
-- James Thurber
I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.
-- Kevin Rose, Diggnation, Our Lip Dub Is Better Than Yours, 2008
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a
happy state in this world.
-- John Locke
If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes
turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be
particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are
full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll
divulge it.
-- Joyce Carol Oates
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
-- Christopher Morley
Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is
finished, the subject reaveals itself.
-- William Baziotes
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee
-- that will do them in.
-- Bradley's Bromide
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you
stop laughing.
-- Michael Pritchard
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all
things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be
artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
-- Shelley Winters
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to
pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope
my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
-- Tom Hanks
What you are doing is not nearly as important
as how you feel about what you are doing.
Clifton Burke
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery guided
by a private chart of which there is no duplicate. The world is all
gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
(Hoist your sails, mate!)
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
-- John D. Rockefeller
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
-- George Eliot
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
-- Albert Camus
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
-- Oscar Levant
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government
and business.
-- Tom Robbins
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without
changing a single idea.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given,
for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this
protection.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
-- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, pg. 1 line 3-4
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have
control over what you do.
-- A. J. Kitt
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
-- Professor Irwin Corey
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish,
and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're
a consultant.
-- Scott Adams, Dogbert; Dilbert cartoons
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
-- Henrik Tikkanen
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that
is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he
gets to know something.
-- Wilson Mizner
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if
you find yourself up there.
-- Fred Allen, in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on
a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the
clouds float across the sky is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbuck, 1834-1913
(Smell the flowers.)
Remember This One?
"Sometimes
the most important thing
in a whole day
is the rest we take
between two deep breaths."
- Etty Hillesum
The road to success is not straight.
There is a curve called Failure,
A loop called Confusion,
Speed bumps called Friends,
Red lights called Enemies,
Caution lights called Family,
You will have flats called Jobs,
But, if you have a spare called Determination,
An engine called Perseverance,
Insurance called Faith,
A driver called God,
You will make it to a place called Success.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
-- Bernard Berenson
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
-- Sir Richard Steele
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete
use of the other five.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
-- George Iles
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.
-- Zach Braff
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
-- Jewish Proverb
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Journals,' 1836
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.
-- Walker Percy
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and
thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble
through as well as I can.
-- Og Mandino
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is
most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
-- Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him
to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I
have of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson
A friend is a second self.
-- Aristotle
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone
else is driving.
-- David Letterman
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
-- Ray Bradbury
Living in a vacuum sucks.
-- Adrienne E. Gusoff
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
-- Chester Bowles
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being
anything else.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, speech at the Lord Mayor's
banquet, London, November 9, 1954
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
-- M. C. Escher
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
-- Rita Rudner
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot
to the town gossip.
-- Will Rogers
Love has no place in a lawyer's office.
-- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national
emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
-- Ronald Reagan
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's
safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
-- Unknown
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by
faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own
merits.
-- Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is
to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Butler
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
-- Arab Proverb
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must
wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the
remains of it.
-- Samuel Johnson
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions
myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
-- Sylvia Plath
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
-- Amy Bloom
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery
of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power. -Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician
(1809-1894)
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. -Michael Pollan, author,
journalism professor (b. 1955)
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an
evening with an insurance salesman?
-- Woody Allen
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls
and looks like work.
-- Thomas A. Edison
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
-- E. B. White
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you
would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If
you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
-- Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
-- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
-- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of
suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest
on pure joy!
-- Louise Bogan
I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in
a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than
others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched
in my mind.
-- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like
the future you are dreaming.
Alice Walker
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that
questions has little healing in its touch. -Edith Wharton, novelist
(1862-1937)
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the
rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly
incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of
memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is
sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so
bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond
control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of
recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror
that reflects it.
-- Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone,
but they've always worked for me.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
-- A. Whitney Brown
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have
nothing whatever to do with it.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between
the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison
we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our
nothingness.
-- Andre Malraux
Life belongs to those who dare to live.
Author Unknown
But Very Much Appreciated!
(Carpe diem! ;-)
People lose their health to make money;
then lose their money to restore their health.
By thinking anxiously about the future,
they forget their present such that
they live neither for the present nor the future.
They live as if they will never die,
and they die as if they have never lived.
Take each day as it comes, and live each day to the fullest.
Dig where the gold is…unless you just need some exercise.
-- John M. Capozzi, Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You
Can Take the Elevator?
Honor does not have to be defended.
-- Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps
only some formula of peace.
-- Joseph Conrad
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
-- Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
There is one grand lie - that we are limited.
The only limits we have are the limits we believe.
Dr. Wayne Dyer
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to
see it tried on him personally.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work
out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
-- Mickey Rooney
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
-- Dave Barry
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
-- Philip K. Dick, What the Dead Men Say, 1954
Why g3's "savour the means, forget the ends" theory is right?
First, I was dying to finish my high school and start college.
And then I was dying to finish college and start working.
Then I was dying to marry and have children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so I could go
back to work.
But then I was dying to retire.
And now I'm dying. Suddenly I realized that I forgot to live.
Don't let this happen to you. Appreciate your present situation.
Enjoy each day.
The Wisdom of g3!
Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.
-- Robert Townsend
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it -
had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
-- Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make
life worth living.
-- Mary Tyler Moore
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
-- Dianne Houston, Take The Lead, 2006
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those
who dream only by night.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
-- Eric Hoffer
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not
discover it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he
always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all
men were Nazis. -Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer, Nobel laureate,
(1904-1991)
Just for today I will try to live through this day only, and not
tackle all my problems at once.
Just for today I will be happy. This assumes to be true what Abraham
Lincoln said, that "Most folks are as happy as they make up their
minds to be."
Just for today I will adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust
everything to my own desires, I will take my "luck" as it comes, and
fit myself to it.
Just for today I will try to strengthen my mind. I will study. I will
learn something useful. I will not be a mental loafer. I will read
something that requires effort, thought and concentration.
Just for today I won't find fault with anything, nor try to improve or
regulate anybody but myself.
Just for today I will have a quiet half hour all by myself, and relax.
Just for today I will be unafraid. Especially I will not be afraid to
enjoy what is beautiful, and to believe that as I give to the world,
so the world will give to me.
Author Unknown
But Very Much Appreciated!
I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do
not preserve myself. -Jose Ortega Y Gasset, philosopher and essayist
(1883-1955)
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
-- Cecil B. DeMille
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only
when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or
something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be
that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living
pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up
with a long haired stoner.
-- Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence.
When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice.
The choice is makin' you.
-- Mark Steven Johnson, Ghostrider, 2007
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in
order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries, "The Mackerel Plaza," 1958
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
-- Peter York
The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
-- Alex Levin
If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words,
'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult
to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.
-- Eddie Izzard, Dress To Kill
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
-- John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
-- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
-- George Burns
May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.
-- Sara June Parker
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin in "The Search for Signs of
Intelligent Life in the Universe"
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations.
When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is
wrong.
-- George Carlin
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared
to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
-- Havelock Ellis
"Compassion, even towards one's enemies, is a sign of nobleness and
spiritual perfection." - Ostad Elahi
No human thing is of serious importance.
-- Plato
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say
"I want to see the manager."
-- William S. Burroughs
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
-- Evan Esar
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
-- Russell Baker
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
-- Frank Dane
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where
they're going and hook up with them later.
-- Mitch Hedberg, Mitch All Together
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I
can appreciate persistence. -Hal Borland, journalist (1900-1978)
After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that
brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'
-- Ronnie Shakes
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S Truman
Why be a man when you can be a success?
-- Bertolt Brecht
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
-- Aristotle
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact
that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
-- H. G. Wells
When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.
-- Paul Brown
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of
folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief,
and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of
idleness.
-- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
-- John Maynard Keynes
Be secure in the knowledge that you can deal with anything that
happens to you. Have the courage to bet on your ideas. Take some
calculated risks and act on your dreams. There is no permanent
security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Author Unknown
But Very Much Appreciated!
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to
break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
-- Saint Francis de Sales
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness
of character.
-- Grenville Kleiser
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
-- Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, / Finds tongues in trees,
books in the running brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in
everything. -William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it,
and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden
to itself.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through
the dust no matter how thick.
-- Bob Dylan
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do
nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again
and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent,
you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
-- Isaac Asimov
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what
do they need you for?
-- Bernadette Peters, Inside the Actors Studio
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which
will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
-- Evelyn Waugh
Any American who is prepared to run for president should
automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
-- Gore Vidal
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really
dishonest kind of advertising that's left.
-- David M. Ogilvy
There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing
through... There needs to be a monster truck option.
-- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content #1356, 03-10-09
Great spirit of our Ancestors, I raise my pipe to You;
To your messengers in the four winds, and
to Mother Earth who provides for your children.
Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,
to respect, and to be kind to each other,
so that they may grow with peace in mind.
Let us learn to share all good things
that You provide.
Native American Prayer
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly,
one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
-- William H. Sheldon
I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the
thousands out there marked 'Occupant.'
-- Unknown
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not
quite all the time.
-- George Orwell
Once you believe in yourself
and see your soul as divine and precious,
you'll automatically be converted
to a being who can create miracles.
Dr. Wayne Dyer
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his
creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short,
who is but a reflection of human frailty. -Albert Einstein, physicist,
Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
-- Dale Carnegie
My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.
-- Rita Rudner
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
-- Scott Adams
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if
he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
-- Sir Francis Bacon
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the
greatest and only safety in a sane society.
-- Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should
never remember it.
-- Pierre Charron
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you
aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a
kneecap off the world.
-- Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and
destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest
but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of
one beautiful form into another. -John Muir, Naturalist and explorer
(1838-1914)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-- Plato
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way
in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
-- Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
-- Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance
we have to cover still lies within us.
-- Charles de Gaulle
The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings
left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the
King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
-- King Farouk of Egypt, 1948
The future will be better tomorrow.
-- Dan Quayle
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing
that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot
possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to
get at or repair.
-- Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
-- Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
Memories are interpreted like dreams. -Leo Longanesi, journalist and
editor (1905-1957)
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and
friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].
-- William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
Never give a child a sword.
-- Latin Proverb
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that
man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
-- The Work of the Chariot
I think when I work 14 hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
-- Armand Hammer
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
-- Claud Cockburn
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience
and Laziness.
-- Franz Kafka
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and
discovering that she looks like a haddock.
-- John Barrymore
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just
as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
-- Bertrand Russell
Remember This One?
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and
friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].
-- William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
Never give a child a sword.
-- Latin Proverb
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that
man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
-- The Work of the Chariot
I think when I work 14 hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
-- Armand Hammer
Take hold of your own life.
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These trees are not serious,
these birds are not serious.
The rivers and the oceans are wild,
and everywhere there is fun,
everywhere there is joy and delight.
Watch existence,
listen to the existence
and become part of it.
- Osho
Though I have been trained as a soldier, and participated in many
battles, there never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could
not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. I look forward to an
epoch when a court, recognized by all nations, will settle
international differences. -Ulysses S. Grant, military commander, 18th
US President (1822-1885)
I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.
-- Anonymous, French slogan
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
-- W. C. Fields
If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
-- Max L. Forman
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
-- Mario Puzo, 'The Godfather'
I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
- Samuel Goldwyn
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
-- Edgar Bergen, (Charlie McCarthy)
'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you
that I'm not, be the next victim?'
'Well, that would be a start.'
-- Peter Stone, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade", 1963
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our
lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
-- Robert Orben
I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
-- Queen Juliana, of the Netherlands
There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps
for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.
Kurt Hahn, 1886-1974
German-born 'Experiential' Educator
(See it.)
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against
cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will
have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience
when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to
vex your mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
-- Frank A. Clark
Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.
-- Jim Morrison
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
-- Dave Barry
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
-- Friedrich von Schiller
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
-- Larry Gelbart
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
-- Ogden Nash
Even God cannot change the past.
-- Agathon
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle
yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are
disbelieved.
-- Michel de Montaigne
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
-- Friedrich von Schiller
Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.
-- Thomas a Kempis
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
-- Jules Feiffer
The average person thinks he isn't.
-- Father Larry Lorenzoni
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and
therefore never scrutinize or question.
-- Stephen Jay Gould
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting
anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't
want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
-- Madonna, O Magazine, January 2004
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
-- C. S. Lewis
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.
-- Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, The Real Me, 2001
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do
nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
-- Bob Hope
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some
poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning,
middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking
the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to
happen next. Delicious ambiguity. -Gilda Radner -actress and comedian
(1946-1989)
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
-- Clarence Thomas
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit
of his character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
-- Piet Mondrian
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health
is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
-- Ernest Hemingway
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the
animosities he excites among his opponents.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
-- Ferdinand Foch
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
-- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in
fact, barely presentable.
-- Fran Lebowitz
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as
it is apt to lead to infidelity. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
(1809-1865)
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which
seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
-- A. E. Housman
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact
that they believe in something, use that something to support their
own existence.
-- Frank Zappa
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises
from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and
dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays
quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly,
naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't.
You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a
mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
-- Kathleen Norris
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
-- Henry Winkler
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
-- Louisa May Alcott
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
-- Denis Diderot
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are
a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. -Jean Rostand,
biologist and philosopher (1894-1977)
'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
-- Malaclypse the Younger
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he
uses to frighten you.
-- Eric Hoffer
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
-- Philip Johnson
Only the shallow know themselves.
-- Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the
Young, 1882
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and
madness gotten finer?
-- George Price
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
-- Colette, in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
-- Abraham Lincoln
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
-- Saint Augustine
A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library.
-- Westheimer's Discovery
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be
the designated driver.
-- Jay Leno
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
-- Colette, in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A
widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious
reason that he has read too widely.
-- Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction
I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has
data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead
of theories to suit facts.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except
wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the
grapes were good in the first place.
-- Abigail Van Buren, 1978
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
-- Euripides, 438 B.C.
We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable. -H.R. McMaster,
Brigadier General, US Army, Iraq War veteran (b. 1962) [Actually Brig.
Gen. was talking about PowerPoint]
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the
achievement of one's values.
-- Ayn Rand
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not
too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises
his level of aspiration.
-- Kurt Lewin
You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral
imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single
words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen.
Choose. Act.
-- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
A gun gives you the body, not the bird. -Henry David Thoreau,
naturalist and author (1817-1862)
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings
that are actually being reached for.
-- Barbara Mikkelson, snopes.com, May 15, 2001
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
-- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as
easily as we open and shut our eyes!
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-- Isaac Asimov
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Parents and Children (1914)
"Children's Happiness"
Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again; skinned knees are easier
to fix than broken hearts. -Anonymous
Its Madness -
To hate all roses, because you got scratched by one thorn.
To give up all your dreams, because one did not come true.
To lose faith in prayers, because one was not answered.
To give up on your efforts, because one of them failed.
To condemn all your friends, because one of them betrayed.
Not to believe in love, because someone was unfaithful.
Remember that, another chance may come up.
A new friend, A new love, A new life.
Never give up on anything!
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should
survey the world.
-- George Santayana
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a
single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
-- Buddha
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are
synonymous with manliness.
-- Kent Nerburn
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
-- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything
with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he
said, 'Do I know you?'
-- Steven Wright
1. Never tell everything at once.
-- Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
-- Harry S Truman, in Look, Apr. 3, 1956
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.
-- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden
rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
-- Mark Twain
The best mirror is an old friend.
-- George Herbert, 1651
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species
wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the
universe or themselves.
-- Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
-- Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
-- Heywood Broun
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and
wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
-- George Burns
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be
cynical about it.
-- Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world
knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt
with.
Michael Jackson, 1958-2009
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
-- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely
miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite
certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the
present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we
often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for
the worse.
-- Benjamin Franklin
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
-- Rodney Dangerfield
People are like stained glass windows.
When the sun is shining through them, they glow brightly and sparkle.
But when the sun goes down, and it is dark and gloomy outside;
Their true beauty is revealed - only if there is light from within.
Know people by what they are from inside;
And not by what they appear from out.
The death of dogma is the birth of morality. -Immanuel Kant,
philosopher (1724-1804)
We're all in this alone.
-- Lily Tomlin
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though
it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost
certain to be false.
-- Paul Valery
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day,
something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one
else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always
part of unanimity.
-- Christopher Morley
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
-- William Gibson
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give
without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without
meanness.
-- George Sand
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget;
the wise forgive but do not forget.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"
Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way.
-- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed
Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the
necessary may speak.
-- Hans Hoffman
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player
plays where the puck is going to be.
-- Wayne Gretzky
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good,
in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
-- Robert Graves
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
-- John Ruskin
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
-- Voltaire
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not
know what can't be done.
-- Henry Ford
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
-- Czech Proverb
Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7,
beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up
the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to
is a chance to change the world...
-- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a
little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your
own.
-- Arnold Bennett
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow
in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
-- Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
-- Henry J. Kaiser
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell
the truth wherever I please.
-- Mother Jones
Hope is necessary in every condition.
-- Samuel Johnson
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
-- Jane Caminos
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
-- Peter Ustinov
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by
men who express their real opinions. -Robert G. Ingersoll, lawyer and
orator (1833-1899)
There are two things a person should never be angry about: what they
can help, and what they cannot.
Plato, 428-348 B.C.
Classical Greek Philosopher and Mathematician
(Thank you Mr. Plato! ;-)
"Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They
are all your teachers, each doing just the right thing to help you
learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion." - Author
Unknown
Howard Nemerov - "A teacher is a person who never says anything once."
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. -George
Marshall, US Army Chief, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense,
Nobel laureate (1880-1959)
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can
change the outer aspects of their lives.
-- William James
This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to
improve your work.
-- Bette Davis
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
-- Scottish Proverb
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon
itself to its master passion.
-- Rebecca West
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years
without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be
admired in sheep.
-- Alan Patrick Herbert
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted
Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to
give up power.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent,
common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
-- George Santayana
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I
dare a little more as I grow older. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist
(1533-1592)
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same,
without such opinion, despair.
-- Thomas Hobbes
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the
subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only
set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
-- Eckhart Tolle
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
-- Raymond Lindquist
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
-- Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
-- Henry Miller
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest
desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest
ways, improve yourself.
-- John Ruskin
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-- Hugh Prather
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same
oven. -Yiddish proverb
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If
you're alive, it isn't. -Richard Bach, writer (b. 1936)
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
-- Oscar Wilde
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the
mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
-- Krishnamurti
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
-- William Blake
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like
less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an
apostrophe with fur.
-- Doug Larson
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a
lamppost how it feels about dogs.
-- Christopher Hampton
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on
the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom,
life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an
ecstasy.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1897-1981
Indian Spiritual Teacher (Keep it simple. ;-)
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives, and few are able
to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. -Voltaire,
philosopher (1694-1778)
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
-- Spanish Proverb
Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.
-- Marya Mannes
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
-- George Herbert
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other
person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal
attacks.
-- Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all
schools of art.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you
mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
-- Dalton Camp
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to
comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that
you really understand. -Jules Verne, science fiction author
(1828-1905)
"I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr
Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit
rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under
John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help
feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper
for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty
cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism."
J.K. Rowling; The Single Mother's Manifesto; The Times (London, UK);
Apr 14, 2010.
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To
the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get
worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better.
To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make
things better.
-- King Whitney Jr.
An honor is not diminished for being shared.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful,
reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They
can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.
-- Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask a Ninja, Question
55, 10-03-07
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the
exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper
I'm a jerk to everyone. Best way to protect yourself from lawsuits.
-- David Hoselton, House M.D., Guardian Angels, 2007
If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down
or stand up to Him. -Rebecca West, author and journalist (1892-1983)
Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
-- Andy Rooney
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
-- H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Live forever or die in the attempt.
-- Joseph Heller, Catch 22
If you want to know how rich you are, just count up all the things you
have that money cannot buy.
Author Unknown
But Very Much Appreciated!
(Enjoy your treasures. ;-)
Everybody does better, when everybody does better.
Jim Hightower (Quoting his father)
(Lend a hand to your fellow man.)
Remember This One?
"We travel together as passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on
its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety
to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the
care, the work, and I'll say the love we give our fragile craft. We
cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident,
half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies of man, half free
in liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no
crew can travel safely with such contradictions. On their resolution
depends the survival of us all." - Adlai Stevenson
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
-- Albert Camus
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
-- Noel Coward
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to
earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of
four.
-- Katharine Hepburn
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
-- Frank Zappa
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Actions lie louder than words.
-- Carolyn Wells
The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not
in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.
-- Franklin P. Jones
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they
have used to acquire it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all
at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
-- Anonymous
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off
their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
-- Mark Twain
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn
how to do it.
-- Pablo Picasso
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are
smarter than they are.
-- R. H. Grant
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread
with one, and a lily with the other.
-- Chinese Proverb
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
-- Mahatma Gandhi, 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know
they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
-- Nancy Spain
The best time to plant a tree... was twenty years ago. The second best
time, is today.
Chinese Proverb
(Be the change.)
Memory feeds imagination.
-- Amy Tan
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but
cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
-- Michael J. Fox, in "Saving Milly" by Morton Kondrake
Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.
-- Stella Terrill Mann
You can tell how big a person is by how much it takes to discourage them.
Author Unknown
But Very Much Appreciated!
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a
nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
-- George Bernard Shaw, "You Never Can Tell" (1898), act I
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got
the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
-- Peter Ustinov
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
-- Errol Flynn
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
-- Bill Watterson, Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but
the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
-- Eric Hoffer
I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I’m
discovering that things were never in my hands.
-- Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 2, 2003
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who
will never be able to repay you.
-- John Wooden
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
-- Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or
worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.
-- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 5, 08-22-04
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in
gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. -Carl Sagan,
astronomer and writer (1934-1996)
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an
experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to
succeed as myself.
-- Margaret Cho, I'm The One That I Want, 1999
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
-- Thomas A. Edison
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a
damn fool of himself.
-- John Ciardi
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-- Robert Frost
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.
-- Henry Ford
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
-- Douglas Adams
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm
frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage
I didn't really say everything I said.
-- Yogi Berra
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
-- William Shakespeare
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel
from coast to coast without seeing anything.
-- Charles Kuralt
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell
more than he knows.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the
significance of a clean desk?
-- Laurence J. Peter
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
-- William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should
not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
-- John Ruskin
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to
reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their
purposes.
-- Henry Kissinger
How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
-- Fred Brooks
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
-- Brock Chisholm
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
-- William Saroyan
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
There are more of them than us.
-- Herb Caen
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
-- Frank Zappa
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance
to do something stupid.
-- Art Spander
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us,
with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of
smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
-- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of
the legislator for the prevention of crime. -John Ruskin, author, art
critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)
A couple of months in the laboratory can save a couple of hours in the
library. -Frank H. Westheimer, chemistry professor (1912-2007)
Children are all foreigners.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most
revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
-- George C. Marshall
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to
true happiness.
-- Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same
people on the way down.
-- Wilson Mizner
I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type
of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be
judgmental.
-- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The miracle is not to fly in the air,
or to walk on the water,
but to walk on the earth."
-- Chinese Proverb.
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds
for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the
world that really counts.
Anne of Green Gables
As Written by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs
of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having
accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Arnold Bennett
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
-- Woodrow Wilson
That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and
then they get up and leave us behind.
-- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,
Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
-- Albert Camus, Happy Death
There's no business like show business, but there are several
businesses like accounting.
-- David Letterman
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Everything you can imagine is real.
-- Pablo Picasso
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
-- David Richerby
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
-- Jacques Delille
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to
appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment
until it's passed.
-- Kanye West
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so
short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute;
and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place
to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by
taxi.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for
the wrong reason.
-- T. S. Eliot
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
-- Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01-15-04
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
-- Sir Thomas Beecham
In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count
that votes.
-- Mogens Jallberg
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a
star gone wrong.
-- Sir Arthur Eddington
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than
three men, two of whom are absent.
-- Robert Copeland
Think that it's fun, that you're guided,
and that all is well.
Think that there's time, that life is easy,
and that the best is yet to come.
Think that the reasons that elude you
will one day catch up,
that the lessons that have stumped you
will one day bring joy,
and that the sorrows that have crippled you
will soon give you wings.
Think that you're important, that you cannot fail,
and that happiness always returns.
And think that you're beautiful.
Mike Dooley
Throughout this toilsome world, alas!
Once and only once I pass;
If a kindness I may show,
If a good deed I may do
To a suffering fellow man,
Let me do it while I can.
No delay, for it is plain
I shall not pass this way again.
Author Unknown
But Very Much Appreciated!
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary
evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less
evil. -Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986)
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
-- Ronald Reagan, quoted in Observer, March 29 1981
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can
never learn anything from history.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's
too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
-- George Iles
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be
charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
-- William Hutton
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you
nothing. It was here first.
-- Mark Twain
Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
-- Moses Ibn Ezra, Shirat Yisrael
I stand in awe of my body.
-- Henry David Thoreau
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace
unless he has his freedom.
-- Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
-- Willa Cather
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with
the same person.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
-- Steve Jobs
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
-- David Russell
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
-- Quentin Crisp
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human
malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and
stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of
religous or political ideas.
-- Aldous Huxley
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a
dose of common sense. -Chapman Cohen, author and lecturer (1868-1954)
Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of
awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and
others.
David R. Hawkins
(Be love.)
Weeds are flowers too,
once you get to know them.
A. A. Milne, 1882-1956
English Author and Poet
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the
importance of turning around three times before lying down.
-- Robert Benchley
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
-- Sinclair Lewis
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
-- Samuel Johnson, (attributed)
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says
something about human nature that the only form of life we have
created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own
image.
-- Stephen Hawking
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
-- Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue
happiness you'll never find it.
-- C. P. Snow
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that
the same place isn't there the second time.
-- Willie Tyler
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will
have to ram it down their throats.
-- Howard Aiken
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result
happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty
pound ought and six, result misery.
-- Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot
do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
-- Cyrus H. Curtis
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the
higher achievement.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
-- David Letterman
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
-- Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
-- Robin Morgan
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be
surprised at how little you have.
-- Ernest Haskins
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
-- Lynda Barry
Plutarch - "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
Never give up! Where your strength ends, God's grace begins! :))
favouritest favourite>
Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
-- Colleen Wainwright, communitcatrix, 04-10-2006
Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.
-- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,
Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
-- Charles Darwin
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
-- Carl Sandburg, Incidentals (1907)
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
-- Luis Bunuel
"Gwyneth Paltrow summed up her weltanschauung thus: 'My life is good
because I am not passive about it.'"
Richard Dorment; Gwyneth Paltrow Feels Good -- And So Can You; Esquire
(New York); Sep 16, 2009.
Wilson Mizner - "God help those who do not help themselves."
People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and
uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it
with certainty, boldness and confidence.
Jack Canfield
"Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom." - C. H. Spurgeon
(Wishing you a bold and beautiful day! ;-)
Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder
for what you want.
-- Robert Bringle, quoted in Redbook
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
-- Roberto Benigni, in Newsweek
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place
and time, is in balance with everything else.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
-- Jane Goodall
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
-- John Tudor
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
-- Edith Sitwell
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
-- George Santayana
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
-- Sir William Osler
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
-- Elayne Boosler
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
-- Henry David Thoreau
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from
one graveyard to another.
-- J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England", 1945
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in
terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
-- H. L. Mencken
Hitch your wagon to a star.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "American Civilization", The
Atlantic Monthly, 1862
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything
else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations
bend to that one objective.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957
There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
-- H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words
unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book
begins The rest is still unwritten
-- Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on
what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.
Marianne Williamson
Spiritual Activist, Author and Lecturer
(Think the good thoughts!)
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with
different intents. -Peter Mere Latham, physician and educator
(1789-1875)
I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the
government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of
somebody who says, "I'm in favor of privatization," or, "I'm deeply in
favor of public ownership." I'm in favor of whatever works in the
particular case. -John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein
Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because
there's a seeker born every minute.
-- Firesign Theatre
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable,
you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left
is a compromise.
-- Robert Fritz
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the
expression of opinions that we loathe.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well.
Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.
-- Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for
the forty-eight.
-- Margaret Thatcher
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
-- Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
-- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010
I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel. -Terry Pratchett,
novelist (b. 1948)
The little plans I tried to carry have failed O'Dear God.
But, I will not sorrow. I will pause a little while and try again tomorrow.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
-- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea,
please bring me some coffee.
-- Abraham Lincoln
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.
-- Evan Esar
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes
when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.
-- Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03-20-05
People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one
another from day to day - even hour to hour.
-- Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
-- W. C. Fields
All phone calls are obscene.
-- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
-- Nick Diamos
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for
science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and
probably wrong.
-- Richard Feynman
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be
given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The
money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it.
But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
-- Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he
exercises over himself.
-- Elie Wiesel
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with
sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
-- Robert Southey
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy
idling, dawdling and puttering.
-- Brenda Ueland
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand
like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were
born.
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
Theoretical Physicist, Author and Philosopher
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
-- Groucho Marx
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
-- David T. Wolf
Love can be sordid only if you work at it.
-- Brooke McEldowney, 9 Chickweed Lane, 05-10-2006
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it
survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. -Wangari Muta
Maathai, activist and Nobel laureate (b. 1940)
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to
tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent
when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer
flow into our souls.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
-- Benjamin Franklin
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
-- Mother Teresa
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions,
never know too much to learn something new.
-- Og Mandino
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even
supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be
content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to
acquire it.
-- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them
deliberately.
-- Michel de Montaigne
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong--
or absolutely right.
-- Albert Guinon
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
-- Flannery O'Connor
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their
hearts they know it is right. But, they hesitate, waiting for the
other fellow to make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.
The minute a person dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way,
many others follow.
Marian Anderson, 1897-1993
(Make your move. ;-)
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but
because people refuse to see it. -James Albert Michener, novelist
(1907-1997)
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one
cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get
if you don't.
-- Pete Seeger
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of
people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough
bookshelves.
-- Anna Quindlen
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves
and how little we think of the other person.
-- Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve
honestly is to steal with good judgment.
-- Josh Billings
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Some days, it’s not about passion and courage. It’s not about heroism
and drama. It’s not about slaying dragons or conjuring exotic
visions... Some days, it's simply about the delicious act of doing
simple things, simply.
Jack Ricchiuto
(Wishing you a 'delicious' day! ;-)
In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the
thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but
frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the
Sleeping Beauty. -Owen Barfield, author (1898-1997)
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can
nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
-- Adelle Davis
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
-- David Starr Jordan
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
-- Edna Buchanan
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give
you power and privacy.
-- Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent
it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of
us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator. -Marcel
Proust, novelist (1871-1922)
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many
rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
-- Ronald Reagan
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those
who hate them.
-- Emile Chartier
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but
also to hate his friends.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your
talent to people who have none.
-- Jules Renard
Ted Turner - "Sports is like a war without the killing."
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
-- Plato
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be
reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has
not already been said by one philosopher or another.
-- Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on
the roof and gets stuck.
-- George Carlin
I improve on misquotation.
-- Cary Grant
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
-- George Bernard Shaw
One cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in
doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National
Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
Regimen is superior to medicine.
-- Voltaire
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An
inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
-- G. K. Chesterton
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by
means of language.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor
by taking up another.
-- Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of
scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is
already settled.
-- Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
-- Unknown
A witty saying proves nothing.
-- Voltaire
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
-- Artemus Ward
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
-- Madeleine L'Engle
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own
problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to
you.
-- Lady Bird Johnson
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.
-- Fred Allen
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we
shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot
do.
-- Samuel Butler
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
-- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many',
and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
-- Larry Hardiman
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist,
it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing
standard of nonconformity.
-- Bill Vaughan
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence
of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
-- Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of
Intellectual Rubbish"
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for
anyone else. -Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870)
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
-- Arab Proverb
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the
present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
-- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this?
Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I
will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for
it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way;
yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome
happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it
opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I
will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
Og Mandino
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort
searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only
in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you
cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find
time to set about it is as...to put off eating and drinking and
sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
Og Mandino
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath - so
what does that make today worth?
Og Mandino
First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with
only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they
wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate
yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able
to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say
and do need never influence what you think and say and do.
Og Mandino
Samuel Goldwyn - "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right,
but I am never wrong."
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or
whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease
your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
Og Mandino, 1923-1996
American Author and Inspirational Speaker
(Smile for a while. ;-)
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in
the roller of an electric typewriter?
-- Woody Allen
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
-- Dame Rose Macaulay
The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his
patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.
-- Will Rogers
Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate
now, don't put it off.
-- Ellen DeGeneres
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
-- Susan J. Bissonette
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,
a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives
you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
-- Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
Friends are born, not made.
-- Henry Adams
Little by little, one travels far.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get
into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and
hotels and baggage and chatter. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and
writer (1838-1914)
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you
really need.
-- Vernon Howard
One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more
honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.
-- Etty Hillesum
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that
potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training.
You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
-- Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
-- Tom Stoppard
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
-- Jane Austen
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James M. Barrie
Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the
responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.
William A. Ward, 1921-1994
American Author and Poet
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they
invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their
crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
-Nikos Kazantzakis, poet and novelist (1883-1957)
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has
nobody to thank.
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
-- Billy Crystal
"For too many years my edacious reading habits had been leading me
into one unappealing corner after another, dank cul-de-sacs littered
with tear-stained diaries, empty pill bottles, bulging briefcases,
broken vows, humdrum phrases, sociological swab samples, and the
(lovely?) bones of dismembered children."
Tom Robbins; In Defiance of Gravity; Harper's (New York); Sep 2004.
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take
delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur
or feathers? -Joseph Wood Krutch, writer and naturalist (1893-1970)
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a
symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward
of production.
-- Ayn Rand
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but
you must approach each man by the right door.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you
became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be
happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was
worth a try.
-- Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Forever is composed of nows.
-- Emily Dickinson
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
-- John Ruskin
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be
done. Then they begin to hope it can be done. Then they see it can be
done. Then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done
centuries ago.
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett, 1829-1924
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people,
they think it's their fault.
-- Henry Kissinger
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a
joke about a father-in-law?
-- Dick Clark
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
-- Edith Sitwell
Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.
-- Price Cobb
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
-- Kathleen A. Sutton
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem
intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you
will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
-- Saint Basil
I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not
only plan, but also believe."
- Anatole France
The unity of those associated by mere authority, power, or greed is
ultimately weak and unstable. In contrast, the unity of those united
by the heart - by bonds of respect, honesty, and compassion - is
strong and unshakable.
Taro Gold
(One more reason to 'let love rule.' ;-)
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that
all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they
laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also
laughed at Bozo the Clown.
-- Carl Sagan
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
-- Eric Hoffer
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
-- Calvin Coolidge
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell
California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.
-- Fred Allen
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a
strange protein; it rejects it.
-- P. B. Medawar
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
-- Albert Camus
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals,
weather, and their own content.
-- Paul Valery
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
-- Jewish Proverb
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
-- Anatole France
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
-- Josh Billings, 'Affurisms from Josh Billings: His Sayings,' 1865
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and
manner of devotion.
-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But
today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
-Khalil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important
ongoing activity.
-- Paul Goodman
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Strive for excellence, not perfection.
-- H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003
It’s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.
-- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-09-05
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant
angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
-- George Santayana
I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're
upstairs in my socks.
-- Groucho Marx, In the film A Day at the Races
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for
the first time.
-- Alfred E. Wiggam
I think over again my small adventures, my fears, those small ones
that seemed so big, all those vital things I had to get and to reach,
and yet there is only one great thing: to live and see the great day
that dawns, and the light that fills the world.
Traditional Inuit Song
