Gayathri's Quote Bank - Vol. 5! :)

Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human
disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you
will not find another. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996

Mike Ditka - "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have
given us arms."

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on
wings with high thoughts.
-- Anzia Yezierska

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who
are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by
those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
-- Ellen Goodman

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in
private and wash your hands afterwards.
-- Robert Heinlein

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly
greater than that of any other animal.
-- H. L. Mencken

I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out
of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
-- Kin Hubbard

The highest result of education is tolerance. -Helen Keller, author
and lecturer (1880-1968)

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-- Mark Twain

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be
trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
-- Honore de Balzac

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice
or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
-- Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
-- Anne-Sophie Swetchine

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too
busy thinking about myself.
-- Edith Sitwell, As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
-- A. H. Weiler

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
-- Eve Babitz

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to
read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
-- G. K. Chesterton

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
-- Og Mandino

Good habits result from resisting temptation.
-- Ancient Proverb

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
-- Elbert Hubbard

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is
humanity in the higher.
-- Victor Hugo, 'Les Miserables,' 1862

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love
by which you can catch souls.
-- Mother Teresa

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have
teenagers of their own.
-- Doug Larson

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much
about the problem.
-- Malcolm Forbes

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
-- William Feather

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every
class is unfit to govern.
-- Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881

When you drink the water, remember the spring.
-- Chinese Proverb

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
-- Steven Pearl

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
-- Alan Turing

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up
and be a critic."
-- Richard Pryor, Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
-- Jacques Derrida

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean
it does not exist.
-- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 03-23-06

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the
clouds. -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (1833-1899)

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But
the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an
underachiever.
-- Woody Allen

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of
hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
-- George Carlin

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how
wonderful you are.
-- Laurence J. Peter

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Charles de Gaulle - "The better I get to know men, the more I find
myself loving dogs."

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's
opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
-- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty
is always in vain.
-- John F. Kennedy

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
-- John Dryden, The Medal, 1682

You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell.
-- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed
Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to
recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.
-- Rachel Carson

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful
enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to
cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good
shit and give it away as fast as you can.
-- Lisa Williams, The Lessons of Nixon, 05-19-06

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's
blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has
nothing else in the world to do.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
-- Diogenes the Cynic

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein, (attributed)

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If
you work at it, it's golf.
-- Bob Hope

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless
they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
-- Voltaire

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for
reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. -Albert Einstein, physicist,
Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

The road to success is not crowded. Because while most are looking for
ways to take, the truly successful people are finding ways to give.
With a giving attitude, every situation is an opportunity for success.
Author Unknown
But Very Much Appreciated!

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them
without removing some of our own skin. -Andre Berthiaume, novelist (b.
1938)

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
-- Bishop Richard Cumberland

The longest journey is the journey inward.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on
our own bottom.
-- Michel de Montaigne

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only
very learned men could possibly adopt them.
-- Bertrand Russell

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real
ones to encounter.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
-- Oscar Wilde

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
-- Wilson Mizner

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would
simply do as I advise.
-- Gore Vidal

Storms make oaks take deeper root.
-- George Herbert

If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a
sound bite.
-- Liz Friedman, House M.D., Hunting, 2005

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of
thought which they seldom use.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
-- Nancy Astor

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they
have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
-- Randall Jarrell

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
-- T. S. Eliot

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so
vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it
means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up
all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, suit of armor,
so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different
from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give
them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb
one day, like smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.
Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves
you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should
be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your
heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind.
It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I
hate love". Neil Gaiman

The difference between try and triumph
is a little 'umph'.
Author Unknown
But Very Much Appreciated!
(Full effort is full victory. ;-)

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally
astound ourselves."
- Thomas Edison

We are the people our parents warned us about.
-- Jimmy Buffett

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
-- Edmund Wilson

For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true.
You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft
beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not
comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship;
servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days,
but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not
the kernel. That cannot be had for money. -Arne Garborg, writer
(1851-1924)

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-- Abraham Lincoln

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
-- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of
loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other
person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine
the value of what we have done.
Mother Teresa, 1910-1997

"Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning
and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero." -
Brian Andreas

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.
-- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09-26-05

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people
might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't
play, you can't win.
-- Robert Heinlein

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
-- Friedrich Engels

The highest result of education is tolerance.
-- Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
-- Rudyard Kipling

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome
for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
-- Moses Hadas

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated
sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
-- Michel de Montaigne

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
-- Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
-- Chinese Proverb

I know what it's like. I've seen it played out a few zillion times.
You're waiting for that magical day when someone makes the connection
and recognizes who you really are. Maybe they'll first catch the
sparkle in your eye. Or perhaps they'll marvel at your insights and
the depth of your spirit. Someone who will help you connect the dots,
believe in yourself, and make sense of it all. Someone who will
understand you, approve of you, and unhesitatingly give you a leg up
so that life can pluck your ready, ripened self from the branch of
magnificence.

Well, I'm here to tell you, your wait is over.

That someone, is you.

Mike Dooley

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
-- Unknown

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
-- Marcus Valerius Martialis

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they
couldn't fly.
-- Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On
Your Own, 1992

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as
mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead

The best way out is always through.
-- Robert Frost

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual
superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong
proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
-- Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
-- Evan Esar

[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
-- Alexander Pope

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
-- Bonnie Prudden

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier
than the people who have to wait for them.
-- E. V. Lucas

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a
cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
-- Henry Stimson

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, upon being told the cost of an operation

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
-- Wernher von Braun

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being
either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
-- George F. Will

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
-- H. G. Wells, Outline of History (1920)

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas A. Edison, (attributed)

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is
that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
-- Robert Jackson

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
-- Benjamin Franklin

My friends are my estate.
-- Emily Dickinson

When you speak from your heart and say the words
your soul has only dared to whisper, that's when miracles happen.
Author Unknown
But Very Much Appreciated!

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of
us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach
myself from the wickedest soul. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables
us to disregard them.
-- Cato the Elder

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
-- Charles Dickens

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of
throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
-- Gautama Buddha

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders, last words

Nothing ever goes away.
-- Barry Commoner

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be
asleep all day.
-- Anonymous

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water,
flowing in and out with the tide.
-- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- Andre Maurois

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
-- Fran Lebowitz

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be
disappointed to discover they are not it.
-- Bernard Bailey

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars
are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
-- Hobart Brown

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on
being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-- Anna Quindlen

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we
loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.
-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how
seldom they do.
-- Ethel Barrett

Trade your secrets and become who you are.
-- Frank Warren, PostSecret, 09-06-08

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
-- William H. Mauldin

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five
hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came
to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
-- James Thurber

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would
have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
-- Alan Corenk

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing
was there a why and a wherefore.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
-- Carrie Fisher

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look
back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your
capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to
reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they
happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How
will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit.
Your turn will come.

Og Mandino, 1923-1996
American Author and Inspirational Speaker
More Quotes About 'Mistakes' The Daily Acceptance Prayer

(Keep on keepin' on! ;-)


Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people.
-- Adrian Mitchell

Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
-- Charles de Gaulle

The truth is more important than the facts.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

Enquire not what boils in another's pot.
-- Thomas Fuller

Luck is the residue of design.
-- Branch Rickey, Lecture title, 1950

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
-- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
-- Sean O'Casey

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will
choose your rest home.
-- Phyllis Diller

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
-- Robertson Davies

Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though,
if you jumble it up.
-- David Shore, House M.D., DNR, 2004

Morality is contraband in war. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

Choices In Life
Any change, any loss, dos not make us victims.
Others can shake you, surprise you or disappoint you.
But they can't prevent you from moving on.
No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation,
you can always do something.
On every turn of life, you will always have a choice.
And that choice can be your power.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
-- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements
about which one can never be sure.
-- Alice Hoffman, 'Here on Earth'

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
-- Jennie Jerome Churchill

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the
world what makes you extraordinary.
-- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
-- George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on
James Burnham"

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down
everything except a good reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde

There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
-- Casey Stengel

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far
higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
-- Joel Hawes

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can
see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.
-- Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

Maybe it was only a second of your time, but you need to treasure
life, every second.
-- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,
Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
-- Noelie Altito

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which
to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
-- Paul Gauguin

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
-- Jim Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no
birds sang there except those that sang best.
-- Henry Van Dyke

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

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing -
peace is the measure.
-- George Melton

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the
person you're complaining about.
-- Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
-- Margaret Bonnano

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.
-- Mick Jagger

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and
sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my
absence.
-- Brendan Behan

Poverty is the worst form of violence. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
-- Ted Turner

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he
emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
-- Blaise Pascal

My Karma ran over your dogma.
-- Unknown

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable
to dispense it.
-- Dick Cavett

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
-- Stewart L. Udall, commencement address, Dartmouth
College, June 13, 1965

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation
if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find
outside an advertising agency.
-- Raymond Chandler

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
-- Thomas Pickering

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
-- Arthur Koestler

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire,
you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
-- George Bernard Shaw

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change
them yourself.
-- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of
motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and
torturous.
-- Anna Quindlen, O Magazine, May 2003

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've
taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943

Spare no expense to save money on this one.
-- Samuel Goldwyn

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when
they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately
become proof that they were busy.
-- Charles Peters

History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them
credit, they eventually find.
-- Peter Ustinov

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
-- Al Franken, 'Stuart Saves His Family'

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
-- Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an
emergency. Nothing is that important.
-- Natalie Goldberg

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
-- Will Rogers

Partying is such sweet sorrow.
-- Robert Byrne

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to
keep your mouth shut.
-- Ernest Hemingway

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you
put in the hours.
-- Sam Ewing

Each time you remember the Truth of who you are,
You bring more light into the world.
Author Unknown
But Very Much Appreciated!
(Let it shine! ;-)


William Butler Yeats - "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse. -Woody Allen, author,
actor, and filmmaker (b. 1935)

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into
hard work.
-- Peter Drucker

All my possessions for a moment of time.
-- Elizabeth I

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
-- Benjamin Franklin

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear
the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will
result.
-- John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small
Business for People, Community and Place

Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence?
There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
-- Gallagher

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to
make me happy.
-- J. D. Salinger

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.
-- From the 1985 movie "Bliss"

Communism is like one big phone company.
-- Lenny Bruce

"Knowledge is not the same as wisdom."
"Yeah, what's the difference?"
"You know how to clean a windshield, right?"
"Yeah."
"Wisdom is doing it."
- From the film "Peaceful Warrior", As written by Dan Millman

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the
business known as gambling.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
-- Vince Lombardi

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at
someone else's can shorten it.
-- Cullen Hightower

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest
of my life.
-- George Burns

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
-- Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but
it comes from within. It is there all the time.
-- Anna Freud

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless
to seek it elsewhere.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

When something happens to you - Good or Bad;
Consider what it means.
There's a purpose to life's events.
to teach you how to laugh more or not to cry too hard.
When you feel down because you didn't get what you want,
just sit tight and be happy.
God has thought of something better to give you.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at
midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself
in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
-- John Wayne

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
-- Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to
see it tried on him personally.
-- Abraham Lincoln

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
-- James Thurber

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger

A joke's a very serious thing.
-- Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
-- Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
-- Harry Golden

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us
grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.
Brother David Steindl-Rast

Man is what he believes.
-- Anton Chekhov

As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
-- Don Marquis

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the
more difficult it is to find anything to say.
-- Samuel Johnson

Reality continues to ruin my life.
-- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

It is not a question of whether you 'have what it takes,' but of
whether you take the gifts you have - they are plenteous - and share
them with all the world.
Neale Donald Walsch
(All of us have 'what it takes'.)

Reason should direct and appetite obey.
-- Cicero

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that
the world will not raise your price.
-- Anonymous

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of
cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
-- Peggy Noonan, in Good Housekeeping

The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.
-- Tom Morris

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually
has a son who thinks he's wrong.
-- Charles Wadsworth

A beautiful thing is never perfect. -Egyptian proverb

Kurt Cobain - "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
-- Alan Saporta

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the
world from outer space.
-- Thomas K. Mattingly II

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane
people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. -Nora Ephron,
novelist (b. 1941)

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
-- William Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win
unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
-- Richard M. Nixon, in his White House farewell

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which
distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of
sycophants and admiration of fools.
-- Sir Richard Steele

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
-- Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the
artist does the better.
-- Andre Gide

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking
advantage of them.
-- Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
-- Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)

What you send out - comes back.
What you sow - you reap.
What you give - you get.
What you see in others - exists in you.
Remember, Life is an Echo.
It always gets back to you.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even
more to stand up to your friends.
-- J. K. Rowling

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
-- Oprah Winfrey, 20th Anniversary DVD

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

Wilson Mizner - "God help those who do not help themselves.

"We must expect posterity
to view with some asperity
the marvels and the wonders
we're passing on to it;
but it should change its attitude
to one of heartfelt gratitude
when thinking of the blunders
we didn't quite commit."
Our Greatest Achievement; Piet Hein; Grooks.