Gayathri's Quote Bank - Vol. 2! :)

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
-- Blaise Pascal

This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to
improve your work.
-- Bette Davis

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
-- Joseph Conrad

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't
cross a chasm in two small jumps.
-- David Lloyd George

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-- John Barrymore

He who hesitates is a damned fool.
-- Mae West

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

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

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will
believe what they see.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds
everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to
everything.
-- Johann K. Lavater

When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that
person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.
-- Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around
beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable,
precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these
qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your
essential being.
-- Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise
as a man's head.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say,
'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
-- Frederick L Collins

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel
libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans
themselves.
-- Albert Einstein

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
-- Woodrow Wilson

I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man.
It is us. -Konrad Lorenz, ethologist, Nobel laureate (1903-1989)

I improve on misquotation.
-- Cary Grant

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
-- George Jackson

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men
alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
-- Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, 1911

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
-- M. C. Richards

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they
enkindle and melt the soul.
-- Saint Teresa of Avila

If you observe a really happy man, you will find... that he is happy
in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.
-- W. Beran Wolfe

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels,
throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret
distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor
the soul act with cheerfulness.
-- Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
-- Frances Willard

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
-- Plutarch

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because
they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses,
because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and
gratefulness.
-- Ellen Goodman

"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person
in the world." - Emmet Fox

We don't need more money, we don't need greater success or fame, we
don't need the perfect body or even the perfect mate. Right now, at
this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we
need to achieve complete happiness." - Dalai Lama

No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways
to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more
productive.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious
men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
-- Joseph Addison, 'Cato'

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
-- Nikolai Gogol, 1836

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
-- Robin Norwood

And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.
-- Stan Dunn

Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.
-- Blore's Razor

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions,
including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
-- Doug Larson

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

A full cup must be carried steadily.
-- English Proverb

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

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do
something that makes you feel insecure.
-- Piero Ferrucci

As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or
produce disease in yourself.
-- Adelle Davis

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

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
-- Emo Phillips

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
-- David T. Wolf

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough
about what's really going on to be scared.
-- P. J. Plauger, Computer Language, March 1983


Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
-- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
-- Matthew Arnold, 'God and the Bible,' 1875

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and
beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing
package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of
surprises. Some good. Some bad.
-- Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

A little drama wins more friends than boring.
-- Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour, 2004

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
-- William Shakespeare

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
-- Oscar Wilde

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for
words are slippery and thought is viscous.
-- Henry Adams

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

The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind
across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.
Dan Millman

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

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

The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This
is true even after you’ve 'made it'.
-- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 31. Remain Frugal., 08-22-04

Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a
tenderness in one's spirit.
-- McCallister Dodds

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man
intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
-- Ezra Pound

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never
report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some
other to conceal it.
-- William Penn

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know
how to laugh either.
-- Golda Meir

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
-- Robert Bresson

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
-- Evan Davis

Everything you can imagine is real.
-- Pablo Picasso

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
-- Gian Vincenzo Gravina

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than
they are about being thought unjust.
-- E. B. White

Silence is the severest criticism. -Charles Buxton, brewer,
philanthropist, writer and politician (1823-1871)

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
-- Jonathan Winters

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that
what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
-- Orson Welles

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them
deliberately.
-- Michel de Montaigne

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
-- Irv Kupcinet

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

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

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
-- John Ruskin

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
-- Henry David Thoreau

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real
limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
-- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without
Thinking, 2005

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add
to the sum of accurate information in the world.
-- Margaret Mead

Only fools are positive.
-- Moe Howard

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
-- Groucho Marx

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have
been not to have taken it.
-- Laurence J. Peter

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot. -Francis Bacon, essayist,
philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a
success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got
to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't
be there.
-- Irving Berlin, 1958

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
-- George Sheehan

Never regret something that once made you smile.
-- Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide

Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your
fault unless you also believe you're all powerful.
-- Matt Witten, House M.D., Humpty Dumpty, 2005

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the
neighbors will say.
-- Cyril Connolly

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
-- Laurence J. Peter

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little
while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing
whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give
reasons why we believe.
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
-- 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

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

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to
laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"

Children are all foreigners.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
-- Al Boliska

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character
attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
-- Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"

Living hell is the best revenge.
-- Adrienne E. Gusoff

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh
and blood tomorrow.
-- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
-- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.
-- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, 1999

Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people
go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your
heart and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.
-- Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul. -Henry Theodore Tuckerman,
author and critic (1813-1871)

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
-- Madonna

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are
his sincere friend.
-- Abraham Lincoln

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

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.
-- Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to
achieve it through not dying.
-- Woody Allen

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel
myself infinitely the happier for it.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
-- George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only
animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and
what they ought to be.
-- William Hazlitt

We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when
good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies
except in an extreme necessity.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about
oneself is something very different: it is character.
-- Marie Leneru, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults,
they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants
stomping, “Aarggh! Screwed up again!” Fortunately, babies are free of
self-criticism. They just keep practicing.
Dan Millman

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he
is born. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and
physician (1809-1894)

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.'
We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the
ground.
-- Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
-- Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not
be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable
time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions
placed upon it.
-- Gloria Swanson

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your
position falls, your ego goes with it.
-- Colin Powell

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Joe Sabah

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It
is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Charles Morgan

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American
life. Violence and committee meetings.
-- George F. Will

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
-- Frank Leahy

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist
pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
-- Nancy Astor

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he
was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement
by examining his wives' mouths.
-- Bertrand Russell, Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those
who dream only by night.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
-- O. Henry

"Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars... or your two
legs... or your hands... or your hearing? Add up what you have, and
you'll find that you wouldn't sell it all for all the gold in the
world." - Dale Carnegie

Doing things for others always pays dividends. When you help someone's
boat across a river, you'll find your own boat has reached the shore
too. - Author Unknown

The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest
teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and
never worries.
Hua Hu Ching

"You don't need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just
need to live it." - Alan Cohen

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
-- Mark Twain

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
-- Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and
that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen William Hawking

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can
alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
-- William James

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely
improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future,
without fear.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out
with twenty-eight years ago.
-- Will Rogers

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

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
-- Margaret Millar

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job
depends on not understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclair

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before
starting to improve the world.
-- Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast;
hold out. Patience is genius.
-- Comte de Buffon

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
-- Wallace Stevens

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
-- Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed
legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five
minutes.
-- Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984

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

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -
namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only
necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
-- Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2

If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words,
'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult
to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.
-- Eddie Izzard, Dress To Kill

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born?
Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think
about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
Richard Bach

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing
something to be happy.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good
is ever done in this world by hesitation.
-- Thomas H. Huxley

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse,
but to weigh and consider.
-- Sir Francis Bacon

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good
character help having a disagreeable face?
-- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense
and aggravation later in life.
-- Robert Byrne

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he
would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
-- Dave Barry

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry

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

When you stumble... make it part of the dance.
Author Unknown, But Very Much Appreciated!

"You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is not lying
there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a
little bit and find it. It is not there like a rock that you will
find. It is a poetry to be composed, it is a song to be sung, it is a
dance to be danced." - Osho

A woman whom we truly love is a religion. -Emile de Girardin,
journalist and politician (1802-1881)

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing
the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of
fear of the people's wrath.
-- Kahlil Gibran, 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives,'
Thoughts and Meditations, 1960

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something
must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

I row after health like a waterman...
-- Jonathan Swift

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy
develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
-- Robert Sternberg

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual
certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I
became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can
meet girls.
-- M. Cartmill

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a book review

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
-- Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
-- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
-- Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I
don't know which half.
-- John Wanamaker

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. -Bonnie
Friedman, author (b. 1958)

Happiness doesn't come..as a result of getting something we don't have,
But it rather comes..by recognizing and appreciating all that we have.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
-- Archimedes, 300 B.C.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking
ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
-- Vaclav Havel

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.
-- David Smith

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

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground
whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value
of Scepticism"

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never
think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
-- Anthony Trollope

When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects
this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
-- Shakti Gawain

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that
eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the
earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal
cold.
-- Archibald MacLeish

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial
Revolution.
-- David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
-- Nick Diamos

I'm a born-again atheist.
-- Gore Vidal

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
-- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line

If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being
controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is
finally starting to work.
-- John Alejandro King, My War On Terror!

Great love and great achievements involve great risks.
When you lose, dont lose the lesson.
Follow the three R's: Respect for self, Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful
stroke of luck.
Learn the rules, so you know how to break them properly.
Dont let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
When you realize you made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend sometime alone every day.
Open your arms to challenges, but dont give up your values.
Sometimes, silence is the best answer.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each
other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
- Dalai Lama.

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

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing.
Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be
possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it
you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will
find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good
reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
-- Socrates

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
-- Dorothy Bernard

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
-- Jose Marti

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material
shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive
bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."
-- H. E. Martz

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

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
-- A. J. Liebling

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind; but now in my
age I think I should write an apology for them. -Horace Walpole,
novelist and essayist (1717-1797)

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much
extinguishes it.
-Hanah More, writer (1745-1833)

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the
artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
-- Isak Dineson, 'Babette's Feast'

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
-- Josh Billings

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can
survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even
alone in genders.
-- Maya Angelou

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

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth.
-- Umberto Eco

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
-- Jim Horning

“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world
filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled
with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with
distrust, we must still dare to believe.” - Michael Jackson

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life.”
- Michael Jackson

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this
world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be
dealt with.” - Michael Jackson

“I’m never pleased with anything, I’m a perfectionist, it’s part of
who I am.” - Michael Jackson

Solitude has but one disadvantage; it is apt to give one too high an
opinion of one's self. In the world we are sure to be often reminded
of every known or supposed defect we may have. -Lord Byron, poet
(1788-1824)

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with
your superiors.
-- Jewish Proverb

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in
a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than
others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched
in my mind.
-- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

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

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
-- Ed Gardner

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who
not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
-- Ted Morgan

If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot
faster with two people digging.
-- Joe Martin, Mister Boffo

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most
revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
-- George C. Marshall

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman

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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is
appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
-- Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869

The only cure for grief is action.
-- George Henry Lewes

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon
as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with
too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed)

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it
sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own
opportunities, but its own talents.
-- Eric Hoffer

A happy man is happy not because everything is right in his life; He
is happy because he does all things in his life right.

"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to
walk on the earth."
-- Chinese Proverb.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have
the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own
admission. The admitting, however, can be very difficult for some.
Julia Cameron (Adapted)

Remember This One?
"There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes,
I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box
away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're
still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of
the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the
line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's
where courage comes in." - Erma Louise Bombeck


Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's
inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. -Reinhold Niebuhr,
theologian (1892-1971)

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The
radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative
adopts them.
-- Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.
-- Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other
person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal
attacks.
-- Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
-- Nancy Reagan

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
-- Sinclair Lewis

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

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain
occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
-- Thomas Jefferson

I would prefer to be a honest failure, than to be a corrupt success.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
-- Saki, "The Square Egg", 1924

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
-- Mark Twain, in Christian Science

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the
private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
-- Penn Jillette, in a Compuserve chat

All things are difficult before they are easy.
-- Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
-- George Eliot

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work
hard at work worth doing.
-- Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in New York, September 7, 1903

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Journal, July 25, 1839

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
-- George S. Patton

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the
inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind
unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true
maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'
So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him
that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that
catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to
his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble
in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause
is really a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite
chair and stays as long as it wants.
-- Stephen King, "Hearts in Atlantis"

But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward
motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.
-- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
-- Peter De Vries

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

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
-- Gerald R. Ford

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and
showing it to them!
-- Amy Tan

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
-- Deepak Chopra

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
-- Jean Anouilh

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few
pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
-- Douglas Adams

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
-- Johann von Neumann

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they
come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance"

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
-- Albert Camus

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your
fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically,
make you a far happier and more productive person.
-- Dr. David M. Burns

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be
tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
-- James Lane Allen

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
-- Robert Byrne

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
-- Tom Stoppard, Jumpers (1972) act 1

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

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it
first and getting it right.
-- Ellen Goodman

Success is not defined by obtaining everything you want, but by
enjoying and appreciating everything you want.
Learn to enjoy what you have.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in
you, do not look for any other standard to judge it by: the work is
good, the product of a master craftsman.
Jean de La Bruyere,

A good listener helps us overhear ourselves. -Yahia Lababidi, author (b. 1973)

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

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we
ought to know a little about everything.
-- Blaise Pascal

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to
be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
-- George Bernard Shaw, "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in
and out of favor.
-- Robert Frost, The Black Cottage

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
-- W. Somerset Maugham

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what
he becomes by it.
-- John Ruskin

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
-- Cecil B. DeMille

Mighty hard to tell the people you love you’re a failure.
-- Laura Moncur, Merriton, 11-28-07

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a
superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)

By the work one knows the workmen.
-- Jean De La Fontaine

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
-- Victoria Holt

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love
just the same.
-- Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and
find your liberty.
-- Frank Herbert, Dune

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to
have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context --
no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
-- Carl Sagan

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed
me a lot of money.'
-- Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on
the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
-- Harry S Truman

Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it.
Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.
-- John Le Carre, Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy"

In summer, the song sings itself.
-- William Carlos Williams

He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which
he loves it.
-- Heather Armstrong, Dooce Plugs In, 07-12-06

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread
which is not there.
-- E. H. Gombrich

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

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's
inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. -Reinhold Niebuhr,
theologian (1892-1971)

"I never said most of the things I said

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being
careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
-- Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography, 1937

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we
want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have
to face rejection.
-- Farrah Gray

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order
to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
-- Sydney Smith

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been
much of a day.
-- John A. Wheeler

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
-- Edith Sitwell

Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally
different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes,
there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the
top surface one. Like with pie.
-- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed
Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't
original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That
he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He
has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness
of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the
courage to do it.
-- Helen Hayes, in Roy Newquist, Showcase, 1966

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is
possible - not to have run away.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, September 2003

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
-- Fulton J. Sheen

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly, "Pogo" (comic strip)

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
-- Solomon Short

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

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
-- Samuel Butler

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are
going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book
about it.
-- Lord Brabazon

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

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
-- Unknown

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the
fault finders.
-- Foster's Law

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good
poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few
reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness
of character.
-- Grenville Kleiser

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky
they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always
somebody there, somebody that's family.
-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Cat Orgy, 1999

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our
affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and
to be hurt, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.

J. E. Buchrose

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton, author (1803-1873)

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
-- Robert Half

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and
there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can
judge of.
-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a
group decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen

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

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

A dog teaches us a lot of things, but we never seem to take notice.
These are some
of the lessons you might learn…

· When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.
· Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride.
· Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face
to be pure ecstasy.
· When it’s in your best interest, practice obedience.
· Let others know when they’ve invaded your territory.
· Take naps and stretch before rising.
· Run romp and play daily.
· Thrive on attention and let people touch you.
· Avoid biting, when a simple growl will do.
· On warm days stop to lie on your back on the grass. On hot
days drink lots of water and lay under a shady tree.
· When you’re happy dance around and wag your entire body.
· No matter how often you’re scolded don’t buy into the guilt
thing and pout. Run right back and make friends.
· Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.
· Eat with gusto and enthusiasm, stop when you have had enough.
· Be loyal.
· Never pretend to be something you’re not.
· If what you want lies buried dig until you find it.
· When someone is having a bad day be silent, sit close by…
and nuzzle them gently.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should
walk with me than merely tell the way. -
Edgar Guest, poet (1881-1959)

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't
have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch

Reality is something you rise above.
-- Liza Minnelli

I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
-- Rodney Dangerfield

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

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more
graceful to appear favored by the gods.
-- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976

In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or
for what we did with it.
-- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 06-29-06

We don't always get to choose what we love.
-- Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006

Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is
simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by
trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other
form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow
to disappear, you must shine light on it. -Shakti Gawain, teacher and
author (b. 1948)

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess
courage and act accordingly.
-- Corra Harris

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going
too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
-- Eddie Cantor

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning
out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
-- Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
-- W. C. Fields

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
-- Isaac Asimov

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you
looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing
that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot
possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to
get at or repair.
-- Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant,
amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, and dignified as a king.
Immersed in wonder, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and
when death comes, you are ready.
Lao Tzu (Adapted)
Ancient Chinese Philosopher

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
-Gerry Spence, lawyer (b. 1929)

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not,
gives advantage to the danger.
-- Francis Quarles

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it
could be turned into momentum.
-- Frances Willard

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
-- Booker T. Washington

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

The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
-- Alex Levin

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know
how bad I am.
-- Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson

There are more fools in the world than there are people.
-- Heinrich Heine

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

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
-- Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
-- H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Life is consciousness.
-- Emmet Fox


I am no more humble than my talents require.
-- Oscar Levant

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had
to worry about where the next meal would come from.
-- Peter Drucker

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-- George Carlin

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
-- Antisthenes

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to
make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him
untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
-- Henry L. Stimson

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
-- Claude M. Bristol

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
-- Michael Jordan

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930

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

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who
want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't
have the time to read reviews.
-- William Faulkner

Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
-- Gertrude Stein

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
-- Margaret Fuller

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

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

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that
we ought to control our thoughts.
-- Charles Darwin

Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work
in the Post Office.
-- Adrienne E. Gusoff

If there were in the world today any large number of people who
desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of
others, we could have paradise in a few years.
-- Bertrand Russell

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile.
The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse
resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
-- Aleister Crowley

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

We cannot give what we do not have. We cannot bring peace to the world
if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if
we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others
lies not in what we have but in who we are.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
-- Horace

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you,
say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
-- D. H. Lawrence

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
-- Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must
never, ever be boring.
-- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters, 1999

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would
come into my neighborhood after dark.
-- Dick Gregory

I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been
told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman
getting ready to arrest her.
-- New York City detective

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents'
shortcomings.
-- Laurence J. Peter

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are
identical whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz

If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through
the dust no matter how thick.
-- Bob Dylan

If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to
enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or
trust me, you haven't a chance.
-- W. S. Gilbert

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
-- Lord Chesterfield

I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.
-- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
-- Dan Quayle, 5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
-- Jane Wagner

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a
masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to
know it, to realize it.
Osho, 1931-1990

In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it
won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is
always returned. With interest.
Mike Dooley

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really
hates that!
-- Matt Frewer, as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
-- Walter Lippmann

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

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much
liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791

Worries go down better with soup than without.
-- Jewish Proverb

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
-- Walt Whitman

The wise man will love; all others will desire.
Lucius Afranius (1st Century B.C.)
Roman Poet and Playwright
(So much truth in so few words.)

"I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this?
Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I
will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for
it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way;
yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome
happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it
opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I
will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge." - Og Mandino

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners
than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
-Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (1741-1794)

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

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too
confident security.
-- Edmund Burke

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
-- Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as
somewhat of a recluse.
-- Emily Dickinson

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
-- Unknown

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
-- Robert Frost

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
-- Samuel Goldwyn

Live forever or die in the attempt.
-- Joseph Heller, Catch 22

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-- Mark Twain

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
-- Steve Martin

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are
accomplished by diligence and labor.
-- Menander

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing:
no one to blame.
-- Erica Jong

You don’t need to win every medal to be successful.
-- Jason Fried, Signal Vs. Noise, 08-22-06

Art has never been made while thinking of art.
-- Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give
clearer light as to what is best to be done.
-- Aaron Burr

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone
does not know everyone else.
-- Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-- Plato

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be
easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your
pleasure.
-- Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006

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

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he
hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
-- Otto von Bismarck

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they
have to say something.
-- Plato

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some
reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing"

Once upon a time, there was a very busy girl. She lived with a tired
yet hopeful soul. Then, one day, her soul asked her to stop... and
just breathe. And so she did. And the girl and her soul lived happily
ever after.
Author Unknown, but greatly appreciated! :)

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

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

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of
the human bladder.
-- Alfred Hitchcock, In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)

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

Dare to be yourself.
-- Andre Gide

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
-- Helen Keller

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
-- Aprocrypha

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
-- Ronald Reagan, quoted in Observer, March 29 1981

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
-- Rita Mae Brown

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
-- James Thurber

The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable
seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright
and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I
maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic,
there is always a tomorrow. Today I am blessed.
Maya Angelou
American Author, Poet and Actress

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
-- Theophrastus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent
Philosophers

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
-- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and
not giving it.
-- William Arthur Ward

Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will
benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in
marriage.
-- Muriel Fox

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
-- Bulgarian Proverb

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind
for revealing them to the trees.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
-- Jules de Gaultier

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible
worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it
is largely a waste of time.
-- H. L. Mencken

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
-- Laurence J. Peter


All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should
learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest -
never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and
brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
-- Ann Landers

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the
full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do
not run away from life.
-- Paul Tournier

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your
goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look...
I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your
everyday life does start to become...familiar.
-- David Assael, Northern Exposure, Russian Flu, 1990

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for
Revolutionists"

The future will be better tomorrow.
-- Dan Quayle

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from
one graveyard to another.
-- J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England", 1945

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't
intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
-- Buzz Aldrin

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving
to life and wealth and power. -Buddha (c. 563-483 BCE)

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
-- Robert Byrne

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value
of nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

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

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get
them right, or they will get you wrong.
-- Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.
-- Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984

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

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then
they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you
can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
-- Tony Benn

You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a
bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to
make today worth remembering.
-- Meredith Willson, The Music Man

If I wait to be perfect before I love myself, I will always be
unsatisfied and ungrateful
If I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear,
I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used
Joyce Rupp

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will
pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
-St. Augustine (354-430)

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very
little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly
appreciated.
-- Baltasar Gracian

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore
avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
-- Socrates

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness
which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was
hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach
us the real value of a job.
-- Victor Hugo

My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know
what you're gonna get.
-- Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
-- Gracie Allen

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
-- Ray Bradbury, advice to writers

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
-- Cecil Baxter

'Heaven on Earth' is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer, American Author and Inspirational Speaker

A smiling face is half the meal.
-- Latvian Proverb

Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
-- Jacqueline Cochran

Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet
still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away,
to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.
-- Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous
if you earn no money.
-- Jules Renard

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
-- Unknown

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
-- John W. Gardner

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level
of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
-- Gustave Flaubert

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself.
This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
-- Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has
strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must
come, the world must roll forward.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons,
November 29, 1944

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If
you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?
-- Shantideva

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
-- Vidal Sassoon

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our
real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun
our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The
impeded stream is the one that sings.

Wendell Berry
American Author, Poet and Farmer

Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were
all the world watching. -Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist
(1613-1680)

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a
happy state in this world.
-- John Locke

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
-- Agnes Repplier

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it
is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
-- Daniel Webster

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an
occasional animal, and the common cold.
-- Ogden Nash

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you
would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If
you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
-- Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of
tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
-- Ralph W. Sockman

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
-- Benjamin Franklin

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986

Nothing’s better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you,
and your friends beside you.
-- Aaron Douglas Trimble

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

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.
-- Joseph Addison

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
-- Jerome K. Jerome

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
-- Jimmy Demaret

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of
marrying the whole girl.
-- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
-- Edmund Burke

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do
something about its width and depth.
-- Evan Esar

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that
some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning,
middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking
the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to
happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
-- Gilda Radner

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
-- Margaret Peters

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of
a sense of humor.
-- Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
-- Mark Twain

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

Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.
-- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of
silence to dissipate.
-- Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
-- Mark Twain

The reverse side also has a reverse side.
-- Japanese Proverb

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their
common sense.
-- Gertrude Stein

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

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has
nobody to thank.
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up.
Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own
destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do,
and say.

Keith Ellis
Inspirational Author and Speaker

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he
exercises over himself.
-- Elie Wiesel

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
-- Confucius

It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.
-- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata,
Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
-- Peter Sellers

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
-- Segal's Law

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a
circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and
that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well
trained.
-- Edward R. Murrow

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what
we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
-- Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4

You’re really something, do you know that? And in spite of whatever
may happen in your day, you are going to stay that way: trying and
giving and living life in the best way you know how. So keep your
spirits up, and keep things in perspective. It’s going to be okay.

Ceal Carson

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve
that either.
-- Jack Benny

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

People find life entirely too time-consuming.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will
have to ram it down their throats.
-- Howard Aiken

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
-- Lee Iacocca

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard
it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a
millionaire intent on going broke.
-- Brendan Francis

Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh
so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend
pleasant.
-- Mary Chase, Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in "Harvey", 1950

Dig where the gold is…unless you just need some exercise.
-- John M. Capozzi, Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You
Can Take the Elevator?

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

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you
do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.
-- Jeff Foxworthy

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

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
-- Franklin P. Adams

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
-- Rita Rudner

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point
out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a
half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
-- Neil Gaiman, Sandman

Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as
if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

Eckhart Tolle
German Author and Spiritual Teacher

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
-- Seneca, 'Hercules Furens,' 100 A.D.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is
to grow strong by conflict.
-- William Ellery Channing

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
-- Voltaire

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life
it may occur.
-- Muriel Spark

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
-- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus
operandi and change your world.
-- Annie Lennox

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

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

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
-- Marquis de Vauvenargues

Every smile makes you a day younger.
Chinese Proverb

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not
they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's
business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself
will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

Thomas Merton, 1915-1968
Trappist Monk, Author, Poet and Social Activist
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know
whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
-- Theodore Roosevelt

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to
say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
-- George Bernard Shaw, "Answers to Nine Questions"

We are the people our parents warned us about.
-- Jimmy Buffett
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
-- Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do
nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as
you plan or hope for.
-- Dan Millman

If you get up in the morning expecting to have a bad day, you'll
rarely disappoint yourself.

Dr. Wayne Dyer