Gayathri's Quote Bank - Vol. 1! :)

Laughter is by definition healthy.
-- Doris Lessing

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
-- Henri Bergson

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping,
always make you less than you are.
-- Malcolm Forbes

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
-- Frank Zappa

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
-- Voltaire

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
-- Doris Egan, House M.D., House vs. God, 2006

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the
dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
-- Jack London

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
-- Malayan Proverb

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you
stretch, you are well.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks

Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
-- Caroline K. Simon

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
-- Swedish Proverb

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
-- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
-- Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People, 1882

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

Strive for excellence, not perfection.
-- H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its
work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest
force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine
should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your
sickness.
-- Hippocrates

My Karma ran over your dogma.
-- Unknown

Free advice is worth the price.
-- Robert Half

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way
that you actually look forward to the trip.
-- Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
-- Ralph Hodgson, on ESP

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it,
requires brains.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938

The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.
-- Anonymous

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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness
make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to
find easier ways to do something.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will
scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he
will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered
something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his
instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The
origin of myths is explained in this way.
-- Bertrand Russell

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
-- Mel Brooks

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong--
or absolutely right.
-- Albert Guinon

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good
ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
-- George Burns

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and
said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find
one at the end of your arm.'
-- Sam Levenson

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
-- Spanish Proverb

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own
life - is the source from which self respect springs.
-- Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

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

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good
fortune to others.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and
one of them is that he has taken to drink.
-- Booth Tarkington, Penrod (1914)

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
-- Muhammad Ali, "More Than a Hero"

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake
and for nothing else.
-- John Keats

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on
the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself
in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still
receiving.
-- Albert Einstein

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you
are brave.
-- E. M. Forster, as a small child

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
-- Aristotle

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas

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

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everybody.
-- Bill Cosby

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

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
-- Dick Werthimer

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952

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

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same
race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by
noon.
-- George Aiken

He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself;
and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his
friend.
-- George Shelley

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.
-- William Van Horne

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human
intelligence long enough to get money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock

Love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it
in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've
got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and
nurture it.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your
mistakes seem worthwhile.
-- Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
-- Anonymous

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
-- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter
to be left to the politicians.
-- Charles De Gaulle

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
-- Malcolm Forbes, in Forbes Magazine

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of
life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at
that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
-- Arnold Toynbee

You are not a beggar at the table of life.
You are the honored guest.
Enjoy the journey!
Author Unknown

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is
performed in the same posture with creeping.
-- Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711

Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.
-- Price Cobb

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
-- Kahlil Gibran

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise
enough to see it.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment.
This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every
traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness,
every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every
piece of garbage, every breath.

Every moment is the Guru.

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.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect.
There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect
conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you
will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more
self-confident and more and more successful.

Mark Victor Hansen

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many',
and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
-- Larry Hardiman

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest
in students.
-- John Ciardi

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a
shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
-- John Adams
We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to
surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. ...And the
great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. It is a
good instinct if you don't distort it and pervert it. Don't give it
up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need
for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to
be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in
generosity.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968
American Civil Rights Leader

Sometimes we feel that we've got to climb a mountain or raise a
monument to leave our mark on the world. What we fail to recognize is
that often we make a difference simply by existing, by handling what
life gives us. Maybe the way we deal with our challenges and our
rewards inspires someone else to achieve worthwhile things in their
own life.

Blaine Lee
Inspirational Author and Speaker

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and
certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
-- Woody Allen

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
-- Henry Morgan

It is bad luck to be superstitious.
-- Andrew W. Mathis

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is
inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth
as toys.
-- Eric Hoffer

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see
nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them
when they are gone.
-- George Eliot

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and
manner of devotion.
-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive,
doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!
-- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,
Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

Perseverance does not equal worthiness.
-- Lawrence Kaplow, House M.D., Paternity, 2004

The time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to
reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry
forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation
to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free
and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.
President Barack Obama
44th President of the United States of America

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the
final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is
stronger than evil triumphant.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968
American Civil Rights Leader

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember
its details. Details are always vulgar.
-- Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one
friend that he is superior to the other.
-- Honore de Balzac

Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident,
you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of
bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.
-- Sharon Gold

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

Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less
time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time
and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment
just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the
results you need.
-- Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005

Success only hurts the first time.
-- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 04-01-2006

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will
always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste
the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
-- Edgar Watson Howe, 'Country Town Sayings,' 1911

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

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
-- Latin Proverb

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every
discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is
true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which
we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
-- John Keats

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
-- Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
-- Cullen Hightower

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
-- Peter De Vries

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when
focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is
ours: Which do we want more of?

Julia Cameron

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's
the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
-- Ernest Rutherford, in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at
Manchester" (1962)

I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds
like when spoken properly.
-- James Carr, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would
very soon lose the use of speech.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil, 1925

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
-- Mo Udall

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by
common hatred of its neighbors.
-- William Ralph Inge

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in
which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself
of almost all sense and meaning.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when
he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
-- Fred Allen

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-- Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable
with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is
whether you're comfortable with it.
-- Phillip C. McGraw, O Magazine, February 2003

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
-- Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog,
September 8, 2003

Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self,
right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come
back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame
because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on
your point of view.
-- Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde, Northern Exposure, Roots, 1991

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
-- Emily Dickinson

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they
should see twice as much as they say.
-- Charles Caleb Colton

It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
-- Susan Partnow

Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society
tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I
know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.
-- Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and
for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
-- W. C. Fields

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

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
-- Barbara Tober

Don't give up before the miracle happens.
Author Unknown
But Greatly Appreciated!

From the pain comes the dream.
From the dream comes the vision.
From the vision come the people.
From the people comes the power.
From this power comes the change.
Peter Gabriel
English Musician and Social Activist

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain

I never know how much of what I say is true.
-- Bette Midler

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-- Isaac Asimov

Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind,
and drink the universe
in a glass of rain.
Ihab Hassan

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
-- Eric Hoffer

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer
marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of
the music that springs up from within.
Anthony De Mello, 1931-1987

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you
hear bells, get your ears checked.
-- Erich Segal

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for
yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
-- Marva Collins

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries
about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
-- Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget,
is a necessary condition for our existence.
-- Sholem Asch

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and
what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people
he gave it to.
-- Dorothy Parker

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord,
make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
-- Voltaire

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
-- Joan Baez

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold
your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger
than you. You cannot defeat me.'
-- Ann Landers

There are really only two conditions of the human mind: Very, very
happy. Or, about to become very, very happy. Which are you today?
Mike Dooley
American Author and Inspirational Speaker

I am a deeply superficial person.
-- Andy Warhol

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961
(Clarke's third law)

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.
-- Paul Johnson

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good.
-- Samuel Johnson, (attributed; also attributed to Ann Landers)

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
-- Tom Robbins

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
-- George Burns

Invention is the mother of necessity.
-- Thorstein Veblen

Life isn't long enough for love and art.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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

We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first,
the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and
pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.
-- John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1880

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist,
it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing
standard of nonconformity.
-- Bill Vaughan

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
-- Frank Herbert

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

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged
lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
-- Nicholas Chamfort

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope
of new possibilities.
-- Jean Houston

The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity.
-- Elizabeth Stone

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

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying
to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
-- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but
also to hate his friends.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword

Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have
nudity and espionage.
-- Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, Unshelved, 09-14-08

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.
-- Elmer Davis

Respect a man, he will do the more.
-- James Howell

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

That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what
you thought it was going to look like.
-- Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Plus One Is The
Loneliest Number, 2002

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
-- Publilius Syrus

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

You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your
journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your
own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.
-- Vernon Howard

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly
extravagances of the poor.
-- William Feather

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
-- Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking

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

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all
things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be
artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
-- Shelley Winters

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total
dependence on the appreciation of others.
-- Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but
people can see your lips moving.
-- Penn Jillette

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
-- Dorothea Brande

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life.
Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on
regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life
in addition to the pain?
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with
the same person.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs
desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It
may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out
in a new direction. But at least you'll feel alive.
-- Meri Williams, Talent vs Desire, 05-29-06

Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?
-- Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
-- Frank Zappa

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and
(b) that is not true.
-- H. L. Mencken

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

What luck for rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf HitlerIt is better wither to be silent, or to say
things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than
an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a
great deal in a few.
-- Pythagoras

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

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the
rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly
incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of
memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is
sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so
bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond
control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of
recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and
words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
-- Florence Shinn

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
-- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
-- Kurdish Proverb

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that
you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without
this all other education is good for nothing.
-- R. D. Hitchcock

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.
-- Ward Cleaver

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
-- General Douglas MacArthur

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and
be silent.
-- Epictetus

Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
-- Japanese Proverb

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

Whenever you feel 'short' or in 'need' of something, give what you
want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a
smile, love and friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person
may want to do, but it has always worked for me. I just trust that the
principle of reciprocity is true, and I give what I want.
Robert T. Kiyosaki

The world belongs to the energetic.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

You don't have to die in order to make a living.
-- Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 10-14-05

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
judge us by what we have already done.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.
-- Anonymous, Graffito

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor
by taking up another.
-- Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of
temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is
not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy
you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can
pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
-- Robertson Davies

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs
to our ancestors.
-- Plutarch, 'Morals,' 100 A.D.

They can do all because they think they can.
-- Virgil

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the
consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this
axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had
damned well better take the action that would create it.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be
living apart.
-- e e cummings

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens
the frictions of social contacts.
-- Clare Booth Luce

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an
unprejudiced point of view.
-- Lillian Hellman

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
-- Isaac Newton

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

What's another word for Thesaurus?
-- Steven Wright

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
-- Dan Rather

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn
how to do it.
-- Pablo Picasso

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
-- Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier
than any body part.
-- Aimee Mullins, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.
-- Leontyne Price, O Magazine, December 2003

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health
is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
-- Ernest Hemingway

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities
without your help.
-- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.
-- Louis Vermeil

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called
electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been
drinking.
-- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw"

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a
symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward
of production.
-- Ayn Rand

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
-- The Dhammapada

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
-- Mother Teresa

He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.
-- Chinese Proverb

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
-- Dan Quayle, to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill
luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
-- Charles Baudelaire

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is
thought necessary.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor
judge of distance.
-- Laurence J. Peter

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas
I am merely in disguise.
-- Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, 1988

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps
forever talked to by God and his messengers.
-- Brenda Ueland

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek
them with our eyes open.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking
it is, you never look down.
-- Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
-- Fran Lebowitz

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-- Robert Frost

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
-- Albert Camus

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it
exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong
remedy.
-- Ernest Benn

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
-- Thomas Merton

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which
ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, 'The Dilbert Principle'

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity
have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation
resisted? What virtue acquired?
-- Seneca

Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on
a higher level as friends.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
-- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
-- Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle

A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
-- John Heywood

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
-- Elbert Hubbard

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
-- Helmuth von Moltke

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with
propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
-- Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.
Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly.
Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature.
Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you.
Take the power to make your life happy. This life is yours.

Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in an attractive and well-preserved body.
But rather to skid in sideways,
champagne in one hand,
strawberries in the other,
body thoroughly used up,
totally worn out and screaming
"Woohoo - What a ride!"

Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry.
Live simply, expect little, give much.
Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine.
Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by.
Its the way to happiness.

Where is it written that we should be so serious all the time? The God
who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked
squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of
humor. Make no mistake about that.
Catherine Marshall (Adapted)

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go.
-- Carol Burnett

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

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy
from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a
precedent that will reach to himself.
-- Thomas Paine

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
-- Aesop

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln

A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.
-- Leon Tec, M.D.

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a
smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.
-- Edward Clarke

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
-- Dr. Robert Schuller

The past is finished. There is nothing to b gained by going over it.
Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we
had to know.
-- Rebecca Beard

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off
one's own troubles.
-- Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to
continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already
said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, 'May I be in Thy
presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to
be in Thy presence.'

O. Hallesby, 1879-1961
Norwegian Pastor and Author

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three
unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience,
and the prudence never to practice either of them.
-- Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
-- William Jennings Bryan

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless,
but planning is indispensable.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
-- Soren Kierkegaard

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most
important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations
of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I am only here because
of you, you are all my reasons.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.
American Mathematician and Nobel Prize Winner

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't
require my presence.
-- Garry Trudeau

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has
behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
-- G. K. Chesterton, "Heretics", 1905

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,
stand like a rock.
-- Thomas Jefferson

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in
what direction you are moving.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their
sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
-- Sam Ewing

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if
you have any, will take care of itself.
-- Joseph Farrell

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a
relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a
little more sincere.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil, 1925

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget;
the wise forgive but do not forget.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"

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

Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way.
-- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed
Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
-- Erica Jong

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
-- Jacques Delille

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from
within - strength, courage, dignity.
-- Ruby Dee

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not on this earth for
eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand
and melting like a snowflake.
Marie Beynon Ray (Adapted)

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
-- William Blake

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except
wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the
grapes were good in the first place.
-- Abigail Van Buren, 1978

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way
we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely
convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them. Not
so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something
you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the
more heroic your faith.
-- Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
-- Dr. Seuss

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men
have mediocrity thrust upon them.
-- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
-- Bob Hope

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he
is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
-- Sidney J. Harris

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
-- Maurice Chevalier

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

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a
star gone wrong.
-- Sir Arthur Eddington

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must
certainly work for all they get.
-- Frederick Douglass

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know
they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
-- Nancy Spain

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

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize
psychic and emotional starvation.
-- Cherrie Moraga

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest
would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
-- John Quincy Adams

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort
searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only
in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you
cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
-- Og Mandino

Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go
do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
-- Howard Thurman

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
-- Lenin

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
-- Noel Coward

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

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
-- Lynda Barry

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for
others, sharing with others.
William Arthur Ward, 1921-1994

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends,
and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a
time.
-- Rebecca West

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
-- Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917

Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect
man commands all light, all influence, all fate.
-- John Fletcher, 1647

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.
-- Langston Coleman

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
-- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Dare to be yourself.
-- Andre Gide

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat,
plausible, and wrong.
-- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
-- Andy Gibb

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
-- Jerome K. Jerome, "Three Men in a Boat", 1889

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
-- Jimmy Buffett

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned
state from mere excess of comfort.
-- Charles Dickens

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it
over, he is superior.
-- Sir Francis Bacon

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second,
it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder,
spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
-- e e cummings

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
-- Margaret Mitchell

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone
is taking the time to plant some.
-- Herbert Rappaport

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
-- Noel Coward

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people
do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of
them.
-- P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)

Getting caught is the mother of invention.
-- Robert Byrne

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of
a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a
producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others
to live as one wishes to live.
-- Oscar Wilde

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always
declares that it is his duty.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) Act III

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
-- Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times

Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come
true unless man cooperates.
-- Stella Terrill Mann

Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.
-- Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004

There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to
sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about
it.
-- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,
Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

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

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
-- Thomas Neill

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
-- Aristotle

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we
have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think
about us.
-- Quentin Crisp

"You might be poor,
your shoes might be broken,
but your mind is a palace."

Frank McCourt


The takers are the people who believe their lives will always be the
total of what they can get from the world. They are always thinking
get, get, get. They plan and scheme ways to get what they want in
money, in love, in happiness, and in all kinds of good... but whatever
may be their spiritual ideals or lack of any, no matter what they
take, they can never know peace or security or fulfillment.

The givers, on the other hand, are convinced life is a giving process.
Thus their subtle motivation in all their ways is to give themselves
away, in love, in service, and in all the many helpful ways they can
invest themselves. They are always secure, for they intuitively know
that their good flows from within.

Eric Butterworth
(Let it flow... ;-)


"If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is
your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty,
your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that." -
Frances Hodgson Burnett

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to
listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give
each other is our attention. A loving silence often has far more power
to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of
by being busy.
-- Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling
influences of the world.
-- Thomas Guthrie

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh
together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker
and boss. They become a single group of human beings.
-- W. Lee Grant

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
-- Granville Hicks

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they
are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because
then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were
shot.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your
imperfections, that's their fault.
-- Dr. David M. Burns

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened
by doing it.
-- Robbie Gass

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but
they never break.
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.
-- Unknown

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
-- Thomas Hardy

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

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best
able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
-- Evelyn Underhill

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but
everybody does something about it.
-- Rebecca Johnson, in 'Vogue'

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching
the complaint a second time.
-- Honore de Balzac

I can resist anything but temptation.
-- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
-- Matthew Prior

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, April 2003

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
-- Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
-- Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's
chosen form.
-- Stephen Nachmanovitch

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of
paper from the state.
-- Kathleen Norris

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

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
-- Plato

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a
thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
-- Hagar the Horrible

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
-- Will Rogers

Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach
is aiming about 10 inches too high.
-- Adrienne E. Gusoff

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever
she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
-- Dorothy Parker, 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of
course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
-- Albert Einstein

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to
laugh at when you're old.
-- Edgar Watson Howe

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and
examine ourselves.
-- Confucius

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
-- Henny Youngman

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.
-- Willis Player

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy;
but after a war it seems more like astrology.
-- Rebecca West

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less
from wise guys.
-- William Arthur Ward

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question
mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
-- Bertrand Russell

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.
-- Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying
you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good.
Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you
don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have
difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the
situation, you will never really know if the situation should be
changed.
-- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second
half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
-- Johnny Carson

If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart
follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness
follows, as a shadow follows its source.
-- the Dhammapada

If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
-- Erica Jong

The greater man the greater courtesy.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Things are only impossible until they're not.
-- Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of
the beholder.
-- Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than
we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a
mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
-- Robertson Davies

Avoid those pretenders who decide for you; take the reins in your own
hands. You have to decide. In fact, in that very decisiveness, your
soul is born. When others decide for you, your soul remains asleep and
dull. When you start deciding on your own, a sharpness arises.

Osho, 1931-1990


Civilization is the encouragement of differences. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
-- Oscar Wilde

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
-- Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but
the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
-- Eric Hoffer

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where
anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
-- Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America (1936)

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
-- Mahatma Gandhi, 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919

So far I've done alright, God. I haven't gossiped, haven't lost my
temper, haven't been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish, or overindulgent.
I'm very happy about this. But in a few minutes, Lord, I'm going to
get out of bed. And from then on, I'm going to need a lot more help.

Author Unknown
But Greatly Appreciated!
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
-- Oscar Levant

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away
from those who are still undecided.
-- Casey Stengel

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
-- Cullen Hightower

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
-- Evan Esar

Man is what he believes.
-- Anton Chekhov

Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
-- Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
-- Amy Bloom

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
-- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
-- Russell Baker

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
-- Frank Tyger

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy
in the world.
-- Helen Keller

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

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that
matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a
human.
-- Ben Stein, E! Online, 12-20-03

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who
reads nothing but newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
-- Sir Francis Bacon

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
-- Og Mandino

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
-- Albert Camus, Happy Death

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers.
My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a
best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor

As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking
seems to be getting a hold of me.
-- H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

Remember that not always getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck.

Tenzin Gyatso
14th Dalai Lama


Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
-- Unknown

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
-- Charles F. Kettering

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
-- William Shakespeare, 'Measure for Measure'

If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here
right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's
not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while
you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your
having been there?
-- Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl, Northern Exposure, Soapy
Sanderson, 1990

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
-- Dick Werthimer

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
-- Karl Marx

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but
because people refuse to see it.

James Michener, 1907-1997

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.
There is a divine purpose behind everything — and therefore a divine
presence in everything.

Neale Donald Walsch
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
-- Shana Alexander

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-- Sir Francis Bacon

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it
for love of it.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637

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

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I
have of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive
the bastards.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their
capacity for experience.
-- James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue
is not hereditary.
-- Thomas Paine

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

The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome
and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is
having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the
wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, February 2004

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
-- Albert Camus

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted
forty-three years.
-- Cathy Ladman

I'm a jerk to everyone. Best way to protect yourself from lawsuits.
-- David Hoselton, House M.D., Guardian Angels, 2007

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd
never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be
cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the
time and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury
American Author


When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
-- Pierre Corneille

A good home must be made, not bought.
-- Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs"

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
-- William Henry Hudson, Afoot in England, 1909

I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
-- George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday,
April 13, 2004

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for
happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
-- Gustave Flaubert

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be
coming up it.
-- Henry Allen

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
-- Frank Zappa

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just
decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
-- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure,
Three Doctors, 1993

All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Indian Proverb

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
-- Andre Malraux

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

Desire, ask, believe, receive.
-- Stella Terrill Mann

I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have
left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.
-- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003

When you don't do anything about your own life.....then your life will
never change. So, when you want to make the world a better place, take
a look at yourself and then make that change.

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of
which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.
-- Lord Newborough, Motto

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.
-- Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a
situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
-- Kathleen Casey Theisen

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
-- Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)

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 write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of
spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I
spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
-- Beryl Pfizer

You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last
night, all those people were at my show.
-- Mitch Hedberg

I think that people are born mystics - we are all mystics as children,
but it's taken away from us as we grow older. It's taken away subtly
by education which trains the left brain and ignores the right brain.
They take away your crayons right when you need them most - at
puberty. When you should be getting to your cosmic soul they give you
football and shopping malls.

Matthew Fox
American Priest and Theologian
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
-- Jules Renard

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor
to understand him.
-- George Santayana

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
-- Melody Beattie

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

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life
stands explained.
-- Mark Twain

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on
no account be allowed to do the job.
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
-- Jules Renard

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
-- John Dewey

♫ "Ships are safest in the harbor but they are not meant to be there.
They have to sail long and hard and face stormy seas to reach the
comfort of a desirable destination"- N R Narayana Murthy, Co-Founder,
INFOSYS

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a
kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a
kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you
would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Lawrence G. Lovasik
American Priest, Missionary and Author

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your
misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary
[monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the
progress of science and of genius itself.
-- William Cobbett

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
-- Marlene Dietrich

There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending
your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to
say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I
can have it.'
-- Lee Iacocca

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

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.
That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
-- Jean Kerr

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor
will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
-- Sydney Smith

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

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that
correspond with them.
-- Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
-- John L. Motley

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance
to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
-- Thomas Moore

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
-- Lester B. Pearson

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we
learned the day before was wrong.
-- Bill Vaughan

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people
who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely
nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde

The future has a way of arriving unannounced
-- George Will

To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
-- J. H. Holmes

I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once] told me we're all on the
same planet, so I'll be okay!
-- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,
Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
-- Wernher von Braun

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.
-- Anonymous, Also used in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less
obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no
solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid.
There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no
straight lines.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
-- George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act I

A brave new world requires a brave new mind.
Author Unknown,But Greatly Appreciated!

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

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An
inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
-- G. K. Chesterton

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect
it.
-- Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
-- Pablo Picasso

When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently
against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the
distance assigned to each of us.
-- Alexis Carrel

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain
each day that Fortune grants.
-- Horace, Odes

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you
nothing. It was here first.
-- Mark Twain

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

God creates men, but they choose each other.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003

While we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism and
doubt and those who tell us we can't, we will respond with that
timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes We Can.
-Barack Obama
Life is a jest, and all things show it, / I thought so once, and now I
know it. -John Gay, poet and dramatist (1685-1732)

When we come to it
We must confess that we are the possible...
We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world
Free to choose our ends, and our new beginnings
That is when, and only when...
We come to it.

Maya Angelou
American Author, Poet and Actress

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
-- Ovid

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward.
Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can
fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some
of the ugliness in the world.
-- Goldie Hawn

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the
abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of
an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
-- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the
victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
-- Samuel Butler

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday.
-- Sir William Bragg

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
-- Tom Stoppard

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see
it, understand it, learn from it and change so that every new moment
is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger but in wisdom,
understanding and love.

Jennifer Edwards
American Author, Artist and Educator

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent
of the time.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...
-- Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

We are most alive when we're in love.
-- John Updike

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be
taken seriously.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

There are more of them than us.
-- Herb Caen

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if
you can stop people talking.
-- Clement Atlee

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but
never hit soft!
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
-- John Wesley

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work
absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
-- Sir William Osler, to his students

A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
-- Victor Borge

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to something until you get there.

At times its best to let things be the way they are !

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein, "Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be
entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne

Children are all foreigners.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules
of good grooming.
-- Don Delillo

Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has
never been set up in honor of a critic!
-- Jean Sibelius, quoted in Bengt de Torne "Sibelius: A
Close-Up" 1937

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
-- Colette, in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with
tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they
cannot find it.
-- Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

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'm of the mind that even people who have limitations, if they have a
curiosity, they will find a way to explore it.
-- Tish Grier

Diversity is the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other
races, other voices, other habits of mind, have as much integrity of
being, as much claim on the world as you do. And I urge you, amid all
the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create
the bond that... will protect us all. We are meant to be here
together.

William M. Chase, 1849-1916

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

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the
advent of commercial airlines.
-- Henry J. Tillman

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be
beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you
discover that there is no reason.
-- John Cage

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for
support is a bad war.
-- Norman Mailer, Armies Of The Night

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
-- Martha Graham

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
-- John Herschel

I shut my eyes in order to see.
-- Paul Gauguin

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in
everything that's necessary for believing in it.
-- Ugo Betti, Struggle Till Dawn

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
American Naturalist and Essayist

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

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very
simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
-- Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
-- Andre Gide

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break
your word or lose your self-respect.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is
absolutely fatal.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing
nearly everything, money is handy.
-- Groucho Marx

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience
and Laziness.
-- Franz Kafka

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-- Anais Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944

A finished person is a boring person.
-- Anna Quindlen

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to
diminishing returns.
-- John Maurice Clarke, Economist

Hardwork is like the stairs, Luck is like a lift. Lift may fail
sometimes, But whatever may be the occasion, Stairs will always get
you to the top. Luck might help you once, Hardwork helps always..

Step number one for changing the entire world, is falling in love with
it as it already is. The same is true for changing yourself.
Mike Dooley

Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
-- William Feather

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff
life is made of.
-- Benjamin Franklin, 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989

Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of
the needs of others in your family.
-- Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 10-06-05

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

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still
exist, but you have ceased to live.
-- Mark Twain

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if
you really make them think, they'll hate you.
-- Don Marquis

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
-- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't
define them, or even seriously consider them as believable or
achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan
to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Waitley
American Author and Motivational Speaker
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

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can
be you as efficiently as you can.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others.
-- John Andrew Holmes

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the
past, only far more expensive.
-- John Sladek

I may be a little bubble of water and you may be a mountain-high wave,
but the infinite ocean of strength is the background of me as well as
you!

♫ Women want one man to meet every need; men want every woman to meet one need.
A son is a son, till he gets himself a wife. But a daughter is a
daughter, all her life!!!!

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
-- Jeff Marder

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants
another one which will last forever.
-- Anatole France

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.
-- Marlo Thomas

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort.
-- Herm Albright

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
-- Dorothy Parker

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal
Experience, 1990

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides
into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily
as a star.
-- Edward Chapin

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.
-- Kurt Cobain

We can be told the truth about many things but they do not have any
value until we realize them by ourselves. There are no shortcuts. Each
step of the way has to be walked

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
-- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.
-- C. Kent Wright

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've
imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be
simpler.
-- Henry David Thoreau

You can cover a great deal of country in books.
-- Andrew Lang

Silence is more musical than any song.
-- Christina Rossetti

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
-- Pierre Corneille, 'The Cid,' 1636

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
-- George Burns

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions,
never know too much to learn something new.
-- Og Mandino

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
-- James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937

He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.
-- Unknown

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
-- Hob Broun

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as
easily as we open and shut our eyes!
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the
success of others.
-- Jules Renard