Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
-- Will Rogers
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
-- Henry Fielding
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
-- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight
in whatever sunlight remains to them?
-- Rose Kennedy
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
-- William Henry Hudson, Afoot in England, 1909
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
-- Bertrand Russell
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"
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part
we choose to act on. That's who we really are. -J.K. Rowling,
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-- Andre Maurois
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells
us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your
talent to people who have none.
-- Jules Renard
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
-- Jacopo Sannazaro
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
-- Plutarch
There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a
chance there is nothing you can do.
-- Charlize Theron, acceptance speech at Golden Globe Awards, 2004
Laughter is an instant vacation.
-- Milton Berle
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from
a mountain top .
-- Unknown
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while
you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
-- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's
unfamiliar territory.
-- Paul Fix
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
-- Noel Coward
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like
developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and
that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
-- John Cage
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very
little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly
appreciated.
-- Baltasar Gracian
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living
one degree below your means.
-- Sir Henry Taylor
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
-- Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986
A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
-- Paul Klee
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down
a lot of the time.
-- Colette, Paris From My Window, 1944
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
Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
-- John L. Motley
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
-- Alvin Toffler
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
-- Lily Tomlin
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he
hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
-- Otto von Bismarck
Creativity is your birthright. You miraculously appeared from nowhere.
The Unseen that gave you Life is still nourishing you - and, if you
remain open, it will inspire you endlessly...
Metta Zetty
Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.
Paulo Coelho
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all
my love is toward individuals. -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than
other folks do, isn't it?
-- Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna, 1912
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
-- Italian Proverb
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-- William James
The family is the country of the heart.
-- Giuseppe Mazzini
2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.
-- Grabel's Law
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
-- Segal's Law
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to
have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context --
no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
-- Carl Sagan
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
-- George Bernard Shaw
In life, we are born, we love, we lose, we laugh, and we die. Some
things, like losing and dying, we do not have a choice about. But we
do have a choice, to love, and keep on laughing.
Author Unknown
But Very Much Appreciated!
(Choose well. ;-)
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly
teaches me to suspect that my own is also. -Mark Twain, author and
humorist (1835-1910)
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know
whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
-- Theodore Roosevelt
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
-- Larry Gelbart
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
-- H. L. Mencken
He who praises everybody, praises nobody. -Samuel Johnson,
lexicographer (1709-1784)
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you
shine on it, the more it will contract.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which
distinguishes man from animals.
-- Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
-- Ethel Mumford
Gravity is not responsible for people to fall in love. It just happens.
One law for the lion and ox is oppression. -William Blake, poet,
engraver, and painter (1757-1827)
When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.
-- Lord Chesterfield
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never
refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own
way more clearly.
-- Brendan Francis
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
-- Barbra Streisand
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in
fact, barely presentable.
-- Fran Lebowitz
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get
them right, or they will get you wrong.
-- Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies
and misfortunes of mankind.
-- Edward Gibbon
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
-- David M. Ogilvy
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
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
-- Kin Hubbard
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
-- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head
back and laugh at the sky.
Buddha
'The Enlightened One'
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
-- Christina Baldwin
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
-- Confucius
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances
occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil
is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims
of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.
-- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's
no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
-- Chinese Proverb
Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
-- Jewish Proverb
God creates men, but they choose each other.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there
is of it wrong.
-- Piet Hein, "Grooks"
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or
books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
-- Gore Vidal
This is like deja vu all over again.
-- Yogi Berra
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy;
but after a war it seems more like astrology.
-- Rebecca West
Never spend your money before you have it.
-- Thomas Jefferson
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
-- Roberto Benigni, in Newsweek
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
-- Albert Schweitzer
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
-- Havelock Ellis
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
-- Rita Mae Brown
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more,
it is willing to see less.
-- Rabbi Julius Gordon
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people
in an impudent way.
-- Jane Austen, Emma
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody’s hand and
squeeze it, while there’s time.
Dale Dauten
(Maybe even give them a great big hug! ;-)
"The journey you wish to take can only begin from where you are right
now this very minute."
- Ron Atchison
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
-- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are
sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where
you are.
-- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,
Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones
who will be writing about you.
-- Cyril Connolly
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
-- Dale Carnegie
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not
from anybody else.
-- John Blake
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
-- Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we
don't lose track of ourselves.
-- Norman Fischer
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
-- Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 01-04-04
In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we
strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.
-- George Matthew Adams
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
-- Don Marquis
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading
newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand
of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first
things to be bought and sold are legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
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..
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
- Khalil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones
Men who never get carried away should be.
-- Malcolm Forbes
Silence is the virtue of fools.
-- Sir Francis Bacon
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An
inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
-- G. K. Chesterton
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be
defended against the heaviest odds.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
-- Lao-tzu
All that counts in life is intention.
-- Andrea Bocelli, in TV Guide
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want,
be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what
you feel.
-- T. S. Eliot
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of
energetic men of good will.
-- J. Arthur Thomson
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned
state from mere excess of comfort.
-- Charles Dickens
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play
you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator
gave you and destroying your design.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2003
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
-- Darrin Weinberg
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
-- Muhammad Ali
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not
to have any.
-- Katharine Whitehorn
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
-- Robert Benchley
As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd stay away.
-- Hughes Mearns
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
-- Carl Becker
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
-- Mark Twain
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor
and attended to with diligence.
-- Abigail Adams, 1780
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
-- Grant Frazier
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened
by doing it.
-- Robbie Gass
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone
has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
-- An English Professor, Ohio University
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
-- Wernher von Braun
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
-- William G. McAdoo
I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me
god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.
-- Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have
two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and
want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You
must be the same to all people.
-- Lillian Eichler Watson
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject
depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made
a deep impression on our minds.
-- Tryon Edwards
The longest journey is the journey inward.
-- Dag Hammarskjold
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
-- Minna Thomas Antrim
No matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a
smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will
force yourself to smile, you'll end up laughing. You will be cheerful
because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when we assume the
facial expressions of a given mental mood - any given mood - then
that mental mood itself will follow.
-- Kenneth Goode
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
-- Voltaire
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving
$5 worth for $500.
-- Benjamin H. Brewster
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve
honestly is to steal with good judgment.
-- Josh Billings
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the
brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
-- Euripides, 'Rhesus'
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By
definition, there are already enough people to do that.
-- G. H. Hardy
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some
admit it. I myself deny it.
-- H. L. Mencken
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
-- Oscar Wilde
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A smile is nature's best antidote for discouragement. It brings rest
to the weary, sunshine to those who are frowning, and hope to those
who are hopeless and defeated. A smile is so valuable that it can't be
bought, begged, borrowed, or taken away against your will. You have to
be willing to give a smile away, before it can do anyone else any
good. So if someone is too tired or grumpy to flash you a smile, let
him have one of yours anyway. Nobody needs a smile as much as the
person who has none to give.
Dale Carnegie
Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything
good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real
courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in
every hurdle, the pros in every con.
Carolyn Hax
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people
he gave it to.
-- Dorothy Parker
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended
up where I needed to be.
-- Douglas Adams
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
There will always be challenges that have manifested, and dreams that
haven't. But they'll always pale in comparison to the number of dreams
that have manifested, and challenges that haven't.
Mike Dooley
(Keep dreaming the good dreams! ;-)
"I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the
extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few,
but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are
all the manifestation of the divinity of God." - Paulo Coelho
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is
ancient. It's called 'rain'.
-- Michael McClary
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance
to do something stupid.
-- Art Spander
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
-- Groucho Marx
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
We go where our vision is.
-- Joseph Murphy
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may
invest your humanity.
-- Albert Schweitzer
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
When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
-- Rick Pitino, Lead to Success
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid, more accessible,
to loose my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance to live;
so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom
and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I
know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
-- Beverly Sills
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
-- Yugoslav Proverb
It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's
sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is
exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
-- Pema Chodron
The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.
-- Anonymous
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a
word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about
drugs.'
-- Roy Blount Jr.
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
-- George Burns
There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
-- Casey Stengel
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
-- Garrison Keillor, in Salon.com
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
-- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?"
How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or
singers how they sing. They just do it!
-- Lynn Johnston, Lynn on Ideas
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
-- Democritus
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
-- John Mason Brown, drama critic
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
-- Simon Cameron
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal
relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient
resignation.
-- Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 2
We are taught that winning and achieving are about getting and
keeping, when the truth is that winning is about giving. Winners are
go-givers, not go-getters... While it is hard to fathom living a life
of giving when everyone else is on the take, there is an ancient law
which ensures that if we did, we would never go without.
Author Unknown
But Very Much Appreciated!
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same,
without such opinion, despair.
-- Thomas Hobbes
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once
he grows up.
-- Pablo Picasso
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's
chosen form.
-- Stephen Nachmanovitch
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first.
-- David H. Comins
Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from,
but not well enough to lend to.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day,
expressed in M&Ms: 250
-- Harper's Index, October 1989
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the
morning, day after day.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up" (1936)
Sanity is a madness put to good use.
-- George Santayana
Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success.
Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.
Dan Zadra
"The four hardest tasks on earth are neither physical nor intellectual
feats, but spiritual ones: To return love for hate; to include the
excluded; to forgive without apology, and to be able to say 'I was
wrong.'"
- Author Unknown
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the
only animal that is never satisfied.
-- Henry George
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to
be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or
fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of
thanksgiving to the gods.
-- Epictetus
The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.
-- Elizabeth Stone
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find
something creative to do with my life.
-- Miles Davis
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
-- Carl Sandburg, Incidentals (1907)
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
-- Martin Myers
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
You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.
Andy Warhol, 1928-1987
(There's no reason to have a reason... ;-)
"Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize that nothing is lacking,
the whole world belongs to you!"
- Lao Tzu
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
-- Colleen Wainwright, communitcatrix, 04-10-2006
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born,
hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your
own brain
-- Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, 2005
Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh
things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret,
just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'
-- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 04-12-2006
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely
tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide
to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure,
the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart, 1897-1937
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people
are right more than half the time.
-- E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
-- Russell Baker
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
-- Barry LePatner
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless
laughter can be said to remedy anything.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
-- George Bernard Shaw
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
-- John Atkinson
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection
but progress.
-- Michelle Burford, O Magazine, 2003
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the
new things that come into our lives.
-- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09-17-05
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
-- Anais Nin
Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be
asleep all day.
-- Anonymous
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'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not
holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the
strong. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do
something about its width and depth.
-- Evan Esar
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain
it in anything.
-- Eugene Delacroix
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to
those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those
who are present.
-- Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good
education, then a dog.
-- John Grogan, An Interview with John Grogan, 2008
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches
nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the
right.
-- Cato the Elder
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of
time, you are incomparable.
-- Brenda Ueland
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind
brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence
of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to
peaceful people.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
-- A. H. Weiler
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of
under observation.
-- Walter Winchell
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make
sure the old one leaves.
-- Bill Vaughan
Walking is man's best medicine.
-- Hippocrates
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
-- Diane Arbus
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
-- English Proverb
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
-- Helmuth von Moltke
Let's have some new cliches.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted
forty-three years.
-- Cathy Ladman
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty
is always in vain.
-- John F. Kennedy
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
-- Flannery O'Connor
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't
know many of them.
-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, 1963
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
-- Francois de Fenelon
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
-- Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004
It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the
urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you
are given.
Elizabeth Berg
American Author
(Make a joyful noise! ;-)
Whenever you have an opportunity to laugh, laugh; whenever you have
an opportunity to dance, dance; whenever you have an opportunity to
sing, sing - and one day you will find you have created your paradise!
- Osho
Give yourself a perfect day. Do what makes you happiest. Look upon
what gives you joy. Speak to those who warm your heart. Listen to that
which lifts your spirit. Surround yourself with sights and sounds and
people who give you pleasure. For all the happiness you give to others
all year long, give yourself a perfect day." - Author Unknown
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -
namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only
necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. -Mark Twain, author
and humorist (1835-1910)
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or
the president of the university. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel
laureate (1879-1955)
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
-- Dame Rose Macaulay
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world
and moral courage so rare.
-- Mark Twain
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and
not in a closet.
-- Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)
Be a fountain, not a drain.
-- Rex Hudler, quoted in 'Sports Illustrated'
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is
preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of
pleasure.
-- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
-- Norman Cousins
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other
people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out
your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow
your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly
want to become. Everything else is secondary.
-- Steve Jobs
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
to reform.
-- Mark Twain
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising?
Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical
advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
-- Vilhjalmur Stefansson, "Discovery", 1964
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a
kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
-- Marilyn Monroe
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
-- Jane Caminos
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack
the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come
home.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
-- Aeschylus
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not
overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are
better than you think.
T. Harv Eker
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who
is Youer than You. -Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (1904-1991)
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't
exactly been one of moderation.
-- Donald Trump
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by
standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of
men.
-- Max Beerbohm
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just
discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
-- Sidney J. Harris
There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are
right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes
upon you.
-- Norman Mailer, Armies Of The Night
There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see
inside of you.
-- Wally 'Famous' Amos
He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.
-- Chinese Proverb
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but a
great deal more to stand up to our friends. -
J.K. Rowling, author (b. 1965) [HP and the Philosopher's Stone]
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but
obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of
them but obedience.
-- Anatole Broyard
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
-- Paul Gauguin
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything
or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
-- Alfred Korzybski
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of
policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
-- Edward Abbey
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
-- Russel Lynes
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
-- Andy Warhol
At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine
any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at
all - within the next few hundred years.
-- Arthur C. Clarke, 1983
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely
improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future,
without fear.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
Neither should a boat rely on one small anchor,
Nor should life rest on a single hope.
.
Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
-- Persian Proverb
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing
life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the
sea - the sun.
-- Katherine Mansfield
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
-- Michel de Montaigne
There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably don’t need one. It
is far more important to be able to find the right kind of gun, be
able to load the gun … and perhaps most importantly, be able to figure
out where the werewolf is.
-- Matthew Oliphant, Useability Works, 03-22-2006
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
was once eccentric. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician,
author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table;
luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
-- John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you
cannot be too conservative.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
-- Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and
to let it come in.
-- Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
-- William H. Mauldin
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
-- Bill Lyon
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
-- Mel Brooks
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
-- Edwin Schlossberg
If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about
learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need.
If you're going to question something, question authority. If you're
going to lose something, lose your inhibitions. If you're going to
gain something, gain respect and confidence. And if you're going to
hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your
dreams.
Daniel Golston
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly
disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has
already happened.
-- Douglas Adams
1. Never tell everything at once.
-- Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for
Revolutionists"
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she
thought didn't amount to much.
-- Peter Ustinov
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take
more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more
luck I have." - Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
-- Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
-- Spike Milligan
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it
wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has
never learned to walk forward.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
-- Bishop Richard Cumberland
Above all things, reverence yourself.
-- Pythagoras
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing
your temper or your self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing
them from their homes.
-- Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
-- Janet Long
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
-- Harlan Ellison
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an
apostrophe with fur.
-- Doug Larson
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
-- Sir Richard Steele
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done
for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
(So you want to live forever? ;-)
"To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain
ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we
can to, not to get what we can from, life." - Sir William OslerWhat is
freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to
exist. -Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 1947)
Abraham Maslow - "If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every
problem as a nail."
The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, the mind is my garden,
the heart is my home, and I'm always at home...
Eden Ahbez, 1908-1995
American Musician, Songwriter and Poet
Plautus - "Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is
really a friend.
The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less.The amount of pain in
life remains the same, exactly the same.
But the amount we taste the 'pain' depends on the container we put it into.
So when you are in pain,the only thing you can do is to enlarge your
sense of things...
Stop being a Glass. Become a Lake!
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a
base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
-- Scott Adams
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a
pebble in the hand of a fool.
-- Joseph Roux
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning
of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
-- Norm Papernick
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and
listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no
choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
-- Franz Kafka
Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
-- Andy Rooney
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
-- Woodrow Wilson
When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers
or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems.
What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who
have taken some bad hops of their own.
-- Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 12, 2003
God help those who do not help themselves. - Wilson Mizner
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
-- Charles F. Kettering
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
-- Henry David Thoreau
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the
windshield.
-- Warren Buffett
Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.
-- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
-- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
-- George Bernard Shaw, The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Model Millionaire, 1912
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I
have of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson, (attributed)
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from
life - William Osler
Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Robert H. Schuller
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
-- Chinese Proverb
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
-- Andre Gide
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not
matter truly slide.
-- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
Dude, marriage is the 'get out of loneliness free' card in the
Monopoly game of life.
-- Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 11-09-07
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have
exhausted all other alternatives.
-- Abba Eban
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go
to erase it.
-- Glaser and Way
I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
-- Will Durst
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way
that will allow a solution.
-- Bertrand Russell
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as
an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own
fullness, not by its reception.
Harold Loukes
"Learn how to carry a friendship greatly, whether or not it is
returned. Why should one regret if the receiver is not equally
generous? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide
and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the
reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold
companion. If he is unequal, he will presently pass away; but thou art
enlarged by thy own shining." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. -Clarence
Darrow, lawyer and author (1857-1938)
To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all its contents.
-- H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
-- Henry Adams
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say
something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
-- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
-- Woody Allen
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
-- Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in
order to secure my heart.
-- Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-03-04
Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather,
it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season
of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of
hope.
-- Robert Veninga
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and
buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the
water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are
smarter for exactly the same reasons. -Douglas Adams, writer,
dramatist, and musician (1952-2001)
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
-- Michel de Montaigne
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another
chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the
staying down.
-- Mary Pickford
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
So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and
patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If
you won’t be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an
opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.
Dan Millman
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
-- Thomas Berger
If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
-- Mickey Mantle, (attributed)
Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.
-- Marlo Thomas
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change
that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
-- Miriam Beard
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
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
-- Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
-- Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
No one other than ourselves know
what can truly make us haappy.
Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no
exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
Edward M. Kennedy, 1932-2009
United States Senator
(Let's keep on keepin' on! ;-)
In Other Words...
None of us are perfect, we've all made our share of mistakes... but we
should never let this fact of life discourage us from rising up and
doing what we can to improve ourselves and make this world a better
place for everyone. Thank you for this fine lesson, Senator
Kennedy... and for showing us how it can be done.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
-- Japanese Proverb
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
-- George S. Patton
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my
individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would
Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people
have been left out of the pleasure.
-- Russell Baker
When you're through changing, you're through.
-- Bruce Barton
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
-- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
-- John Lancaster Spalding
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to
laugh at when you're old.
-- Edgar Watson Howe
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps
only some formula of peace.
-- Joseph Conrad
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know
and I don't care.
-- William Safire
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never
worshipped anything but himself.
-- Sir Richard Francis Burton
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because
I hate plants.
-- A. Whitney Brown
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest
of my life.
-- George Burns
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those
who dream only by night.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, 'Eleanora,' 1842
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
-- Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and
take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities
out there. You can't sit back and wait.
-- Ellen Metcalf
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you
get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-- Socrates
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
-- Lane Olinghouse
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
-- Henri Poincare
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying
to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
What you cannot enforce, do not command. -Sophocles, dramatist (495?-406 BCE)
Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality
of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a
half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible
to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him
to. -Napoleon Bonaparte, general and politician (1769-1821)
Gluttony is not a secret vice.
-- Orson Welles
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it,
requires brains.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he
attempts to bend or break them.
-- Robert Graves
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
-- William Saroyan
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
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
-- Anatole France
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
-- William Wrigley Jr.
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
-- James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which
to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and
small people talk about wine.
-- Fran Lebowitz
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people
on your side that you wish were on the other.
-- Jascha Heifetz
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and
be silent.
-- Epictetus
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important
than how others saw me.
-- Anwar el-Sadat
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find
strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of
the prophets.
-- Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
-- Confucius
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point
where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the
place to become discouraged.
Thomas A. Edison, 1847-1931
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
Forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; Begin it well and serenely,
And with too high a spirit to be encumbered
with your old nonsense.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The greatest mistake in Love is trying to possess it.
It will spill out of hand just like water.
Love will retrieve from you if you demand, if you expect.
Love is meant to be free; you cannot change its nature.
If there are people you love, allow them to be free beings.
Give, but don't expect. Advise, but don't order.
Ask, but never demand.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the
greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
-- Dalton Camp
Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality.
Ed: No thanks.
-- Ellen Herman, Northern Exposure, Only You, 1991
A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. -Franklin D.
Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)
If there was ever a time to dare, to make a difference,
to embark on something worth doing, It is Now!
Not for any grand cause, necessarily..,
but for something that tugs at your heart,
Something that’s your inspiration, something that’s your dream.
You owe it to yourself to make your days here count.
Have fun, dig deep, stretch, Dream Big.
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
-- Leo Rosten
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
-- Sophocles
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
-- Elmer G. Letterman
One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are
not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others.
-- Edward L. Flom
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
-- Henry David Thoreau
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they
had been obliged first to learn Latin.
-- Heinrich Heine
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
-- Saki
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
-- Cullen Hightower
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one;
But you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.
Choose only one master -- Nature. -Rembrandt, painter and etcher (1606-1669)
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Higher Laws, 1854
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly;
for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
-- William Penn
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
-- Edmund Spenser, 'The Fate of the Butterfly,' 1591
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo, 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time,
make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal
stupidity.
-- Robertson Davies
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what
is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
-- Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet
initiative, 1996
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
-- Paul Eldridge
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my
body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
-- Emo Phillips, Neuropsychology: Clinical and Experimental
Foundations
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
-- Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
-- Celia Thaxter
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
-- Dr. Seuss
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
-- George Bernard Shaw
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things
and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil
things, that takes religion.
-- Steven Weinberg, quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
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
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives:
where we focus our attention.
Greg Anderson
"Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her
sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give
you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you
give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and
enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready
to receive a ton of shit."
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was
sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
-- Saadi
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the
night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.
-- William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual
activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the
sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
-- Fritjof Capra, physicist
But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed
that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and
Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who
understands Marx and Lenin.
-- Ronald Reagan
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know
what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be
president.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites. -Christian
Bovee, lawyer and author (1820-1904)
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat
the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in
the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'
-- Dan Parker
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do
better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who
never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003
Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and
don't pick your nose.
-- Jeff Mallett, Frazz, 08-03-04
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
-- Og Mandino
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
-- Steven Wright
I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me.
-- Chris Rapier
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
-- Shana Alexander
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
-- Jay Leno
Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute
immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in
your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878-1969
"I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the
earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream."
- John A. Appleman
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
-- Max L. Forman
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
-- Spanish Proverb
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
-- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
-- Ben Jonson
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with,
insists on boring future generations.
-- Charles de Montesquieu
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
-- Anatole France
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
-- Aesop
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that
if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you
will be good.
-- Bertrand Russell
Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that
cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium
toward the good. -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
Before you Speak... Listen. Before you Write... Think. Before you
Spend... Earn. Before you Criticise... Wait. Before you Pray...
Forgive. Before you Quit... Try.
And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings, this he said to
me: 'The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be
loved in return.'
Eden Ahbez, 1908-1995
Truth shines the brighter clad in verse. -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that
shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces
power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to
ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon
the direction in which that train of thought is going.
-- Laurence J. Peter
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't
give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore
The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy,
creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the
task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will
always play center stage. It will never be transcended.
-- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 7. Keep your day job., 08-22-04
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind
us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon
this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude
beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.
-- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss
Alethea Darcy, 2005
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already
tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles M. Schulz
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
-- Agatha Christie
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
-- Brendan Gill
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
-- Jef Mallett, Frazz, 04-04-07
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a
journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
-- Marcel Proust
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know
how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and
melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
-- Marie Beyon Ray
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like
it to keep in touch.
-- Robert Orben
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the
conditions, now what happens next?
-- Richard Feynman
The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
-- Noel Coward
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really
dishonest kind of advertising that's left.
-- David M. Ogilvy
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know
that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you
are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you
are too small for it.
-- James A. Garfield
One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to
know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read
everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let
go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons
of this life.
-- Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher.com weblog,
September 9, 2003
So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct
attention to our common interests and to the means by which those
differences can be resolved.
-- John F. Kennedy
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
-- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,
Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an
unidentified source.
-- Ron Nesen
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
-- Artemus Ward
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the
proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other
proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
-- G. K. Chesterton
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
-- Henri Bergson
When people think the world of you, be careful with them.
-- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09-26-05
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a
difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little
bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love
it.
-- Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green And Other Things to Consider
Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a
complicated issue.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Blog
I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't
help, just a little bit.
-- Susan Glaspell, The Visioning, 1911
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to
yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on
principle.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the
circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is
said.
-- Vaclav Havel
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
-- Albert Camus, Happy Death
I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always
agree with them.
-- George Bush
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
-- Truman Capote
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
-- Peter Drucker
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
-- Isaac Asimov
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand
what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not
understand.
-- Putt's Law
Confusion is always the most honest response.
-- Marty Indik
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the
thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power
to revoke at any moment.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and
courting new impressions.
-- Walter Pater, 1873
The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes.
That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a
little more fun.
-- Jenny Bicks, Sex and the City, A Woman's Right To Shoes, 2003
Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
-- Alan Moore, Watchmen, 1986
Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What
we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so
when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder.
Philip Gulley
(Wishing all of us a good connection. ;-)
"I should not make any promises right now, But I know if you pray,
Somewhere in this world - Something good will happen."
- Hafiz
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last
is to come to terms with everything.
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
-- Randall Jarrell
There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of
life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals.
The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make
them fit our goals better.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal
Experience, 1990
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
-- Mark Twain
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
-- Walter Bagehot, "Biographical Studies", 1863
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
-- Sir Frederick G. Banting
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is
what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore,
is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize
every second of your life and savor it.
Dr. Wayne Dyer
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
-- Isaac Asimov
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest
in students.
-- John Ciardi
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
In other countries poverty is a misfortune -- with us it is a crime.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writer (1803-1873)
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is
like the potato - the best part under ground.
-- Thomas Overbury
Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
-- Coleman Cox
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a
class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas.
Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think
that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have
forgotten the intangible.
-- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
I don't really trust a sane person.
-- Lyle Alzado
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the
King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
-- Stephen Leacock
I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
-- Craig Newmark, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Love can be sordid only if you work at it.
-- Brooke McEldowney, 9 Chickweed Lane, 05-10-2006
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still
had pimples.
-- George Burns
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old
days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There
was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot
touch.
-- Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds.
The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even
aware of.
-- Ellen Goodman
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It
wasn't mine.
-- Rita Rudner
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a
triviality as if it were a disaster.
-- Quentin Crisp
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
-- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time
to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
-- Miss Piggy
The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has
brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches
stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests,
lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous
glaciers and crystal snowflakes every form of animate or inanimate
existence, leaves its impress upon our soul.
Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924 (Adapted)
American Author and Magazine Founder
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be
learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
-- Scottish Proverb
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
-- Colin Powell
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have
control over what you do.
-- A. J. Kitt
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
-- Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army'
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
-- Ancient Proverb
The things you own end up owning you.
-- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to
build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get
there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been
more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you,
we as a people will get there.
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't
agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know
the government can't solve every problem.
But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I
will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I
will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way
it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by
brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
-- Barack Obama, Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
-- Peter York
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of
every organism to live beyond its income.
-- Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of
body experience.
-- Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err,
falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the
law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
-- Victor Hugo, 'Les Miserables'
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
-- Mahatma Gandhi, 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
-- Aphra Behn
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot
to the town gossip.
-- Will Rogers
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
-- Kenneth Tynan
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
Oppression can only survive through silence.
-- Carmen de Monteflores
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they
become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety,
fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence,
decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to
success.
-- Brian Adams
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than
millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
-- Gamal Abdel Nasser, on refusing Western economic
assistance, 'Realites,' January 20, 1969
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible
to find it elsewhere.
-- Agnes Repplier
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
-- Russell Baker
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
-- Frank Moore Colby
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all
schools of art.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is
generally the by-product of other activities.
-- Aldous Huxley, Vedanta for the Western World, 1945
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair
What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.
-- George Asaf
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
-- H. L. Mencken
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
-- Thomas Fuller
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
-- Howard Dietz
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
-- Peter de Vries
I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the
noblest of causes. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
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