Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
-- Socrates
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom,
which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
-- Pearl Buck
Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.
-- Elizabeth David
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
-- Anonymous
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
-- Herbert Hoover
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
-- Leo Rosten
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at
the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
-- Agatha Christie
Go out into the world where your heart calls you. The blessings will
come, I promise you that. I wish for you the insight to recognize the
blessings as such, and sometimes it's hard. But you'll know it's a
blessing if you are enriched and transformed by the experience. So be
ready. There are great souls and teachers everywhere. It's your job to
recognize them.
Sy Montgomery
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
-- Cecil Baxter
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
-- Evan Esar
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
-- Marguerite de Valois
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
-- Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition,
trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
-- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
-- Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be
unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
-- G. K. Chesterton
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing
how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray Bradbury
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
-- Isaac Asimov
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
Mary Anne Radmacher
(Let's try it. ;-)
"The moment you define something as 'difficult' you give it an unfair
advantage."
- Author Unknown
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men
have mediocrity thrust upon them.
-- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
-- George Orwell
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
-- Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
-- Margaret Peters
The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it
punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
-- Lillian Hellman
Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
-- Phil Knight, founder of Nike
We are not here to be rich or beautiful or cool or right. We are here
simply to love and care for one another. As more and more people
discover this, the world will change in ways we have not even
imagined.
Ron Atchison (Be good to each other!) :-)
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
-- Donald H. Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a
winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
-- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-- Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
-- Stephen King
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
-- Sam Rayburn
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.
-- Margaret Lee Runbeck
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or
offer your own version in return.
-- Salman Rushdie, O Magazine, April 2003
The things you own end up owning you.
-- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
-- Robin Williams
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
-- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
The dreamers are the saviours of the world. As the visible world is
sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins
and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their
solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let
their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the
realities which it shall one day see and know.
James Allen, 1864-1912
Worries go down better with soup than without.
-- Jewish Proverb
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
-- Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have
more happiness.
-- Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
A finished person is a boring person.
-- Anna Quindlen
Never regret something that once made you smile.
-- Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord,
make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
-- Voltaire
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us,
although the cockroach would miss us most.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and
that is to contradict other philosophers.
-- William James
Confusion is always the most honest response.
-- Marty Indik
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for
life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the
rest of his days.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be
suspected of doing everything for money.
-- Benjamin Franklin
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is
dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is
ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to
lie down and rest.
-- Pearl Bailey
What you are is a question only you can answer.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
-- Mo Udall
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
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men
and a discharge for loving one. -Leonard Matlovich, a gay Vietnam
Veteran (1943-1988)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
-- Charles De Gaulle, in "Les Mots du General", 1962
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
-- Unknown
In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.
-- David Smith
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point
of doubtful sanity. -Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)
Good men must not obey the laws too well. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer
and philosopher (1803-1882)
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
-- Henry Morgan
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
-- Ronnie Shakes
These days an income is something you can't live without--or within.
-- Tom Wilson, "Ziggy" (comic)
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not
depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978
Never look at what you have lost.
Always look at what is left with you..
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy
life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one
year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all;
for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth
when it is satisfied.
-- Sir Walter Raleigh
To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.
-- Thomas Moore
The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they
need to be. -Louis de Berniere, novelist (b. 1954)
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed
legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five
minutes.
-- Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
-- Galileo Galilei
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
-- Michel de Montaigne
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
-- John le Carre
A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody
home." I went over. Nobody was home.
-- Rodney Dangerfield
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your
riches, but to reveal to him his own.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
-- Solon
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the
more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
-- Victor Hugo
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In
practice, there is.
-- Chuck Reid
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
-- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes
to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
-- Bob Dylan
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
-- Confucius
Ask advice only of your equals.
-- Danish Proverb
The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the
big test is what you do when things go wrong.
-- Sir Colin Marshall
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you... yes,
it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him
your hand.
Mother Teresa, 1910-1997
(May the spirit of Christmas be with us.)
Last Minute Gift Suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To every child, a good example.
To all, charity.
To yourself, respect.
- Oren Arnold
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
-- Oscar Levant
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
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day
after the revolution.
-- Hannah Arendt
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-- George Washington, letter to his niece Harriet
Washington, October 30, 1791
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
-- Bessie A. Stanley
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
-- Kahlil Gibran
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931
Lebanese Poet, Artist and Philosopher
(Don't stop believing.)
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more
than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith,
And we have hope.
- Jacques Cousteau
J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport
-- Unknown, Suggested book title
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like
being taught.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
-- Publilius Syrus
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately,
they don't have a J.O.B.
-- Fats Domino
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn
from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
-- George Carlin
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
-- Peter de Vries
Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too
consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a
prophylactic measure against stupidity.
-- Paul Graham, September 2004
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.
-- Lillian Carter, in her 80s
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every
war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers, New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
-- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
-- Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Parents and Children (1914)
"Children's Happiness"
To find the universal elements enough;
to find the air and the water exhilarating;
to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter;
to be thrilled by the stars at night:
to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring...
these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
John Burroughs, 1837-1921
(Wishing you the moon and the stars... ;-)
We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the
process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people,
can transform the world.
Howard Zinn
(Keep on keepin' on! ;-)
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.
I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all
those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones
to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe
you meet the people you're supposed to meet.
-- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure,
The Quest, 1995
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
-- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
-- Chester Bowles
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in
order to enjoy ourselves.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.
-- Leon Tec, M.D.
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
-- Cher
The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I
found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little
piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
-- Tina Turner, O Magazine, December 2003
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among
the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has
much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to
find those words.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
-- Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having
lots to do and not doing it.
-- Mary Wilson Little
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you
nothing. It was here first.
-- Mark Twain
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying
of nothing.
-- Redd Foxx
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
-- Bernard Berenson
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
-- Frank Zappa
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the
courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to
other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes'
burning inside.
Dr. Stephen Covey
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. -Kenji
Miyazawa, poet and story writer (1896-1933)
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
-- William Shakespeare
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
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
-- Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
-- Muhammad Ali
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
-- Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise,
there wouldn't be religious people.
-- Doris Egan, House M.D., The Right Stuff, 2007
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it.
What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is always a sign
of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what
wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
Miller Williams
(Con mucho amor.)
"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the
purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be
compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for
something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." - Leo
Rosten
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
-- Horace Walpole
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
-- Fran Lebowitz
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
-- Rita Rudner
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
-- Cicero
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best
advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
-- G. K. Chesterton
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there
will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending,
ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the
journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and
glory of the climb.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
-- Don Marquis
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so
uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
-- Floyd Dell
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of
the pessimists.
-- Jean Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
-Henry Maudsley, psychiatrist (1835-1918)
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
-- Epictetus
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
-- Adelle Davis
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most
sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
-- Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal
It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and
pain, that's not noble. It's selfish.
-- Carol Green, House M.D., Adverse Events, 2008
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all
at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
-- Anonymous
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-- Jack London
Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.
-- Robin Williams
There are no headlines
for everyday heroes
there is no tickertape
no standing ovation
sometimes it's all they can do
to set their feet on the floor
in the morning
they go through their days
the best they know how
no rainbow need arch
through the sky
to inspire them
they have a special courage
shining deep inside
they go through their days
the best they know how
Everyday Heroes
Written by our dear friend Ted Hibbard, © 2003
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single
sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt
at the end of the year.
-- Horace Mann
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
-- Aesop
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a
friend on obtaining it.
-- John Adams
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
-- Mae West
If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
-- P. G. Wodehouse
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969
34th President of the United States (Let's come up with some better ideas!)
"We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we
should take risks to secure peace?" - J. Ramsay MacDonald
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to
anybody. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
-- Jimmy Buffett, Song Title
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
-- William Blake
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
-- Dr. Howard Murphy
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
-- Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army'
Quit putting yourself in a little box by trying to live consistently
with your past and explaining every little action you take. BE YOU.
Fully. In this moment. Independent of what others may or may not
'expect' from you.
Brian Johnson
(Yesterday does not equal today. ;-)
"The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really
want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know
yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself. And
the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart." - Mike Dooley
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
-- Thomas Paine
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
judge us by what we have already done.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do not wait for joy.
Author Unknown
But Greatly Appreciated!
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
-- Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one
person and himself.
-- Garth Brooks, Country Music
Life is a long lesson in humility.
-- James M. Barrie
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
-- Bret Harte
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
-- Russell Baker
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest
willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.
-- William Feather
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
-- Woody Allen, Without Feathers (1976)
[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a
power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets
and marvels!
-- Theodor Herzl
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are
performed not by strength, but perseverance.
-- Samuel Johnson
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from
within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
-- Charles Lindbergh
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
-- Richard Diran
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well
known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
-- Fred Allen
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
-- Helen Keller
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
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination
that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things
happen.
-- Sean O'Faolain
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.
Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
-- Pablo Picasso
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
-- Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less
than you settled for.
-- Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times'
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels,
most would choose none.
-- Ben Shahn
The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive
hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to
mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go
out and explore it; don’t limit it.
-- John Eliot, Ph.D., Reverse Psychology for Success
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
-- Nick Diamos
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-- Will Durant
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly
exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
-William Styron, novelist (1925-2006)
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is
because we do not dare that they are difficult.
-- Seneca
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping,
always make you less than you are.
-- Malcolm Forbes
The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time
to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you
fight something, you only make it stronger.
-- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, 1999
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
-- Plutarch
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than
why I have one.
-- Cato the Elder
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
-- Bible, Old Testament
Energy is eternal delight.
-- William Blake
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
-- Frank Zappa
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
-- Bruce Cockburn
Never have children, only grandchildren.
-- Gore Vidal
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-
bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the
road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the
importance of turning around three times before lying down.
-- Robert Benchley
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of
the human bladder.
-- Alfred Hitchcock, In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that
correspond with them.
-- Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
-- Martha Stewart, quoted in Harper's Bazaar
When considering a difficult decision, look ahead in your life toward
the day when you will die, and consider: which option
would you regret most *not* doing. In most cases, your answer will be
immediately clear.
Metta Zetty
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear,
toward others as well as ourselves.
-- Oscar Arias Sanchez
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of
rational analysis.
-- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without
Thinking, 2005
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask
remains a fool forever.
-- Chinese Proverb
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what
it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle
Television has raised writing to a new low.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else
on your shoulders.
-- Bob Moawad
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for
one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.'
Confucius, 551-479 BC
Chinese Philosopher and Teacher
"The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the
great art of life is to have as many of them as possible." - Montaigne
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
-- Mark Twain
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
-- Edgar Watson Howe
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the
significance of a clean desk?
-- Laurence J. Peter
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
-- Plato
No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes
deserves to be called a scholar.
-- Donald Foster
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
-- Albert Camus
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
-- Sheila Graham
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear
of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
-- Woody Allen
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everybody.
-- Bill Cosby
I have such poor vision I can date anybody.
-- Garry Shandling
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can
do, then do it.
-- Anonymous
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
-- John F. Kennedy
Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
-- Sylvia Robinson
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was
convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here
for, I don't know.
-- W. H. Auden
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the
time, and a courageous person afterward.
-- Jean Paul Richter
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be
sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
-- Spanish Proverb
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets
collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of
entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a
debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are
possessed by one.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
-- Gladys Bronwyn Stern
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get
up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost
No human thing is of serious importance.
-- Plato
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
-- Richard Bach
He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.
-- Unknown
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
-- Bill Watterson, Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
-- Judge Gideon J. Tucker
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small
things they show themselves as they are.
-- Nicholas Chamfort
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
-- Billy Crystal
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
Destiny is made known silently.
-- Agnes de Mille
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the
fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where
it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and
tend the grass wherever you may be.
-- Robert Fulghum, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
-- Unknown
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action,
where it often substitutes for both.
-- John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the
individuals and in the way they express their love.
-- Pearl Buck
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon
an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an
obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine
trappings.
-- Sir George Savile, 'Advice to a Daughter,' 1688
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made
in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
-- Noel Coward
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short
phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if
it stops moving, subsidize it.
-- Ronald Reagan
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be
planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the
same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so
far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their
roots into unaccustomed earth. -Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer
(1804-1864)
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
-- Woody Allen
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin in "The Search for Signs of
Intelligent Life in the Universe"
It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
-- Marlene Dietrich
Only the educated are free. -Epictetus, philosopher (c. 60-120)
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him. -
Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the
prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your
heart.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without
the rain, there would be no rainbow.
-- Jerry Chin
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
-- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
-- The Belzer Rabbi
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child
of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
-- Immanuel Kant
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be
declared brain dead.
-- Erma Bombeck
Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.
-- Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation
ought to last as long as life.
-- Queen Christina, of Sweden
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what
you said the last time.
-- Sam Rayburn, quoted Washingtonian, November 1978
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no
sane individual has ever given his assent.
-- Aldous Huxley
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear
that only the other one snores.
-- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?
-- John Clarke, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an
unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
-- Arthur Rubinstein
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck
out of you.
-- Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993
One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.
-- Knute Rockne
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it
always has to end.
-- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things
for granted.
-- Aldous Huxley
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